The Best Animated Series I Have Ever Seen...
That's right, this series isn't just one of the best Anime I've seen, it is the epitome of Anime in my mind, and one of the best animated television series I have ever experienced. Okay, so I'm a newbie who just finished the series and is on a bit of a high from the experience but I stand by my statements. Due to a series of random events I actually wound up buying the entire series just a few weeks ago and watching it for the first time. I bought the 5 separate Blu-ray releases that are currently available, it cost me substantially more than this set (about $200 total), but I'm still happy I did it, that's how much I love this series. So if you like this series and don't yet own it on DVD/Blu then you have to buy this repackaged Collection 1 set, in my opinion, there is nothing else to it.
This set includes the first 33 episodes of the series. A nice even breaking point that leaves the remaining 34 episodes on the eventual Collection 2.
As far as the episodes, yeah...
Fullmetal Alchemist Done Right.
I began in 2011 watching this series on Cartoon Network/Adult Swim with much scepticism already in hand. After all I have already seen and own the original Fullmetal Alchemist series and the movie. What was Funimation doing, milking us the fans with the same series with minor twists?
At first it seems this way. Granted the very first episode is radically different than the first episode of the first series. Still for about 8 episodes these series side by side are very much the same. THEN a divergence happened, things started to radically change. The two series were no longer mirrors of each. In time I actually had forgotten about the original series, the new rendition is that good.
Plot wise this series is a 10 out of 10, versus the original which I now rate a 5 out of 10. The Humunculi are really delved into in this series. There are better ones than in the first series. PLUS, all the original voices returned for this series, which is another 10 for...
Impossible to Regret Watching
I will begin this review by telling you who I am, so that you can compare your tastes to mine. I am a high school girl with all college classes. I enjoy books and anime that allow me to use my brain. This is my fourth anime. I enjoyed Black Butler/Kuroshitsuji very much, but did not appreciate the yaoi-driven fandom. I fell in love with the world of Soul Eater upon the first episode for the sheer hilarity of it- and this is where I begin with my review on Fullmetal Alchemist. If you have seen Soul Eater and enjoyed it, you should absolutely watch this. While FMA:B is most certainly not a comedy, a significant portion of SE's story line is based off of it, as well as the fact that Maka Albarn, SE's protagonist, is essentially(and purposefully) a female version of Edward Elric, the protagonist of this series, in back story, personality, and method of defeating enemies. On to the real review.
As far as the technical stuff goes- I absolutely loved the voice team. You will...
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