Fullmetal Alchemist: A Monumental Review

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  @Kurogane72 · 2 years ago

  Too bad you couldn't have dropped this yesterday. Father's day would have been a hilarious day to drop an FMA video. The entire spectrum of fathers exist in this show.

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• LU

  @lucyharfillia6200 · 2 years ago

  Hearing Roy be called Ron Mustang sends me every time

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• SH

  @Shovelchicken · 2 years ago

  Izumi wanted her child back, so she lost the ability to have one.<br>Mustang had a vision of a better world, so he lost the ability to see it.<br>Alphonse wanted to feel his mothers warmth, so he lost the ability to feel anything.<br>Edward wanted to stand on his own two feet and protect his family with his own two hands, so he loses an arm and a leg.<br>Hohenheim wants his freedom, and becomes a prison for thousands of others.<br><br>or something. The point is, each character that sees the gate/performs human transmutation loses something related to their desire.

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• MA

  @machodgdon · 2 years ago (edited)

  Bro casually dropped a movie

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• AU

  @auraemerald8434 · 2 years ago

  To me, FullMetal Alchemist is the closest any show has ever gotten to a perfect narrative. Great pacing, great characters, great story, great mystery, great action, great payoffs. Of course, everything is subjective and it isn’t quite my favorite show ever for reasons, but the stumbles it makes are so small and the story resonated with me in such a special way that I will never forget it.

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• QU

  @quelard · 2 years ago

  Fullmetal Alchemist.<br><br>...<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Fullmetal Alchemist.

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• XE

  @Xenithflare · 2 years ago

  I said it on the original review, but I&apos;ll say it again: I prefer Brotherhood&apos;s slow-burn that is Hoenheim. They basically introduced everything around him without providing any actual answers about him directly. His mysterious travels, his hints about a long life, the wild confusion Father brought along... It wasn&apos;t until the Dwarf in the Flask backstory in Xerxes that we got any answers and it. Was. Incredible. The build up that eventually culminated in the answers to everything was perfect storytelling; even the pacing of the backstory itself was impressive because even while it was unfolding it still held things back until the very end. Who is this homunculus? Who is the slave? What story is it even telling? OH ONLY THE ENTIRE STORY OF FMA

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• NE

  @NeonZeppy · 2 years ago

  Fullmetal Alchemist is a perfect story. Not genre-redefining like Star Wars or Dragon Ball, but the way it is executed is so utterly perfect from start to finish. It has gripping and relatable characters the audience truly feels connected to, it&apos;s plot is rich with mystery and the twists and turns keep the audience engaged and eager throughout, and (most importantly) it pays off everything it sets up so satisfyingly. Most of all the happy ending feels earned without becoming too saccharin. The characters that die stay dead, and Ed can&apos;t use alchemy anymore as the cost of stopping Father. It is very happy and uplifting, but the cost of the adventure is still there.<br><br>People say that Avatar TLA is the peak of modern fiction, that it is the standard-bearer for a perfectly told story. I think FMA deserves to be in that conversation too as an equal. FMA doesn&apos;t &quot;deserve more love&quot; (the actions its fans have taken on myanimelist show it has enough), but I think the manga deserves to be re-evaluated for just how good it actually is. Arakawa created a piece of art that did what so few other pieces of art fail to do (definitively at least): tell a story perfectly.

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• TR

  @trise2033 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Fun fact: As far as i can tell, the word &quot;fullmetal&quot; is used in exactly one other context: &quot;fullmetal jacket&quot; ammunition. Basically, this is a bullet design that allows faster muzzle velocity, minimal barrel transfer, and effective armor piercing. This is relevant here, because Ed constantly barrels forward, punching through whatever resistance he meets, leaving as little of himself behind as possible.

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  @mrrd4444 · 2 years ago

  I love that we live in a world where the greatest shonen manga/anime ever created was created by a woman ;) But seriously, Hiromi-sensei is the GOAT not just for the art and storytelling and her skills as a mangaka and her brilliance in research, but the fact that she&apos;s a grounded, ordinary person, a mother of 3 and farmer who understands the world on such a base level that her grandest and most world-spanning stories feel so human. A humble genius &lt;3

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  @Pir-o · 2 years ago (edited)

  I always liked that every single homunculus dies from a reason related to their deadly sins.<br><br>Gluttony gets eaten, Sloth dies from exhaustion etc. Very clever.

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  @Grapefruit_cosplay · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krkhA_K__PI&amp;t=3108">51:48</a> that moment particularly tickles me in the English dub since Laura Baliey ( Lust&apos;s VA) and Travis Willingham (Mustang) ended up getting married a few years later 😂

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