[22:11] <masamune> mother of fucking spoiler OPs
[22:11] <masamune> i fucking HATE when they show so much shit in the OP
[22:12] * masamune did, although, have a bit of a fangasm at all the Kimblee and _____ in the new FMA OP


also, is it just me, or must Pinako have shrunk a LOT since the time she met Hoenheim? Must be all that booze...


oh, wait. IT WAS ALL A DREAM! Thanks for giving us our first real look at that character through that tireless flashback framing device. Ugh. I was quite displeased with how this episode turned out. It did a lot of unneccesary things to increase the drama, but, for what? For a recap episode? Fucking should have saved it for the real goddamn episodes...


the ED song is standard j-pop. Nothing great, nothing awful. I thought the OP song wasn't very good, but did enjoy the animation behind it

Quote Originally Posted by Uberbaka
Is it wrong for me to wish that instead of this catching up to the manga they create a third storyline and as a result a third anime?

Seriously though, they'll hopefully just take a break, Black Lagoon style, if they catch up and not butcher it Naruto/Kenshin style...
if they took your first option, it would actually be two animes (neither of which would 'faithfully' encapsulate the manga), and then just the manga.

I have no clue how the time frame for the manga and anime is scheduled. If we have 23 weeks left (assume the anime is 50 episodes), that gives us just about 6 more manga chapters. But what they'll do is beyond me. I can't really predict what they'll do with the manga at this point, but it would seem silly to me for them to do yet ANOTHER divergence anime ending.

guess i'm hoping they stick to the manga, even if that means taking a break. (which it would seem they are not doing, since we just got a brand new OP, which usually signals 13 more episodes, and 39 is a strange episode to take a long break on...)