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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

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English: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Synonyms: Hagane no Renkinjutsushi (2009), FMA

Japanese: 鋼の錬金術師

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Type: TV

Episodes: Unknown

Status: Currently Airing

Aired: Apr 5, 2009 to ?

Producers: BONES, FUNimation Entertainment^L

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen, Military

Duration: 24 min. per episode

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

^L represents licensing company

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Score: 8.62¹ (scored by 17025 users)

Ranked: #35²

Popularity: #43

Members: 36,620

Favorites: 1,415

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Synopsis

In this world, there exist people with special abilities to manipulate objects and transform one object into another. These people are known as alchemists. This process does come with a cost though, the basic law of alchemy states that in order to gain something you have to sacrifice something of the same value.

The main character is the famous alchemist Edward Elric - also known as the Fullmetal Alchemist - who almost lost his little brother, Alphonse, in an accident. Edward managed to contain his brother's soul in a large suit of armor. While he did manage to save his brother's life, he had to pay a great price himself.

To get back what they've lost, the brothers embark on a journey to find the Philosophers Stone that is said to amplify the powers of an alchemist enormously.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is a re-telling of the story from the manga point of view.

Related Anime

Adaptation: Fullmetal Alchemist
Alternative version: Fullmetal Alchemist
Side story: Fullmetal Alchemist: Moumoku no Renkinjutsushi

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Characters & Voice Actors

Elric, Alphonse

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Kugimiya, Rie Japanese
Whitehead, Maxey English

Elric, Edward

Main

Paku, Romi Japanese
Mignogna, Vic English

Mustang, Roy

Main

Miki, Shinichiro Japanese
Willingham, Travis English

Rockbell, Winry

Main

Takamoto, Megumi Japanese
Glass, Caitlin English

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Staff

	Irie, Yasuhiro Director
	Ohnogi, Hiroshi Script
	Tsuchiya, Michihiro Script
	SID Theme Song Lyrics, Theme Song Arrangement, Theme Song Composition, Theme Song Performance

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Sep 13, 2009

bakababe

41 of 78 people found this review helpful

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19 of ? episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

I can't even watch the original FMA anime now that I'm currently watching Brotherhood! This is a NO FILLER anime it gets straight to the point with it's beautiful animation and amazing portrayal of the manga, everything is so different! Emotions are strong and there's more of a connection between characters then in the original anime, you immediately get dragged into this show within the first 5 minuets, this is honestly one of the most spectacular anime's i've ever laid my eyes on, it's definitely one of the best new shows of the last couple years. Its a definite watch, don't miss out!

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Oct 9, 2009

Rurouni_Tidus

20 of 44 people found this review helpful

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26 of ? episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

This review is only meant for those who haven't seen the original anime version of Fullmetal Alchemist.
What can I say about this show? I never even tried to follow the original anime.. I knew it was a big success and has a lot of followers everywhere. But it just didn't catch onto me like it did with so many others. With this renewed version, which follows the manga storyline a lot more precise than the first version, the team behind FMA: Brotherhood did a fantastic job.
The characters are instantly attractive.. what I mean with that is they are very well portrayed as people, read more

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Similar 19th-early 20th century setting. Both worlds have some form of special ability (alchemy in FMA and Innocence in DGM) used by the main characters. Both main protagonists are 15-year-olds who have a strange arm. Both also have a group of villains with secret motives.

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Monolithic expansionist empires, machine-like armies, super-special units putting out fires in all regions f the empire...very similar motif.

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Opening Theme

#1: "again" by YUI (eps. 1-14)
#2: "Hologram" by NICO Touches the Walls (eps 15-26)
#3: "Golden Time Lover" by Sukima Switch (ep 27-?)

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Ending Theme

#1: "Uso (Lie, 噓)" by SID (eps 1-14)
#2: "LET IT OUT" by Miho Fukuhara (eps 15-26)
#3: "Tsunaida Te" by Lil'B (ep 27-?)

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Eclipse Productions [Eclipse] 495 of 508 users approve

Font size and translation perfect as always

It's Eclipse!

What more can you say.. its Eclipse! gSS = gay sub sucks... "Exchange of Equivalences" is fucking the same shit as "equivalent trade", so stop whining

IT'S FUCKING ECLIPSE. ALSO shinsen is also a good choice BUT THEY HAVE BAD record of dropping series WHEN THEY GET LICENSED OR DMCA NOTICE.

Eclipse is perfect as always.

Always great quality subs.

Great translation, better than gSS and Shinsen-subs, compare them yourself. ; )

it's eclipse, they're awesome. i think they should sub it as "equivalent trade" rather than "exchange of equivalences though" =X maybe they'll change it in further eps?

THEY RULE

great

Eclipse, w/o SS, sucks as always. Learn to fansub idiots.

Very nice subs. Episode One was glitched with "Exchange of Equivalence" but fixed in episode 2. Awesome work! It's Eclipse!

Awesome as always

fuck yes! eclipse

Exchange of Equivalences! WTF?!?!

gr8 job as always

great job as usual

Excellent quality, speed and translation. Best choice.

It´s Eclipse, what else to say? Though they should change NOW the FMA phrases and make a v2, before it´s too late u.u

Very Good subs....quite fast in releases and very good quality

eclipse FTW ... always

Excellent timing, video quality and grammar.

I'm kind of torn between Eclipse or Shinsen Subs, but I think I will go with Eclipse. They are always very fluid on their releases.

In this, gSS tops them..

I JUST WANT TO PUT A NEGATIVE BLAHBLAHBLAH... JUST FOR THE LULZ

It's eclipse. ECLIPSE! Nuff said.

It's Eclipse. ECLIPSE! DONOTWANT SHITSUBS from guys who can't even spell the series' title (it's "Fullmetal", not "Full Metal", you morons). To the guy below: so how will you explain "[Eclipse] Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood - 01 (1280x720) [70C1405D]"?

very reliable group! consistent in quality. but will be even better if they released a v2 with "equivalent trade" replacing "exchange of equivalences"

fuck off

Whoever said "(it's "Fullmetal", not "Full Metal", you morons)" is a moron himself. He can't read, because it DOES say Fullmetal Alchemist above the episode number. Prick.

Exchange of Equivalences

only choice

Great quality, good translation and typesetting with some minor grammar error i suppose. I was recommended by my friend of this group. 8.5/10

Overall translation is not the best in my opinion but if you aren't very picky then definitely better than others. They have the best choice of words for the dialogue though. Their encoding makes it hard on my 10 year old computer.

Outstanding Quality

nice

Mostly good. The only problem I have though is Lan Fan's name. They have her as Ran Fan. Even the thing before and after the breaks have Lan Fan. With an L not an R. English manga also uses Lan Fan.

reliable. consistent. good quality.

Pretty much only one quality group subbing this as of late, and thankfully it's Eclipse. Great stuff.

PUT A NEGATIVE FOR A LITTLE MISTAKE!

They take out unnecessary dialog that focus on what is needed. I love that about them. I don't need extra dialog to read. I want to enjoy the anime.

better translation than Shinsen

best, lol.

he-he, you people do understand that exchange = trade? you are just all used to trade as it was translated so in the old FMA, but the core meaning of the two words is the same.

If the show is streaming online 5 days after airing, sub groups should do the honorable thing and drop the show.

The person above me doesn't get it. Some of us don't live in the US. And Eclipse is doing a fine job.

To the guy talking of the streamed episodes. I assume you know that not everybody can watch those. Have some consideration for those living outside the US. As always awesome quality from Eclipse

Best quality Better translation Fast Well known fansub for powerful anime subbing!!

Very, very good subs. Only wish they wouldn't translate some things so literally (i.e. "Nii-san" into just "Brother.")

good timing splits, natural translation, karoke

Eclipse has very nice looking subs and their translation seems to fit very according. MKV eps are easily converted to a format that works with my Xbox 360 using Xvid4PSP.

Excellent quality

They've done it awesomely. Eclipse is a trustworthy fansub. NO DROPPING cause of license.

Fantastic Subs.

Holy ****! people get angry over ONE MINOR MISTAKE? It's not even a mistake..exchange of equivalences ffs.. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/equivalencies I prefer slow but accurate subs over change the meaning of entire series subs.

eclipse is win

Excellent quality subs.

Person who talked about streaming episodes, obviously doesn't realize the US isn't the only country in the world.

*spoiled* Bargh, the hd version is in .mkv... Now I have to convert it before I can burn it in an .divx index >

The best you can hope for after episode 3.

Fighting Funi like enraged orcs!

Some occasional mistakes, but they're generally doing a great job, as usual.

Very good translations, damn fast and good video quality. Thanks for not dropping this show.

Only subbers I found that release when episode is out in .avi format

Awesome subs are awesome.

I find it quite accurate, easily understood (I'm not a native English speaker), and they do their subs quite fast ^_^

What you'd expect from Eclipse subs.

great subs as always.

They are punctual and bring superb quality.

This one's a no brainer

Great quality.

Funimation fags should gtfo

Can't even encode correctly

speed of release, good encode

it's good but not that good, the +s are all hype

detail and good sub

Regular and good

The best and most reliable. Great work.

speed and quality.

a bit better than S.S. opps! no hard feelings

Great quality as always, not always the fastest to come out though... but it's worth the wait.

They have experience when it comes to translate the mood of the language from the original to english.

great subs. No spelling or grammar errors.

Eclipse > all

type of text is good

Definitely the best out there. Great quality.

Oh, dear, you don't know how to rename file titles? I can see that's kind of embarrassing. Heck they're doing a good enough job for me, so no complaints here.

High quality as expected.

Excellent quality, decent speed.

Awesome qaulity, pretty good speed, and almost zero errors

COS I ARE TEH LIKEY THEY.

Anyone giving eclipse negatives are from the other fansub groups, seriously use more time towards your work then flaming at the pros. (ya im talking about you shinsen and gg.)

Fast and good quality.

Good quality subs and translations.

Speedy and VERY nice translations

Great quality.

great quality

It's Eclipse

fast

Grammer is good, nice and fast :D

awesome! best group doing fma right now

Very accurate and fast subs. The best group by far.

Accurate and timely releases.

I consider them the BEST fansub group ever, not only they provide very good quality, their subs are also easy to understand, hence allowing me the understand very well what that episode is talking about and also the majority of the time they release it th

eclipse always does a good job

Epic pownage.

best version...audio is better then the others and the translation is pretty good

Awesome quality, best translations, and ALWAYS the first to release the latest episode!!!

Good translations, and always on time.

Great translation, good quality Video and just around the best subs for the show

excellent as always

They are one of the best fansub groups on the net.

Always HD, always clean subs, no fuzz and both OP and ED is subbed. Filesize is a little large, but that's the price for HD.

Excellent quality

Translated well, easy to read, timed correctly.

It's Eclipse! And they have NOT dropped it yet. Their quality is good enough.

Fast and quality subbing. They're great.

nice colors of fonts

First heard for Eclipse by this. Pretty good subs, though I'd prefer having the hardsub for the HQ files in MKV as well. But of course, pretty awesome.

The best. Very good translations, HD, karaoke, no typos. Screw the rest, you can't outrun these guys on FMA.

Fast and has very good quality on both the HD and the AVI. And also good subs.

They work quickly and subs're adequate. Moreover, they use high quality raws, and release in two picture definitions.

great quality good translation

Quick, reliable, and overall good quality

quick and accurate

awesome

Great speed and quality.

very fast + good subs

good translations! love the fonts:D

Eclipse is one of the best fansub groups out there - period.

Extremely fast, very few errors

Good quality subs

Accurate and removes all the honorifics to make it seem like it's an official sub.

They're fast and the sentences actually make sense, are simple without losing the philosophical or allegorical meaning. Some other groups write stuff that looks deep/philosophical but it just doesn't make sense.

.. Just perfect!

they've done a great job in subbing FMA. :]

Fucking awful.

Majority wins. Whiners just want to be in the minority's side. Thank gawd they're not dropping it. People who live in the US, puh-lease, THINK. You're not the only ones living in this world! Self-important pricks! >_>

nice subber

Good Job

Good translations, good quality

only ones left

Good translations. Good video quality.

I like their subbing for FMA: Brotherhood... It's just great unlike some other sub's that ive gotten, that don't make sense at all...

It's good~

awesome quality subs

fast and good and readable

great text format and karaoke on the opening and ending songs

Great subs.

They're great with subbing!

Clear and rightly timed text.

Great translations :-)

They do a good job, and do it really fast

Shinsen-Subs [SHS] 125 of 186 users approve

Taka Fansubs [Taka] 26 of 47 users approve

gg Fansubs & BSSubs [gSS / gg-BSS] 43 of 83 users approve

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