So, Full Metal Alchemist is ending up on regular bestseller lists. I don’t have my copy yet, but I did order it. I’m curious to see how similar the original manga is to the anime adaptation.
What is up with CMX? The editor resigned, and many people view it as a nonentity in the manga publishing field. I’ve given a few CMX titles a try, and some of the things like poor cover design and paper that feels icky do bug me a little. The only title that I’ve stuck with past one issue is Land of the Blindfolded. At first I thought with titles like Swan and From Eroica With Love CMX was going to carve out a niche by printing manga from previous decades. Man, I’d love it if someone decided to publish Rose of Versailles. But even Land of the Blindfolded is starting to make me a bit weary, as some of the plot elements that I thought were signaling an ongoing storyline that were present in volume 2 weren’t developed in volume 3. I’m not dropping it yet, but some of the potential that I saw in volume 1 isn’t being developed.
7:53 pm on May 11th, 2005 1
Huh, so they’re making a manga based on the series, eh? Usually it’s the other way around, isn’t it? Hm, do let us know what it’s like!
8:00 pm on May 11th, 2005 2
Actually, I think my original post was unclear (I just edited it) - I’m pretty sure the manga was the original source material.
The few times I’ve read manga adaptations of anime (Escaflowne, RahXephon), I haven’t liked it that much.
9:37 am on May 12th, 2005 3
Good evening, I am anime fan of Japan.
The thing when I know the difference between the comic and anime of Full Metal Alchemist is written.
A rough setting has the difference by neither anime nor the comic.
However, there is a setting in the comic without for anime to end the talk.
Neither the comic nor anime change into the purpose to regain the body lost due to the failure of Nena of the human body.
As for Homuncls, one is.
Homuncls appears from miss being able to do fail in Nena of the human body in anime in the comic though a certain alchemist is production artificial man who began to see.
Moreover, the purpose of Homuncls is also different in the comic and anime.
In anime, Homuncls moves to make “Philosopher’s stone” made.
In the comic, the purpose has not been understood yet. (Though the alchemist to make it to the sacrifice of the ceremony of something seems to be looked for. )
What I know is this though it doesn’t understand whether to transmit correctly because the translation machine is used.
see you!
6:45 pm on May 13th, 2005 4
I wish I understood that last comment better–it sounded like it would’ve been interesting. Anyhoo, good to know that FMA was a manga first–it seems most anime are like that, and people always do complain how animes don’t live up to their manga predecessors most of the time. I guess Samurai Deeper Kyo was one that a lot of people felt really fell short. Since I watch animes more than read manga, I guess I can remain blissfully ignorant
9:39 am on May 16th, 2005 5
There is a thing often said when manga is made anime.
“Are neither manga nor the story different?”
“It is interesting if it makes it to the same story as manga. ”
There are some works by which my favorite manga becomes anime.
I also have the thing that such an idea goes out.
However, there is a thing that the story in manga without is in anime.
Thus, I think that there is the enjoyment different from manga in anime.
I am in making the content of manga anime as it is also a good point, and think that there is a bad point, too.
A good point is a thing that the movement imaged when manga is read actually becomes it.
The enjoyment “What movement will it become?” is a thing that it cannot enjoy the story even in case of being because it knows the development of manga as for a bad point.
I think that the thing happily seen is important of manga and anime.
see you!