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With the impending japanese release of the ‘new’ Fullmetal Alchemist anime, many questions have been flitting back and forth between avid fans of the series. Like anything, my first response would be to mention that really, no one knows. Even Arakawa, who said in an interview recently that she wasn’t even sure how the manga would tie up in the end.

I know that the burden of so many people’s expectations must be so pressurising, and what with the mixed reviews of the FMA movie, The Conqueror of Shamballa, many eyes are on Arakawa to see exactly what is going to happen to the cast?

There are so many questions that have yet to be answered, and we are not given clues about through the first anime. We already know that the manga goes much deeper than the plight of the Homunculi, and Dante - and Hoenhiem’s influence on the manga is drastically changed. The biggest difference of course being the non-existence of Dante in the manga, and Father in the anime.

It seems to be quite frustrating to some fans that the first anime was released at all, as the manga was in such early stages when it was produced, and Arakawa’s mind seems to twist in many different, more ‘adult’ ways than predicted by Studio Bones. I suppose, the flip side of course, is that without the anime, there wouldn’t be as much publicity as there is currently.

I know that I myself will be following the new anime with a very interested eye. The opportunity for a second chance at these kinds of things comes rarely, and with such a great initial anime in the first place, I hope that this will appeal to those fans who have yet to read the manga (and furthermore, encourage them to do just that.) and that current manga fans might be tempted by the more canonically correct anime production.

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