Well for me I was looking at different anime's to watch and I found a FMA Brotherhood episode on Adult Swim,and decided to record it and watch it,and I instantly got hooked the episode,so many of the characters in the anime are so likable!:p,anyway a couple of months later I discovered the 03 anime series and decided to watch it,so that's how it went for me!

The first anime is what made me fall so hard for FMA in the first place.

And then I devoured the original manga and fell for it harder.

And now that I've seen the last episode of Brotherhood in English, I'm falling EVEN HARDER. GUHHHH, PLEASE GOD DON'T LET FMA EVER FADE AWAY. Anime, manga, Brotherhood, ALL OF IT. IT'S TOO BEAUTIFUL. T_T

^ I feel the same way! I can't believe the last episode of brotherhood in english ended...well said! all I can now is ditto,well to the last past,because it was the opposite in the anime for me but did read the original manga first..but that's a different story.so yeah,but did you watch any of the OVA's,they great too!^^

For me I watched the Original Anime first and like Dearheart it's what got me hooked on it. But to be Brotherhood is diffenetly better, they ruined the First anime ending to me it just got really stupid. It was wonderful untell the ending, I guess that's why I like Brotherhood so much, because it was perfect all the way threw.

^^I agree with you there. I don't think the IDEA of the ending was stupid necessarily (it had a lot of potential, and I've always LOVED the idea of parallel worlds haha), but the way it was carried out was kinda lame and depressing. I hate sad, melodramatic endings.

For me it's like this:

First anime beginning = GORGEOUS AND AMAZING.
Brotherhood beginning = HORRIBLY SCREWED UP.

First anime ending = HORRIBLY SCREWED UP.
Brotherhood ending = GORGEOUS AND AMAZING.

So really, just stick the two together and you'll have the perfect anime adaptation. XD

Lol to me it's probably:

First anime beginning = AMAZING.
Brotherhood beginning = GORGEOUS AND AMAZING.

First anime ending = HORRIBLY SCREWED UP
Brotherhood ending = FREAKIN GORGEOUS AND AMAZING!

But that's just me, I just thought Brotherhood was amazing all the way through. We have the first episode of Brotherhood on our DVR and My little sister and I can't stop watching it. No matter how many times Ed say "Give him back, he's my brother! Just give him back, he's my little brother he's all I have left!" I still get teary eyed. T.T So to me, I just think Brotherhood and the manga were 100% perfect. Maybe it's because the manga wasn't done yet, but I really think they messed up the first anime, I agree the idea was kinda good. But they really messed it up, it really upsets me that the anime was good at first but as it went along it got stupid.