Tag: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
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Feast or Filler? Full Metal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos
Read More →: Feast or Filler? Full Metal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of MilosNew anime movies rarely come to southern California (they tend to go instead to Viz’s theater in San Francisco) so I jumped at the chance to see the Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood movie at the Burbank Film Festival. The movie, titled The Sacred Star of Milos, is the first Full Metal Alchemist movie set in…
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Special Edition
Read More →: Special EditionI’m a perfectionist. Being a perfectionist isn’t about being perfect, it’s about being unhappy with your work when it isn’t. Sometimes you have to ignore that impulse and just release your creation to the world. Sometimes though, you get a second chance. George Lucas epitomises this phenomena. Audiences didn’t appreciate it when Lucas revised Star…
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How to watch your anime
Read More →: How to watch your animeWhen I watch a new show on TV in the United States I watch each show as it is released, one episode a week. Until recently I watched anime in a very different way, I would watch anime after all the episodes were released, usually four or five episodes at each sitting. This led to…
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The snowy nights and racing trains of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Read More →: The snowy nights and racing trains of Fullmetal Alchemist: BrotherhoodChoosing the best anime of 2009 is no contest for me, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood wins it hands down every time.
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Fullmetal Alchemist is overlooked as horror
Read More →: Fullmetal Alchemist is overlooked as horrorSomething that ‘outsiders’ probably don’t realise about Fullmetal Alchemist is just how grotesque and disturbing it can be for mainstream shonen; it has never been a story that shys away from death, even when the victims are cute little girls and their pet dogs! This lurched back into focus during episode 20 of Brotherhood, when…
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A love letter to FMA: Brotherhood #19 and why I love anime
Read More →: A love letter to FMA: Brotherhood #19 and why I love animeI still read my fair share of blogs and forums, so I had something of an inkling that this episode of Brotherhood was going to be quite special, but even still, I loved it to pieces, and once the credits were finally rolling, all I could think is that this was the exact moment that…
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So, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is bad because it isn't a perfect adaptation of the manga?
Read More →: So, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is bad because it isn't a perfect adaptation of the manga?I’m really enjoying Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. I haven’t read the manga, but I loved the first anime, even when it diverged from the source material, so I’m not someone that demands an adaptation be a frame-for-frame duplicate, it just has to be good! Anime is a totally different medium of entertainment to manga and as…