D, on 05 August 2016 - 09:39 PM, said:
re: FMA/FMA:B - the jury is out on which version is actually better, but they're both quite good. I had the same issue as you where I found it hard to get interested/immersed in FMA:B during the first few episodes. The problem is that FMA:B was made with the idea that most people had already seen the first, so they condense some story elements quite a bit at the beginning - what takes 3 episodes in FMA gets squished into 1 in FMA:B, so the pacing doesn't leave a lot of room to get attached to things. The story starts to shift gears into more than just Ed and Al going on random research journeys for a philosopher stone around episode 10 and fully picks up in episodes 13 and 14. I would try to watch it to that point, and if you're still not interested by then, drop it.
It did start getting more interesting around episode 10, though I don't think I really got into it until closer to episode 20. I'm in the 40s now, and officially in binge mode.
I wonder if maybe it isn't possible to watch some combination of the original anime and the Brotherhood ending to get the story the way it was originally intended to be told. The flashback method in the early part of Brotherhood might have something to do with why I found it hard to get into. I found it awkward at points, and it was definitely difficult to get attached to the characters at first. Anyway, maybe I should have searched around for a combination episode guide; I'm sure some helpful person has made one, somewhere. I suspect that many people who said it would be fine to watch just Brotherhood didn't actually start with Brotherhood themselves. (I am sometimes reluctant to recommend DB Kai for that reason, though I tend to think it's a better version of the story.)
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