Story - 9
Story so far is not so different than FMA, but so far Brotherhood is running at the speed it must, and they are pointing very well the little differences so far.
Art - 9
Art is good so far, they use animation with good quality, and fluid and realistic animation. You can see very clearly the differnce between Al's and Ed's movements, which is normal since one is an armor and the other a human. They also put a lot of effort in the action sequences where everything destroyes in a natural fashion.
Sound - 8
Really not so different to FMA, the quality is good, but not the best.
Character - 8
Here is where most people complain, and here is where you must know that Brotherhood is not FMA. While FMA runs over character development, and you get to know almost every character as good as the main characters, Brotherhood fails in that. And they fail on that because Brotherhood is more story-orientated than FMA. The character development is so deep in FMA, that you feel like if an arc finishes when any secondary character dies, while in Brotherhood the death of a character just seems like an ordinary episode, the best example is Hughes, that while in FMA you get to know, and love him very much, in Brotherhood is just another death. This works just fine with Brotherhood, as you'll see when it develops ever further.
Enjoyment - 10
This is tricky, cause if you've already watched FMA, you'll feel like a simple re-run, but as a matter of fact, I'm enyoing Brotherhood much more than FMA, not just because it is running faster, but because they are only empatising things related to the plot, not to the character development.
Overall - 9
While Brotherhood deceive FMA anime hardcore fans, it's good in its own way. It uses a different formula than FMA, and I'm sure that it'll work out. So if you already watched FMA, and you aren't sure if watch this or not, please do, when the time comes you'll be satisfied that you did, just don't get impatient.
