Started watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood for the first time. I had watched the original series years ago, but never saw the most recent version. From what I understand, it sorta handles things like Hellsing Ultimate did, where they are rehashing what was done in the previous series, but much quicker, no fluff, and then will be adhering more closely to the manga for the future. It'll be interesting to see. I generally know the basics of a number of things from the first series, but there's still a few emotional moments early on that still got me, even knowing they are coming. The two big ones that any FMA watcher would know still tugged at the heart strings.
Gonna be a good watch.
*EDIT*
And it was. Just finished all 5 parts and super enjoyed it. It's so well done and way better than the previous version of the show in most areas. Only negatives I would say is it felt like they were rushing things a little bit early on in the series, such as skipping over the events of the mining town completely. Sure, it doesn't have any significant impact on the show and they explain what happened in Part 3 I believe, but they reference the place multiple times and one of the side characters that Scar hangs out with is the baddie from there, so it seemed like it might've been worth doing a quick single episode on it like they did with the Cornello and Liore. Other than that little nit pick, it's great. I don't really know why I waited so long to watch this version of FMA.
