Fullmetal Alchemist has always been one of my favorite series. Back when I started watching fansubs in 2003, FMA ended up being the second series I was able to catch while it was still going on in Japan. Since the ending of the first series, I ended up reading the manga and was surprised to see how much the anime deviated from the original storyline. Fast forward 4 years after the ending of the first series (including the movie) and another series has started as the manga draws to a close.
I'm not going to mince words here. The first episode was AMAZING. While it is filler, everything that happened in this episode was a perfect reboot. I've never seen an event on this scale happening in a first episode in anything. It's even harder to believe it was all resolved in one episode.
As for it being filler, this was somewhat expected. I'm glad Bones decided to take this route rather than just remake everything that happened in the first series. It appears the next episode will involve the boys' flashback, so I doubt it will deviate too much from the story. As seen in the opening, it looks like there will be some manga only characters/storylines appearing so I doubt we have to worry.
The way I see it, we will eventually be back at the part where the anime deviated from the manga in the first series, but there won't be any deviation this time. That's great as there are many characters and events I would like to see animated (Ling FTW ;)
I'll be sure to mention it again when we get a little bit farther. Look forward to it.
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