City of Amnesia

Possibly my favorite Anime of all time, with my favorite Anime character ever in it, Edward Elric. What do you guys think of it? Discuss.

DO NOT WANT!

As far as anime goes, Full Metal Alchemist is way up there. It's a great show and definitely worth a watch. I don't think the movie did the ending justice. I sense future milking. We will see.

Big FMA fan myself, and I still need to watch the movie.

I've been reading the latest chapters on the Internet though and the latest one is pretty good which deals with Hohenheim. And for the hell of it, I'm reading the manga that comes out in bookstores too, even though I'm way beyond that.

Favorite episodes anybody? Mine would have to be the last three episodes and when Greed is killed. Damn, he was an awesome character.
Peace.

Hey guys, here's a little something my friend whipped up, its an FMA AMV, and I got to tell ya, its much better then the usual AMV that's out there. Here's a link to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt3yD0k__Vg

You never explained this by the way?

Anybody here keep up with the manga at all? Until the Greed arc, it pretty much stays the same and then the anime goes its own route. The manga has a lot more, but that's just me. Anyone else?
Peace.

I never read the manga. How EXACTLY do the two diverge? No Dante I assume?

In a number of ways actually...

- There's no Dante, the main villain hits way closer to home.
- The Homonucli differ; Wrath is King Bradley, not Izumi's child, Sloth is a huge Hulk-like creature not the Elrics mother and Pride hasn't been revealed yet.
- The way the Homonucli are created is different as well and have different properties in general.
- Characters' fates differ as well: Shou Tucker and Lust are dead, Yoki is alive and others. Hughes is dead though and Marcoh is still alive.
- Maria Ross was charged with killing Hughes even though it was Envy morphed as well. She fled Central though.
- Alphonse can use alchemy like Edward because he saw the gate and remembered everything in a sense.
- Edward and Alphonse spend a lot of time apart, resulting in different things happening to them.
- A whole set of characters are revealed, such as Lin and his group, Armstrong's sister (whose in the Army with him) and others.

There's a bunch more, but just from that you can how the anime differs from the manga after a certain point.
Peace.

It is just one of those deep down in your heart feelings that one does not need to explain yet still wishes to point out that the subject presented is of no interest to them. So in order to compensate for this psycological phenomena, one uses the term "DO NOT WANT" which can be presented in many forms. For example:
(http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s81/GalateaKusanagi/DoNotWant.jpg)

I don't see an example, the link isn't working I guess. Didn't know there was suppose to be a picture either until I clicked the link to quote this.

Also, if you are interested in FMA, why did you post in the thread in the first place?
Peace.

Hafta say I agree here... There's parts of the show I like, what with the symmetry with the 7 sins and what have you, and the fact that one of the characters is a suit of armor, but really this show was waaaaaay to melodramatic for me to keep up with. It was like Scrubs or something.

I hate Scrubs.

Motherfucker, did you just compare FMA to Zach Braff's Scrubs?

Explain how or, however you Internet jockies say, stfu or gtfo.

Did I do it rite?
Peace.

Hey, I like Scrubs.

I only saw FMA a couple times, and it seemed pretty good despite the fact that I had no idea what was going on. Like the one where they were inexplicably in the Real World during WWI.

Normally I wouldn't explain, but because its you Nine, I'll make an effort.

FMA has the whole "Hey everyone's happy and so and so OH WAIT EVERYONE IN THE TOWN GOT BONEITIS"

I remember that happening once.

Thank you, Money~

And that was one episode. One stand alone, filler episode. Like, it had nothing to do with the entire plot on hand really. You're doing the same thing as Sharpie/me, watching at most three episodes and generalizing the whole series based of that accordingly.

Although, I will admit there is a lot of melodrama from time to time and its does a terrible job at comedy, but the boys go through a lot of shit and the story is still damn good.
Peace.

They seek the one stone... to rule them all! I mean, come on, the story is great, and yeah, it's cheesy at times, but at least it ended and didn't suffer from horrific Inuyasha Syndrome, where they'd spend a hundred episodes in search of one goal and never get anywhere.
War.

True that and the movie? It just ended the whole thing perfectly, despite being open-ended, I doubt they would continue the series any further but it should stay that way.

Fullmetal Alchemist is definitly one of my favorites. The story is good and the art style is very colorful. Some of the important characters are a bit hard to keep track of, but other than that it's a very good anime.

FM isn't bad nor is very good either. It's an average show, still a fun watch though.

Someone else who liked the movie ending? Very nice.

One of my favorite shows on [adult swim], and the manga's even better. I'm not current with the Japanese releases, though.

Anybody else thinking about getting the season sets when they're released?

I'm pretty sure all the episodes are out already on DVD, and have been for a while now.

Watching the series again on adult swim made me realize how much I enjoy FMA, and the last three episodes are up next.
Peace.

They have been on DVD for awhile, yes, but FUNimation will start releasing boxsets containing about four discs each in the coming months (they've already re-released the singles under a lesser price point).

Lately, I've only been paying attention to [adult swim]'s Saturday block, so I haven't been watching it this time around. I'm sure I'd still love it, though.

there was a warning when i typed this... anywho, the movie made a class full of anime-niacs cry.... and poop all over themselves with some extreme emotion...

I've been watching the Season One, Part Two episodes lately; some of the interactions between Ed and Al are really touching.

Actually, it's back on Adult Swim Saturday, before Samarai Champloo and Big O. This one was about the thief using alchemy. Now I've already seen a few episodes that were touching, and several that were all out hilarious, and I would definitely put that one at the top of the hilarious stack.

I like the fact that Ed and Al aren't just brother's by definition, they also act like brothers: They care about each other one minute, and then try to beat the hell out of each other another minute...

That's probably what got me to like Gurren Lagann...

dead people getting reincarnated, people doing the reincarnations and all of it blowing is all i got to say.

I didn't ever reply again, but no, I've seen more than that one episode, and the whole tone of the series is too melodramatic, and to artificially depressing for me. Like, without that, which is really forced, the show has some cool things in it, but... it could have had less to do with just trying to have terrible thing after terrible thing happen to move the story along.

Vile brings up a pretty good point. A lot of the negative events in FMA did seem forced, when you look back on it. Did anyone else think that, seeing the show?
War.

woo bringing this topic back.

There's an official trailer for Full Metal Alchemist ... series 2! out and about on the interwebs (Youtube as well). The official launch for the second FMA series is April of this year.  Supposedly it's not a continuation (like after the plot of Shambala) but rather a retelling of the series closer in line with the manga continuity.

Should be something to look forward to.

Interesting. I can't wait for Vic to start pimping it out at every con.

Well, the series starts in Japan in April :P But I know whatcha mean.

It's actually something interesting to bring up... would be have to recast the show for the English dub? Aaron Dismuke can no longer do the voice of Al (really, like at all)... hmm

It would be interesting to see how casting the dub would be since, like you mentioned Aaron Dismuke has grown up a bit. I know for sure Vic will try an reprise his role, I mean he practically is in every dub these days.

Edit: Speaking of Vic, my brother told me that Vic almost let it slip that some of his songs are going to be in a Guitar Hero style game...oh the lulz that will produce.

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You know, whenever I try to remember what the seven deadly sins are, FMA is always the first thing I think of. ;) unfortunately, i'm always missing at least one...  :-\