http://lampbane.livejournal.com/444159.html

"Last night's tome of choice was vol. 14 of Fullmetal Alchemist. Not exactly the loftiest of reading materials, but I've been buying the series since they released it in English and I've been really digging it. I'm far past the point where the anime diverged from the manga, so I really have no idea what's going to happen, which is nice. I hate when manga comes out after the anime based on it - the manga is usually better, but now the surprise is gone.

I vastly prefer the manga version of events to what happens in the anime. I found the anime to be too neat, too circular. Everything seemed to tie together, even things that shouldn't have, things that you could tell weren't supposed to. (I'm mostly thinking of Dante and Rose here.) While the manga does focus on its particular characters and there's a relationship to everything, it still feels open." ( )