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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Oct. 27th, 2019 05:40 pmFor my birthday this year, Martin bought me Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. We started watching it, at about three episodes a week and finished it recently.
I thought it was excellent. It is a detailed, compelling story about the Elric brothers, their use of alchemy and those they know and meet. The story begins with a personal tragedy, which they make into a disaster, and goes on to be how they try to recover from it. What I particularly liked is that, being a manga-based series, it was complete when they made it, so it's very consistent (too many series, you can tell, are written a season at a time). That said, it does still have slight elements of "as we went along" - I assume because the manga was created that way.
I really liked Edward himself, Greed, Hawkeye, Mustang and Sloth. Bea loved the panda (or cat, as it was so often called). The number of character arguably expanded a bit too much and some of the early ones disappeared when it would have been nice to see more (the librarian, for example). Also, it slowed down a lot at the end and the last quarter must have taken place within 24 hours.
Overall, though - a lovely series.
I thought it was excellent. It is a detailed, compelling story about the Elric brothers, their use of alchemy and those they know and meet. The story begins with a personal tragedy, which they make into a disaster, and goes on to be how they try to recover from it. What I particularly liked is that, being a manga-based series, it was complete when they made it, so it's very consistent (too many series, you can tell, are written a season at a time). That said, it does still have slight elements of "as we went along" - I assume because the manga was created that way.
I really liked Edward himself, Greed, Hawkeye, Mustang and Sloth. Bea loved the panda (or cat, as it was so often called). The number of character arguably expanded a bit too much and some of the early ones disappeared when it would have been nice to see more (the librarian, for example). Also, it slowed down a lot at the end and the last quarter must have taken place within 24 hours.
Overall, though - a lovely series.
