There is an anime reboot of FullMetal Alchemist airing Japan. It began three weeks ago and if you go onto the Funimation website you can catch it with English subtitles. I am doing this right now. FullMetal Alchemist is one of the best animes I've ever seen. The animation itself is topnotch, the story and concept is very original and compelling, and the characters are all realistic and relatively three dimensional.
I should be happy about a new FullMetal show. But I'm not. Why you ask?
Because we've already had a FullMetal Alchemist show! It had it's run, it was really cool, and we all loved it. We don't need a rehash of something we've already seen with the same characters doing nearly the exact same thing. I don't want something old remade, I want something new newly made.
This new show, as cool as it looks, and it does look really cool, is a clear example of something I've been complaining about for years. A faltering creativity in all forms of narrative media. We can't come up with new ideas so now as we're struggling we're simply getting to the point where we're remaking things we enjoyed before.
I liked FullMetal Alchemist the first time I saw it. I don't need to see it again.
I don't want something cool like FullMetal Alchemist, I want something as cool as FullMetal Alchemist.
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I think I read somewhere that this series is going to be based more heavily on the original manga. So far I'm liking the first anime series better. It slowly introduced us to the characters and staggered their intros. This new one just seems to be throwing them at us and I almost get the sense that it expects us to know who they are already.
I suppose I can try reading the manga to see if that's the case there too or if it's a strictly tv thing.
This bugs me too man.
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