Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - Part 1 (Episodes 1-13) (2 Discs)

having been slightly dissapointed with the ending of the series and film i was glad to see a re-edit of the series much of it stays true to the old series but having watched up to episode 53 its past the orgional series 48 episode length meaing they have included lots more info on the Homunculous including ones that werent talked about in the last series, many characters are present from the last series including new ones that aid in the story line, with more darker undertones in the story line thia series is i consider better than the origional.
a definate buy if like me you were left dissapopinted with last series but be ready for a long wait for the series to be released as its still going now which looks like it could be 60+ episodes.

Im not going to go into detail of the story, as I don't want to spoil anything. As most of you know this is a re-telling of the series and close to the manga than the other series. Im only going to say the stuff that kinda botherd me. As of yet I have only watched the first disc and it's brilliant. One episode has subtitles going over the widescreen mark so you couldnt read the start and the end. Hope there is no more episodes like these silly mistakes. The Opening is great with subtitles to sing along to but it has English Credits, im just being fussy as I would rather it to be in Japanese or have it in japanse if watching it in japanese and English if watching it in English, they did this with the original series in the 4 box sets that were released, but it's not Manga Entertainments fault, it's Funimation, where Manga got them from to release them here in the UK. The last thing I don't like is the dvd case, the region 1 is far better with it's slip case and free postcards. I just wish there was more effort gone to the case it self. But like I said im only nit picking as I have seen better dvds, which is a shame just as a great show like FMA. If you don't care of what I said thats fair enough and you should pick this up as it's a great anime to watch and can't wait to finish off the 2nd disc.

FMA Brotherhood is re-edit of FMA it stays closer to the original manga more than the last one, but it has completely new stories, battles, heck episode 1's battles were amazing, the animation is sleek, the English Dub is Spectacular! The story is excellent and touching, the 2nd episode is espcially sad, Im glad Funimation has dubbed this to a high standard, you get over 5 hours for 14.99! I love it and you should to! Who says Anime isnt cheap!?