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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood: where to start reading

Adapts Fullmetal Alchemist (manga) by Hiromu Arakawa. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.

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After Complete series (64 episodes), in the books you are

at Fullmetal Alchemist (manga).

anime ends at manga chapter 108 (Journey's End, the final chapter).

Brotherhood adapts the complete 27-volume, 108-chapter manga through chapter 108 (Journey's End). If you finished the anime you have seen the whole story. There is nothing after it to read; the manga is the same arc with a little more detail and minor differences in the closing scenes.

Start reading at Read the manga from Chapter 1 (it tells the same story Brotherhood adapts, to the same ending)
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Complete series (64 episodes) leaves off around read the manga from chapter 1 (it tells the same story brotherhood adapts, to the same ending). Pick the manga up right there:

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What the show changed here

  • MovedBrotherhood opens on an original military episode; the manga's first chapter becomes episode 3.
  • ChangedThe early arcs are heavily compressed compared with the 2003 anime, reaching new material faster.
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Brotherhood (64 episodes) adapts the entire manga to its ending. Because the final episodes were produced from storyboards before the last chapter published, there are minor staging differences at the very end, but the same conclusion. Note that the earlier 2003 anime is a different adaptation which invents its own second half; if that is the one you watched, it has its own page here and a different answer.

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