[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Orange Ranger

just because it wasn't in the manga doesn't mean it was crap. I thoroughly enjoyed both series.

No no, I didn't mean "made up crap" as in garbage, I just meant "made up crap" as in it was made up for the anime.

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Originally Posted by guncannon109

Isn't the manga made up? In the context of FMA I can't call the second half of the series filler. In most shows, filler is a side story that is meant to expand on the world or the characters and take a break from the story at large, not a storyline that wasn't in the manga. Sure its different, but just because it didn't follow the original story (which wasn't even finished at the time) doesn't mean that what happened in the parts that weren't in the manga was filler.

Filler is meant for anything that is not part of the manga. Hellsing after episode 6 is filler. And honestly, I don't care for the first FMA series all that much. NO matter how many times I watch it, I just have a hard time getting into it, compared to Brotherhood, which I fell in love with instantly. My biggest issue with FMA is that it just does not make sense having Bradley as Pride and their mother being Sloth. There is nothing lazy about her. Plus, the characters never seem to age and I hated Kimbley being turned into the Terminator. Oh, and Olivia is my favorite character in the series, so her not being in the first anime does not help either. Now to be fair, I did find the alternate Earth aspect to be pretty cool, but the execution was bad, especially at how they just ditched Winry in the end.