Fullmetal Alchemist Series
Tagged under Hiromu Arakawa, BONES, Series.
"You can't gain something without sacrificing something else of the equal value. This is the principle of the equivalent
trade."
The story takes place in an alternate world from ours in the early 1900's. Two young brothers,
older Edward Elric and younger Alphonse Elric, live with their mother Trisha in the small village of Resembool. Their
father left home when they were still very young, but Ed and Al inherited his passion for alchemy.
1909.
On a fine day, Trisha dies of an unknown illness, leaving her two sons orphans. Ed blames his father for Trisha's death
and wants to find a way to bring her back to life. At this time, Ed was 10, Al 9. When Edward finds out about flesh
forging in an alchemy book that belonged to his father, he engages in an intense training with Al in order to be able to
perform a human transmutation.
On February 1910, the Elric brothers cross the forbidden line trying to
resurrect their mom. The attempt ends in a complete failure. In the process, Ed loses his left leg and Al his whole
body. In a last try full of despair, Ed uses alchemy to restore his brother's spirit putting it in a suit of mail, at
the further cost of his right arm. When Al wakes up in the armour, he suddenly realizes what happened and takes his
unconscious injured brother to the neighbours, the Rockbells.
After that day, the two decide to embark on
a journey to find the legendary Philosopher's Stone, rumoured to create anything from nothing, in hopes of getting back
their original bodies.
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Dizburazngurl's Fullmetal Alchemist Tv Review
Rated:
Overall, Fullmetal Alchemist had a steady pace but did happen to drag along at time-piling the suspense. Near the end,
it did seem to be rushed quite a bit but it could also be that the producers planned it that way. They wanted it to be
so much at one time to increase the drama and intensity.
What made Fullmetal Alchemist such a prized anime, was that it had just a bit of everything-not to much or not to
little. Filled with lots of humor, intense action and even the horrors of reality.
Fullmetal Alchemist is overall not the average predictable anime that you'd expect. For one, not everything turns out
perfectly.
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Member Opinions
Brotherhood ending was amazing (simply because I'm a family-loving-ending-person). The whole brotherhood series was really good. Only thing I wish was that Ed was more 'special'. The series is about him (it's named after his state alch name) but he wasn't as main as he was in the other version I think. However!! He was still awesome in both and the brotherhood series was really well done and amazing to watch. Love the credits the most though, simply because of that one picture (you all know what I'm talkin' about) that made it awesome. ^-^
tashioroxas rated 10.00:
This is my number one favorite of all time...Though in the beginning I found it kinda stupid T^T How I regret
that.....
Anyway moving on I love the soundtrack, the plot, the characters and basically everything in the anime!
Each characters storyline is unique and moving...I love Ed and Al's storyline the most though....
I have seen all of the first season and liked it (and own it), and I have also just finished the Brotherhood season. The movie was also decent. I liked the first season, never got bored although parts were easy to predict. Good mix of action and comedy. The Brotherhood season is awesome. I can easily predict what's going to happen because I have read the manga, but the manga has an awesome story line (it's currently my favorite manga), this the animation is also awesome. Would recommend to most people.
CrescentArcher rated 9.75:The drama and characters were really good, the ending wasn't as good as the manga though. I wanted Edward to be the hero who lived and instead of that happening he just went to another world therefore he was like the hero who died. not to mention I wanted to see what would happen between him and Winrey.
yuzu369 rated 9.50:This anime is amazing! It was my second anime, which my cousins recommended me. Hiromu Arakawa had great idea for plotline! Making alchemy similiar to magic was very original. And of course studio Bones did great job as ever (as one of my favourite studios ^_^). Also watching "Brotherhood" without reading manga first was like discovering this series for new. If you ask me, in fact "Brotherhood" was much better, maybe because it was based on manga.