That feel when you watch a great anime and then realise that you will never ever ever get to see it for the first time ever again...

This was hands down one of the greatest anime of all time

this also has one of the greatest anime dubs imo

I think ANYONE can agree with me, that the pinboard with the pictures at the very end of the show was the most satisfying thing ever.

I just finished this show. HOW CAN ONE BE SO HAPPY AND YET SO SAD ITS OVEEEEEER?!

He mentioned Hunter x Hunter. I am satisfied.

Just going to say, I went into Brotherhood not having seen or read any other FMA material, and did not notice any problems with the pacing of or the introduction of characters in the first 12 episodes. I've only actually heard complaints about it from people who didn't go in blind, which makes me wonder if the perceived problems might only be visible to those who have some idea of what's going to happen and therefore go into it with expectations. Could be I just haven't heard from people who went in blind that did have problems though.

After watching Brotherhood, I envisioned the sudden realisation that nothing could ever trump this. This anime is perfection up to an uncanny degree. It is clear to me that a terrifying loss must await those who gained knowledge of it; as Mozart died upon the final note of his Requiem, or as Boltzmann paid for his advances in physics by loss of his sanity. What was then my toll for beholding this unparalleled opus magnum? Where was the catch in this contract I closed with alchemy? What will you, reader, lament on conclusion of this masterpiece? The price you must pay in return for finishing Brotherhood is that you will not ever again be able to watch it for the first time. No potion is strong enough to make you forsake this memory, no circle can reverse the transmutation that has happened. An arm and a leg would not suffice to bring forth the impossible, neither the body of any relative of yours. Savour every second of this feast while it is happening, spectator, knowing that you will never again see akin to the story that craves, yet denies an equal.

Main difference between the original and Brotherhood, we get all the fun of Nina's storyline in one episode

Arkada....Edward Elric...hmmm... Blonde Hair: Check Red Jacket: Check Very Energetic Personality: Check Not able to use Alchemy yet still tries: Check Based off the circumstances given it is fair to say *ahem*....WEEABOO CONFIRMED! Jk. Love ya Arkada xD

I need to mention this. Everything in the anime had progressed with every episode. For example, the skin carved symbol of Mustang slowly healed away in several episodes. Another is obvious, Edward's height.

It's over, isn't it? Why can't I move on?

I honestly like the 4 opening... I feel it is way to underrated

The pig goes "Oink" The cow goes "moo" The horse goes "neigh" The dog goes "Ed...ward"

Did anyone else notice that Aaron Desmuke made a brief cameo appearance as the younger version of Von Hohenheim? I thought it was a nice little touch

Took your advice and watched FMA and then Brotherhood after, I enjoyed them both so much...I do think that FMA did some of the exposition better, but I liked brotherhoods ending better, at the end of FMA I was sorta disappointed because I felt like the parallel universe thing was out of the blue. I wanted to see what I ended up seeing in Brotherhood. That climax!!!! I still love both though, so freaking great.

I have yet to find an anime with a story as epic as FullMetal Alchemists. The anime definitely had my favorite soundtrack, and the story was so epic. Just watching the characters talk with small amounts of orchestras behind them was epic.

This is easily the greatest shounen of all time, and among the top 50 anime of all time without a doubt and is personally my second favorite. It really is something to behold something that could have not even been an anime and still been magnificent, and you good sir have managed to convey that. This is one of your best vids yet, I applaud you Arkada.

The 2003 Al voiced Young Hohenheim in Brotherhood.

I'm heartbroken this series is now out of print.....

Last time I came this early I was paying child support

So if Soul eater follows this same rhythm as the FMA series we should be having a readaptation of it next year... Soul eater: Resonance Just a hypothesis tho...

I hate when people say that like FMAB is better because it follows the manga. I like FMAB more because it's simply better.

Both versions of Fullmetal Alchemist are superb. I watched Brotherhood before the 2003 version, which people may say is a difficult thing to do because of the differences between the animation, ending and soundtrack. But it never effected me. The story in both versions is what really hooked me into the world of FMA. I also love the films, though I prefer the Conqueror of Shamballa film over the Sacred Star of Milos. The English dub in both versions are brilliant, the soundtracks are amazing and the animation is awesome (Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 especially considering it's age now). I also recommend both versions to everyone - FMA is my all time favorite anime. :D

Brotherhood ended ... "Really well" ? Don't undersell it lmfao , Brotherhood has quite possibly one of the best endings in anime history.

Did he just recommend hunter x hunter.........Now I'm getting greedy, I demand a hunter x hunter 1999 and 2011 review

This is imo the greatest anime of all time, FMA: Brotherhood is a masterpiece

>Says he doesn't want to spoil ending > SPOILER: Shows a clip of Ed transmuting with two arms. Smh

Fullmetal Alchemist is better written and more mature than Death Note. Fight me.

I firmly believe that watching the 2003 version before Brotherhood is the ideal way to enjoy Brotherhood.

I would die happy if there would be a revamp in a decade or longer from now that covers the original manga even better than Brotherhood did.

Maybe I'm just stupid but after watching episode 1 of Brotherhood (and never having seen the original) I didn't get the impression that they were setting up Bradley to be a villain.

LOL Are you for real? Roy Mustang has THE BEST Moment ever in Brotherhood.. Shit, None of his actions in the first run even comes close to the epicness in that specific Brotherhood moment which is not only powerful but its also very useful and the execution is one of the most flawless moments in anime history.

You should review the greatest seinen of all time, Cory in the house.

Wait what shows Bradly's allegiance in Episode 1? Granted it's been a few years but all I remember him doing is putting down the ridiculously named rebel (something every other character in that episode was trying to do) and smiling at the Elrics saying he;ll have something to tell his son. I don't recall anything that showed he was a bad guy until Greed got the melt.

I just finished FullMetal Alchemist Brotherhood this morning... around like 4ish in the morning and i had school today xD I just loved the remake... I just couldnt go to sleep and wait for today to come so around like 12ish in the morning I sneakly grabbed my phone and just watch from 56 to 64. This show touched me... I was crying that the show ended! The ending was amazing that the original. Both of the animes were the best no doubt about it. I mentioned this to my friend and she is loving i so far (Shes on episode 2 on the original) I told her to watch the original like what Glass Reflection said because he's right. It's like rewatching Brotherhood then you just get bored over it. This anime is the best... It's in one of my top 5. Now what happened to me when i only had three hours of sleep? Got very tired at times... Almost fell asleep in Science two times (Teacher had to tell me to wake up) the third time something was stuck in my eye so i was rubbing it and he told me to stand up in the middle of the class... Embarrassing... But it was worth watching FMA for 6 hours in the middle of the night. (I started around 10 but i had to stop at 11:35 since my parents were walking around) I regret nothing.

Scrub lord, you didn't mention Jojo

Fmab ruined anime for me. It was the first anime I ever watched and it set the standard so high that all the other anime I watch is just utter dog shit in comparison.

Just finished it. I wonder why i waited so long to watch it. It is like my 50th anime. This anime conquered the top spot in my top list. I still need to watch the 2003 version though. I hope it is as good as brotherhood. For those who didn't watch it. STOP WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING AND WATCH THIS ANIME. IT IS A MASTERPIECE

Greed's voice is what I breathe for.

FMA Brotherhood is the best anime of all time.

This is the very BEST FMA:B review ever. FMA was my first anime, followed by FMA:B, since then, I've been living with this void in my heart, seeking such greatness in any form. I have found many good, great, amazing anime, but FMA/FMA:B is something else. Maybe I'm overrating it, but it is just that good! I agree with you, both are great in their own aspects, but the best experience is to watch both of them int the order they came out. After that I read the manga, just cuz I needed more! GREAT REVIEW, it was loong overdue. Thank you.

Your enthusiasm for these shows is incredible. Excellent review!

this is the best review you have made yet, I was very impressed at the way you did this, especially connecting all 3 videos

Now we just need a tokyo ghoul brotherhood

Arkada, I have to thank you. I was one of those brotherhood fans that put down the original to no end. I watched the original once, years ago, and have rewatched brotherhood a countless number of times, so brotherhood had a very unfair advantage in my mind. After your review of the original, I was armed and ready to put down 03 in the comments with all the good things brotherhood had to offer. But then I realized that, from memory alone, I only could remember one bad thing about the original. So, this past weekend I re-watched it, and my jaw has been dropped in awe of what I've forgotten ever since. The original was fantastic; it makes so much sense when I remember how in love I was with it before watching brotherhood. In a way, I got to experience it again, from the deserved longevity of the presence of Hughes to the small witty quips that made it a masterpiece. So, now my heart has grown to accept both adaptations as amazing works of art and labors of love. Again, thank you.

finally ! ^^ now I feel like your list is complete ! -enough- or at least , having darling FMA reviewed by you is AMAZING! thank you for doing it ^^ and you did do both shows justice

Brotherhood and the original FMA both had without a doubt the best dubs I've ever heard.

well, I watched brotherhood first, is that bad?

Looks like Christmas came early.

I've just found your channel in the past week and I absolutely love you already. This show was also AMAZING and I just finished it, that's how I found you. This is like my new favorite channel :D

Dude, you're amazing honestly, your videos are so well-made, I really hope you get more and more successful

I just watched it all. I have never felt so many different emotions at so many different times when watching a series. One of the greatest things I’ve ever watched in my life

The sad thing is when FMA is the third anime you've ever watched so nothing really seems to live up to it 😂. I started off watching the original Fruits Basket and Ouran High School Host Club after loving the mangas back in 2012 as an 11 year old. They were nice, and really brought me into Anime - but FMA blew everything out of the water and created a real love for the genre. It now has a very emotionally charged place for me being that titular anime for me. There are a lot of good shows that have come in the time, I genuinely enjoy them but FMA will probably always be my favorite anime of all time. One thing that's interesting for me is how my favorite has shifted from the 2003 anime to the 2009 anime. I watched the series as a kid at 12 years old, and I'm lucky in that I thankfully started with the 2003 series. I watched Brotherhood about a year later but I found myself preferring the 2003 plotline for the emotional background to homunculi creation, that focus on the ramifications of human transmutation. Brotherhood seemed colder and I didn't really like that fact. Oddly enough rewatching almost 8 years later, now I prefer Brotherhood. I still enjoy and appreciate the emotional aspect of the 2003 series, but I prefer the scale and complexity that Brotherhood also offers in other areas as well: worldbuilding, politics etc.

I was listening to Arkada talking while scrolling through the comment section, and ENJOY listening to the background osts. I MISSED FMAB

I love your reviews, even with anime I have already seen! Your reviews highlight my own thoughts or open my eyes to new things. You do lots of justice to glorious anime!! Love your stuff :))

We're watching this in my schools anime club and I never could comprehend the consequences of having a room of hormone fuelled teenagers react to episode 4. I've never witnessed such hatred in one room.

I watched Brotherhood first and am getting into the 2003 adaptation now and after 10 episodes I have to say: This is so worth it! I don't have any problems with the pace, really like the different twists on some of the topics (though I'm generally rather for consistency inside a franchise) and I don'T mind the main plot not going at the same pace as Brotherhood, because there are some good stories to be told. From what I've seen until now, the old anime made some things right Brotherhood is missing out on and it's still enjoyable, if you watched the newer one first.

I barely registered the difference of Al’ voice actors. That was incredible voice work!!!

You know, I discovered you today, and thought you were pretty funny and a good reviewer, so I subbed, and the first thing that went through my mind was "Does he have my two favorites, FMA and FMA:B?". And I sort of giggled when I looked and saw that the three most recent videos are FMA related.

I completely loved FMA: Brotherhood. The way the characters and story were developed and the way they brought all of the plot lines together as they got closer and closer to the end, and tied it all together so beautifully gave Brotherhood the best ending I have ever seen in any show ever, and I'm not limiting that statement to anime. The show has a way of getting you connected to the characters, without blatantly saying "you must root for these characters because protagonists," it makes you want to root for them. The characters aren't all black and white, which I'd elaborate more on but I don't want to risk any spoilers. In terms of production and story development and the ending, I'd say that this is the best series I have ever watched.

FMA Brotherhood was my first anime ever watched, I've been in love ever since

Just finished bingeing it because you're my favorite reviewer . I just cried like a baby on those last twp episodes

Like I said, I think you're one of the best and one of the most enjoyable reviewers. You are so balanced, fair, objective and uplifting at the same time. Gold star to you Arkada ;D

Arkada, what's your opinion on the movies?Sacred Star of Milos for Brotherhood, and Conqueror of Shambala for the original? The OVA for brotherhood?

I feel brotherhood is more like a "how it could of happened" because of how the story played out. the introduction episodes of the original are so much better, but after where the manga and the anime split brotherhood followed the manga much better and had better production quality.

I loved the last OP to brotherhood. Rain really hits that emotional note super well and I love it.

I agree whole heartedly with everything stated in this review...and love this anime so much...And I have told people this exactly the same...to watch FMA before Brotherhood. It's so nice to see all my same thoughts articulated in these reviews.

Holy shit Arkada watched a long running shonen anime? We need that hunter x hunter review straight away!

I hope one day technology allows you to erase parts of you're memory so I can rewatch this gem for the first time again.

Oh, how long I've waited for this. Thank you Arkada.

I love your review! I first saw the original 2003 adaptation then jumped into brotherhood! Wow it’s now in my top favorite shows and I really miss the characters. I wish I could erase my memory and rewatch it!

Fullmetal Alchemist and Brotherhood are literally my entire life, i cried when it ended.....

Seriously this show is the best animated show I've ever seen besides Avatar The Last Airbender

Something I love about this anime is the consistency of its art. I don’t just mean in brotherhood. In both anime adaptations the art is super consistent. I like to see early episodes of a show, like bleach, or dragonball and see how much different it is. But keeping the art consistent was great for a series to maintain.

Man, so far, I've only watched the fullmetal alchemists videos of yours and i've gotta say: i'm going to watch the others. for sure. Fullmetal Alchemist is for certainly on my top 1 anime because of everything it brought upon me. Great review. I think i couldn't express myself any better. Greetings from a Brazilian guy (:

The reason why I can't get on with Brotherhood anymore goes as follows (also, major spoiler warning): There was no conceivable way Al could've gotten his body back. Al lost his entire body as the cost for attempting human transmutation. Hohenheim told Izumi that there was no way to restore that which was taken away by the Gate when he re-arranged her organs to make her life easier and by the end of the series, Ed still has an automail leg. If Hohenheim, a LIVING PHILOSOPHER'S STONE WITH 400 YEARS OF ALCHEMIC KNOWLEDGE says this and his own son doesn't have his leg back (not to mention the fact that Roy still lacks his sight), then there should've been no conceivable way that Al could've gotten his body back. If giving up your ability to perform alchemy is what allows you to regain what you lost from the gate, Ed should've gotten his left leg back and nothing more. By the time that Ed realises that he could give up his ability to perform alchemy, Al's soul already detached itself from the armour so there was no way that Al could've gotten that knowledge. The ending to Brotherhood was complete and total horseshit. I'd much rather it be a bittersweet or even a downright depressing ending where the brothers remain separated because at least that way, it falls in line with the subject matter that the entire series tackles. These two guys committed a huge crime against the natural order (literally). There should've been no way they could've had things work out for the better whatsoever.

Great review. Brotherhood literally my fav anime.

You're amazing! I love your reviews. Keep up the good work!

Aiyaaa. We have the same reason for not watching it sooner. I didn't want it to end yet. But now that it has, and I havr finally seen brotherhood, I am heartbroken, yet at the same time invigorated. I love the story so much that it left me empty when it ended. The story is truly the epitome of epic and sublime. The show may have ended but their characters will live on in my heart. Thank you for this review, GR. As always, you give so much justice to each anime. :)

Olivier Armstrong is my favorite character of all time and I fucking love Fort Briggs

Best anime ever !! Forever in my heart. I m happy to see that im not the only one who is still amazed by this masterpiece after all this years ^^

The word you're looking for with the music themes is leitmotif. Great video, makes me realize how badly I need to watch Brotherhood.

love the disclaimer at the beginning of the episode

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. The perfect manga and the best anime ever.

The Sacred Star of Milos was pretty bad. You're not missing anything.

I started watching this because of this reveiw. I'm at about episode 50 and I'm absolutely loving it ( especially since I'm fairly new to anime, or at least I haven't seen to many of them )

So glad someone finally shares my thoughts on the difference between these two! The 2003 series always felt more emotionally dramatic and plays more like a psychological thriller of sorts, where Brotherhood is definitely more of a shonen. Which makes it hard to compare them apples to apples. They really just feel like two different shows, each likable in their own right!

Not only was FMA a great anime...but it's quite possibly one of the best Fictional pieces I've ever seen!!!

Make way for the greatest anime of all time!

i love the fact that literally EVERYONE i know that eve talked to me about FMAB said that they completly loved the show and thought it was amazing, even people who werent into anime and people who were deeply into anime but had not seen FMAB by chance i love when things like that exist, fma is simply very very well made to the point that most people who end up watching it will end up loving it

My major gripe with Brotherhood (other than the Tucker & Hughes family arcs you already mentioned), was that Lab 5 got a whole one episode in Brotherhood. They totally skimped over it and the significance of it was left very vague for a good while, making it feel somewhat random.

I've literally been putting off watching the last episode for like two years simply because I don't want it to be over. no joke. I watched the 2003 version all the way through then watched brotherhood til the last episode then just stopped watching because then it would be over and there would be no more FMA.... which is really sad.

arcada please review hunterxhunter hxh and FMA brother hood both are rated in the top 10 of the website myanimelist

You completely nail this review, especially about how you feel empty after completing all 64 episodes. Its probably the most complete and satisfying ending i've watched but it also made me want soo much more of it.. like how their journey would continue AFTER the whole homunculi saga ended, whether they'd find new forms of alchemy and all that.

Mustang confirmed and you reviews are always amazing. This series mean as much for me as it does for you :) sorry I can't really say anything more complicated in english... Jak zawsze naprawdę dokładnie przestudiowałeś serie i dostrzegłeś w niej wszystko co powinno zostać dostszerzone. Seria fullmetal alchemist i brotherhood znaczy dla mnie tak wiele jak i dla ciebie. Było moim pierwszym anime. Wywarło na mnie ogromne wrażenie zapewniając że w swoim gatunku nie ma sobie równych.

Both of the animes are good, but I like the original better. I feel that it was much more set on one target other than splitting of into 4 or 5 stories that then over time come together at the end. I also taught that the homonculi were better. Wrath and Sloth were my favorites by far because they were close to the main and side characters. Hoenheim was better in brotherhood tough.

Gigguk needs to watch this review! He needs to watch and review this show!

I pretty much was nodding my head in agreement from the very start of this. The whole Fullmetal series is what started me on my love of anime & to this day after everything I have watched it still continues to be my most favourite.

trisha's lullaby always bring shiver to my spine on how awesome it is