oh god so many different bands lmao my favorites at the moment would have to be isles and glaciers, the devil wears prada, dance gavin dance, and pierce the veil, hbu?
No, I didn't. I'm not really much of a manga reader: the only one I've read is Kodocha. I hate watching on youtube as well. I actually haven't seen too many of the shippuden episodes: I haven't watched since they found sasuke in orochimaru's hideout.
Don't worry, you aren't missing much with those two. Yeah, I liked naruto. And I agree: the subs are better. Everyone sounds a lot more mature in the subs than in the dubs.
I never read the manga either. I was just told by a lot of people that it was a lot closer to the manga. It is much more fast paced than the original. Have you ever seen anything like soul eater or yu yu hakusho or anything like that?
It's a lot better than the original because in the original every little adventure they take has to be like... five episodes and they get boring as opposed to it taking one episode in 'brotherhood'. FMA: brotherhood has almost the same storyline as the original, but after a few episodes they go in completely different directions since brotherhood follows the manga and the original FMA doesn't.