{"id":952,"date":"2011-09-28T08:18:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T14:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=952"},"modified":"2011-09-28T08:18:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T14:18:28","slug":"fma-brotherhood-i-miss-you-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2011\/09\/fma-brotherhood-i-miss-you-already\/","title":{"rendered":"FMA: Brotherhood &#8211; I Miss You Already"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adult Swim finished up its run of <a title=\"Good anime is hard to find these days.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fullmetal_Alchemist#Fullmetal_Alchemist:_Brotherhood\" target=\"_blank\">Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood<\/a> this past weekend. The 64-episode series was my favorite anime on Adult Swim since <a title=\"You can't undo these types of deletions.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2008\/07\/delete-delete-delete\/\" target=\"_blank\">Death Note<\/a>, and the ending did not disappoint.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EdAndScar.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-953  aligncenter\" title=\"You can crush my arm, but you can't crush my spirit... ahh, my spirit.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EdAndScar-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EdAndScar-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/EdAndScar.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brotherhood followed the manga more closely than the original series, and thus I think it remained more focused than its predecessor. There were few, if any, filler episodes &#8211; their storylines were crisp and fast paced (definitely something <a title=\"Ugh... and it had so much promise.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bleach_%28manga%29#Anime\" target=\"_blank\">Bleach<\/a> has not been able to do the past few years).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth mentioning that the original series was still pretty entertaining. In fact, <a title=\"You can't have enough Full Metal articles.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theicecave.org\/damage_control\/2011\/06\/flame-day-2011--fullmetal-alch.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> is a good article discussing the value in both versions. I think Brotherhood was just above and beyond fantastic. I don&#8217;t know what Adult Swim has planned to replace it in its lineup, but it will certainly have big shoes to fill. Here&#8217;s hoping it isn&#8217;t <a title=\"How bad was it? It made me miss Gun Grave.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Casshern_Sins\" target=\"_blank\">Casshern<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adult Swim finished up its run of Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood this past weekend. The 64-episode series was my favorite anime on Adult Swim since Death Note, and the ending did not disappoint. Brotherhood followed the manga more closely than the original series, and thus I think it remained more focused than its predecessor. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fullmetal-alchemist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}