User blog comment:Fcabral53/No Subject Only a fan Blog/@comment-1318060-20110130020340

Well, it wasn't really an "American version" of the story. Both anime series were produced and broadcast in Japan before being brought over to America and translated to English. The difference between the 2003 anime and Brotherhood is just that the FMA original manga hadn't gotten very far when the first anime was made, so the producers had to improvise. But now that the manga's finished, Brotherhood was able to cover all the events up to the end.