Look, the show is fun and a-okay, and I urge anybody who is a dedicated hater when it comes to popular shonen but makes an exception for FMAB to do some self-reflection. And more importantly, they might have for once agreed with the students that the curtains really aren't red for some highly sophisticated reason. Dialogue often sounds like sentence prompts your English teacher might have warned you not to use in your creative writing - think "and then he woke up". It seems to me that this dieselpunk, "thoughtful" aesthetic is really what makes it most appealing to its fans along with their love for the source material. Social and philosophical "themes" are present in the same way as in Christopher Nolan films in that they are more so shower thoughts than developed concepts the show enjoys the aesthetic of being complex for its genre without any of the meat. The soundtrack might as well not be there, and the way in which episodes are sequenced achieves the spectacular shonen duality of being entirely predictable while at the same time coming off as decided by a random number generator. It relies on one-trope characters, juvenile humour, and fight scenes which should more often than not be forgotten as soon as they finish. There’s nothing inherently wrong with shonen, but there are facts regarding it that exist by virtue of the group it aims to appeal to. necessary if we are to actually say anything about it.
METAL ALCHEMIST MANGA 3 SERIES
On one hand, a banal exercise in naming generic and undesirable characteristics of the entire shonen umbrella genre doesn't feel worthy of such a highly distinguished series in terms of reception. This places discussion regarding its faults in an awkward position. Due to the show's reputation, they attempt to describe its flaws on terms unique to itself, at times plunging into an absurd level of nitpicking, but the essence is always the same. The show is alright, and what the vast majority of lengthy, mixed reviews of FMAB are trying to get at is simply that it's a shonen. After years of training, the Elric brothers set off on a quest to restore their bodies by locating the Philosopher's Stone-a powerful gem that allows an alchemist to defy the traditional laws of Equivalent Exchange.Īs Edward becomes an infamous alchemist and gains the nickname "Fullmetal," the boys' journey embroils them in a growing conspiracy that threatens the fate of the world. Known as a bio-mechanical engineering prodigy, Winry creates prosthetic limbs for Edward by utilizing "automail," a tough, versatile metal used in robots and combat armor. The brothers are rescued by their neighbor Pinako Rockbell and her granddaughter Winry. Instead, they suffered brutal personal loss: Alphonse's body disintegrated while Edward lost a leg and then sacrificed an arm to keep Alphonse's soul in the physical realm by binding it to a hulking suit of armor. Ignoring the alchemical principle banning human transmutation, the boys attempted to bring their recently deceased mother back to life. After a horrific alchemy experiment goes wrong in the Elric household, brothers Edward and Alphonse are left in a catastrophic new reality.
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