Try Youtube! It looks like they have nice, high-quality, official subs on there.
When I first got into FMA I was getting them concurrently, though with a lag -- I'd initially encountered the series via scanslations of the first couple of volumes, then started watching the anime as the new episodes were released and fansubbed. At some point, though, I moved and a lot of other things happened, and when I went back and got caught up with the anime via the official releases, I never got caught up with the manga as well. It's interesting because it's the same story with the same characters, and yet -- so very different!
And heh, yeah, I definitely see what you mean about keeping up with the plot! It helps for me that when I stopped reading the manga, it was still following the anime pretty closely -- and I remember the early part of the anime fairly well, so I didn't have too much trouble re-orienting myself. But we're definitely off into new territory now.
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When I first got into FMA I was getting them concurrently, though with a lag -- I'd initially encountered the series via scanslations of the first couple of volumes, then started watching the anime as the new episodes were released and fansubbed. At some point, though, I moved and a lot of other things happened, and when I went back and got caught up with the anime via the official releases, I never got caught up with the manga as well. It's interesting because it's the same story with the same characters, and yet -- so very different!
And heh, yeah, I definitely see what you mean about keeping up with the plot! It helps for me that when I stopped reading the manga, it was still following the anime pretty closely -- and I remember the early part of the anime fairly well, so I didn't have too much trouble re-orienting myself. But we're definitely off into new territory now.