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nemotiger t1_isdpc9d wrote

Is this just a remake?

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GingasaurusWrex t1_isdqeor wrote

Sort of. It’s like Full Metal Alchemist vs Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

As in, the original anime run significantly departed from the source material story found in the manga. This will be a faithful retelling of the mangas story. It’s a huge difference in plot tbh.

Edit: Rewatched it. Trailer is not exactly manga accurate either…wtf is going on.

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Notoriously_So t1_isdr5qi wrote

Yeah, this will not be FMA: Brotherhood.

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noneedforeathrowaway t1_ise2iwj wrote

It's been a minute since I've read, but I remember being similarly impressed with Trigun Maximum as I was with the Fullmetal Alchemist manga. There are a lot of similar well addressed themes of purpose, sacrafice, redemption, and manipulative world ending threats from things/abilities that were supposed to be humanities salvation. I know the community is very biased, and the FMA manga remains probably my favorite, or if not - 1a, b, or c...but Trigun Maximum ranks up there as well imo.

Don't let the charming but rushed quirkiness of the original anime fool you.

EDIT: this series does not look manga accurate though so oh well. Would have loved to see a manga accurate Angle Arms fight finally adapted for animation

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HidaKureku t1_isevzfj wrote

Hell, I'd settle for at least seeing all the gung ho guns and wolfwood's backstory not being butchered.

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flower4000 t1_isdykn0 wrote

I mean the fma comic is on another level of literature than pretty much most other comics in general so ya, but I think they mean like it’s just more book accurate.

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GingasaurusWrex t1_isf8vc8 wrote

I would agree that it’s unlikely. FMA:B Is a masterpiece. But that’s not what I meant. It’s a similar situation of why it’s happening (ie to do a faithful adaptation because the first entry diverged so strongly).

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flower4000 t1_isdy870 wrote

I wish Vash had his manga hair rather than this modern boy band bob

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JeffTek t1_isgxd36 wrote

They really twinked him up for some reason

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flower4000 t1_ish1an8 wrote

I mean he always kinda was, I just miss the hair lol like why mess w an iconic silhouette, that’s like character design 101

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squid-do t1_iseigs5 wrote

Looks like one of the main characters is completely original. Also, Millie is absent. Can’t really call that a faithful retelling.

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Aries_218 t1_isduyfl wrote

Is that true? I thought this was supposed to take place before the manga.

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Neids_Biinrel t1_isf5uqj wrote

Meryl is in the trailer, so the story is far from manga accurate.

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CptSteiner t1_isf9xw6 wrote

This is not a faithful retelling... The story and characters, from what's shown in the trailer, appear to be further from the source material from the original.

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GingasaurusWrex t1_isfa30y wrote

Guess we don’t know til it’s out.

But ya after some of the comments I’ve rewatched it and started to have the same feelings. Hope we are wrong.

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CptSteiner t1_isfapof wrote

Yeah fingers crossed that it's good. FMAB's first episode was all original content and not from the manga, and it existed only to help explain the story to newcomers, and more importantly, gave a bunch of action sequences that they used for trailers prior to release. Maybe a similar situation is going on here, but this looks more like a reimagining to me.

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