Let me tell you something, people
I’ve seen a lot of lists about which one is the best anime series of all time. Every time Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is either at 1-st place or at least in top 5. Even so I think that people don’t talk enough about it. I don’t know why, but sometimes I have this feeling that people forget about FMA at all.
You know what? When I think about it, FMA is quiet different than most anime series at all. Even if it’s considered a classic shounen anime, it’s still different.
First of all, the shounen series are considered as anime with a lot of episodes, like hundreds of episodes are spent to tell us the single story of how the main character is trying to achieve his goal. But FMA doesn’t have that much of an episodes and you can even count the filer episodes in both series with your fingers. This anime still was able to tell it’s amazing story without that much of animation.
I’ve seen lately one specific cliche about anime where the power of friendship is so overrated. Like hell you can beat a giant monster just with some words from your friends. I’m not hating anyone or anything here. This just doesn’t make sense to me at all. But in Fullmetal alchemist, the lessons you receive are extremely useful and they can help you in your life. Like how we can’t run from our mistakes, but we have to accept them and move forward. Even the classic love stories you can see in other series are put aside here. For example Roy and Riza’s relationship. They are both in love with each other and that’s so obvious for us, but instead of seeing them as a couple, we see them as superior officer and subordinate, who are keeping their relationship professional at most of the time, cause they have this greater goal to achieve, to change their country for the sake of, and cause of the frat laws, of course.
Even Ed and Winry, who ended up together, didn’t have even a single kiss in the end.
The romantic relationships in FMA are different, because they don’t have to give you a kiss scene or something like that, so you can know these characters love each other. It’s much more about respect, duty and real, not sexualized affection, and I think that makes the FMA ships really beautiful and touching.
When we see other anime series, it’s easy to find something sexual in them. It seems like if one anime doesn’t have some kind of fan service, it’ll not be that popular. FMA on the other hand have extremely small amount of fan service. Even when something is sexualized a bit, it doesn’t feel like that.
One of the things that annoys me a lot is how some people consider a certain character useless for the story. It’s like another form of hate about the series. In Brotherhood every character is necessary. Every character have a it’s own role.
Those were some of the things I think that makes Fullmetal alchemist brotherhood different and unique. Still, even this franchise have his flaws, but a love how FMA beats up a lot of anime stereotypes. That’s why I think people have to talk about it much more. Just don’t forget how great this franchise is, okay?
