Does Al really end up without his body in the original plot (only watched the live action)? That was so frustrating!…
Sorry for the late response, it's been a while since I last had to update my list. Anyway, now on to the question. Depends on which version you watch the plot changes, but yes, he does, it's basically when the story ends as it's always the ultimate objective for Ed.
Awful. Adaptations are hard to make and it's understandable that they have to cut stuff off since you can't make a 27 volumen manga into a 2 hour movie, but this time the result it's simply terrible. There's no consistency, they start using the kids for the initial human transmutation scene but then when going back to it they use the full grown actor for Ed (and yes, one of those scenes is a dream, but at other times it isn't), they heavily based everything on the first 3-4 volumes of the manga, then took a couple bits from 10 volumes later, changed some characters (others simply don't exist, like Scar) and called it a day. Then there's also the need to put Winry everywhere. I guess they paid Honda Tsubasa a lot but most of the time she's just there for the sake of being onscreen.
The music is nowhere close to being anything sort of appropiate, it's so generic that there's nothing worth remembering, unlike the anime shows which have awesome tracks. Check out "Brothers".
The acting is quite plain, even by japanese standards, there's no feeling to it. Hughes dead means nothing to everyone when it's supposed to be an event that leaves a heavy impression during the whole manga.
Overall there lacks tons of stuff, such as the character backgrounds, and some is just added for no reason (why use the term sacrifice when refering to Ed if you are never gonna explain it? Why keep the whole "the country is a huge transmutation circle" plot if you are never gonna explain it? )As far as I know there's not gonna be a second movie to explain some of this, so introducing all that was a poor decision that simply confuses the viewer.
Never expected much and that's what I got. I got into FMA back with the 2003 anime, which I love with it's own original plot so I wasn't expecting a 1:1 version of the manga and I was willing to welcome something original, but this LA is almost as bad as the one based of Mitsuru Adachi's manga Rough, which to me is the epitome of how not to do a LA.
It was made by Sion Sono, so expect something that came out of this genious' mind (no sarcasm whatsoever, he truly is a genious).
A great show, but it feels that the Dorama24 format was not enough, so the special and the movie have to be seen to get it all, as it's also part of the story.
Depends on which version you watch the plot changes, but yes, he does, it's basically when the story ends as it's always the ultimate objective for Ed.
Adaptations are hard to make and it's understandable that they have to cut stuff off since you can't make a 27 volumen manga into a 2 hour movie, but this time the result it's simply terrible.
There's no consistency, they start using the kids for the initial human transmutation scene but then when going back to it they use the full grown actor for Ed (and yes, one of those scenes is a dream, but at other times it isn't), they heavily based everything on the first 3-4 volumes of the manga, then took a couple bits from 10 volumes later, changed some characters (others simply don't exist, like Scar) and called it a day. Then there's also the need to put Winry everywhere. I guess they paid Honda Tsubasa a lot but most of the time she's just there for the sake of being onscreen.
The music is nowhere close to being anything sort of appropiate, it's so generic that there's nothing worth remembering, unlike the anime shows which have awesome tracks. Check out "Brothers".
The acting is quite plain, even by japanese standards, there's no feeling to it. Hughes dead means nothing to everyone when it's supposed to be an event that leaves a heavy impression during the whole manga.
Overall there lacks tons of stuff, such as the character backgrounds, and some is just added for no reason (why use the term sacrifice when refering to Ed if you are never gonna explain it? Why keep the whole "the country is a huge transmutation circle" plot if you are never gonna explain it? )As far as I know there's not gonna be a second movie to explain some of this, so introducing all that was a poor decision that simply confuses the viewer.
Never expected much and that's what I got.
I got into FMA back with the 2003 anime, which I love with it's own original plot so I wasn't expecting a 1:1 version of the manga and I was willing to welcome something original, but this LA is almost as bad as the one based of Mitsuru Adachi's manga Rough, which to me is the epitome of how not to do a LA.
tl;dr Don't watch it, not worth it.
A great show, but it feels that the Dorama24 format was not enough, so the special and the movie have to be seen to get it all, as it's also part of the story.