The adaptation of manga, intead of original work. Shame really. The second part fails to capture awesomness of first part opting to do everything as differently as possible from first part. Which is a shame - charecter development is just poor (and some charecters such as Mustang are just boring opposing the brilliant and loved Mustang from first part), the speed of story doesn't leave any time for good plot, idiotic deforming of animation, poor animation in general (despite huge budjet), good OST, that nevertheless fails to shine in comparison to first part and most importantly it fails to use brilliant findings of original anime (such as comparison of Winry-Ed's mother with ligh shining through the hills). The originally very touching story of two brothers became just a humorous story. No drama, crying, cruelty of the world, no life-problem questions, no interesting and philosophical monologues, etc
Very many points where it could do better, but doesn't. Insted of formula "excelent manga + ecelent anime prequel" we only get so-so mainstream anime.
Though with soon to depart original series story it could still be prooved to be good anime. However, after dissapointing Soul Eater and Xam'd faith into Bones is very weak.
