I know this is quite silly to ask, but since I wasn't aware of manga while FMA was out in manga, is there a close chapter where the anime ended?

sorry for the question!

In fact, the anime and the manga have a totally different story...
So the where anime ended, has nothing to do with the manga chapters...
BUT! the anime and the manga follow each other closely for arround the first 20 episodes or so of the anime... (can't seem to remember sorry).
I'd suggest that you read the entire thing, but if you really insist, I can try and look arround at arround wich chapter the story's go each theire way...

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BUT! the anime and the manga follow each other closely for arround the first 20 episodes or so of the anime...

Serious? That might explain why I got so annoyed with the anime around 28-29 and stopped watching it.

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Serious? That might explain why I got so annoyed with the anime around 28-29 and stopped watching it.

Yeah, so I really suggest you give the manga a try then, It's really different, and tottaly worth it (IMO).
There are alot more series that suffered the same (or worse) fate (actually FMA the anime wasn't bad...)
And that's actually one of the many reaseons that made almost entirely stop watching animes, fillers, screwed up story's just because they couldn't wait for the manga to finish, stoping production without notice because the show didn't get enough audiance etc...
All that made me just focus on reading the mangas...

thanks!, i guess i take a shot at it D:

just wondering, does the movie conqueror to shamballa has any relation to the manga? or was it a production sidestory?

If the anime from around ep20 doesn't follow the manga and it doesn't go back to it for the rest of the 51 episode series, do you expect the movie to? The movie follows the anime. That's it. Period. Final.

A just ruler amongst tyrants

lol lambchopsil! from your answer, your sig, AND avatar, it look you do really take this subject at heart!

Then you should see the sig I have for other forums (not this one since it's too large...)

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/2152/final3wm.jpg
(It's pretty old though...no time to make a newer one)

A just ruler amongst tyrants

speaking of which lamb, are you an FMA anime fan, FMA manga fan, or both?

Well it's a nice sig, and the last pic looks like it's from conqueror of shamballa (or whatever was the name of the movie...)
So it's probably not That old... (I may be mistaken)
And that gives me another indication... it seems you use the nick "lambchopsil" on all the others forums to... does it have any kind of meaning? I must admit it really doesn't ring any bell to me...
Well nick's aren't always supposed to have a meaning like mine... but they usually do ring some kind of bell, you know...
Oh and I was really about to ask the same thing as SiLNeT...

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And that's actually one of the many reaseons that made almost entirely stop watching animes, fillers, screwed up story's just because they couldn't wait for the manga to finish, stoping production without notice because the show didn't get enough audiance etc...
All that made me just focus on reading the mangas..

I can only second that.

But i watched the whole FMA anime series and found it to be pretty entertaining. Could somebidy say how the manga and anime differ? Hmmm, maybe that would be spoiling. Forget the question, i'll just read it sometime.
bye

I like both equally since although the anime differs in story, it does so in a good way that still makes it a great anime. Usually animes suck when they split off from the manga (look at the Naruto fillers...), but FMA does a nice job (but some people like Manick will disagree).

That sig was made right after the movie was made in Japan.

As for my nickname, it actually DOES have some meaning but I'm not telling it to just any random person. I use the same nickname for everything on the internet, so if you see my nickname somewhere else, that's me (unless someone's trying to ruin my name...then that's a different story...) (Most people know my for manga scanlations)

A just ruler amongst tyrants

i didn't think it was horrible, it just lost my interest. I caught the last 10 eps of the series or so on cartoon network and saw the movie, and i thought they were okay. I kinda sensed a change in the direction or something of the series and just got tired of it.

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[...]As for my nickname, it actually DOES have some meaning but I'm not telling it to just any random person[...]

Wow! that hurts... well not really, but I wasn't expecting that kind of answer...
But it's true you have no reason to tell me about it, so you shouldn't.

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I kinda sensed a change in the direction or something of the series and just got tired of it.

It seems you really have some kind of sixth sense! I really didn't notice a thing, well I noticed a shift in the story, but for me it was because of the revelations that where done at those episodes...
If it wasn't for a friend of mine that told me that FMA the manga was still running, I would have never gave a second though about it...
(P.S. I really didn't like the movie)

Oh and bully_jesus, I could try to tell the differences between the manga and the anime, but it would REALLY be spoilling it, so unless you really insist I suggest you read it on you're own.

This topic is really old so maybe I won't get a response, but now that I realize the manga and anime are different, I'm wondering. Has any of what happened in the anime, after the anime started to have storyline that hadn't been in the manga, been put into the manga? What I mean is, are they really unique stories after that point, or did the mangaka clearly have input on the anime's storyline? Such as with the characters of Lust, Envy, etc., who you don't really understand deeply until later into the anime, but who you get glimpses of in the first ~20 episodes. Does it seem like the mangaka told them a few of his ideas for where he was going with the story and they put it together, or something? I mean, I don't know if mangaka do that, but yeah.

I really loved the FMA anime, I thought it was incredible, and I was personally amazed at how they brought everything together when it came to (major spoiler ahead)

how the philosopher's stone could only be created by mass murdering people, and that was why wars had been engineered in the past. That really seemed coherent with how the earlier part of the story had looked down on war, anyway.