User blog comment:Crispycol/Anime All-Stars XXL/@comment-10603955-20130416001145/@comment-1982746-20130417212255

The plots differ at a certain point since brotherhood tells the plot of the manga where as about half way through the original started telling its own story, but you still get the most same characters acting in the same ay, and that's FMA strength in both series. If you want to see how they differ then watching both is fine, I was just saying that if you only have time for one go for brotherhood.