Am I missing something? I'm 20 episodes in and the only reason I haven't dropped it is the thought of people telling me "Oh you didn't get to the good part." until the day I fucking die.
The world building is trash, the visuals are only okay by today's standards, the OST is generic as fuck, the fights are terrible and I've seen everything the so called best anime ever made does done better in other anime.
First the world building: What the fuck does a Führer President do? I can't even be sure if he's just the military leader or the leader of the whole country. It seems to be implied it's the latter yet we see him do fucking nothing. (queue the political jokes). The vaguely German country is somehow perfectly circular like this is fucking Attack on Titan, with faux China to the east after a random desert in the middle and faux Russia to the north because obviously the north is cold. Now, a lot of series do the "our world but altered" thing but this is the worst version of that I've yet to see. I'm not even well-read and I'm sure I'd be able to find you dozens of better examples.
As for the fights, why are they so gods damned generic? They have the power to manipulate all matter LITERALLY at their fingertips SO WHY ARE THEY JUST MELEE FIGHTING THEIR ENEMIES?! Ed and Al are the worst offenders of that but no character fights creatively. Roy Mustang who I'd heard so much about just makes fire. That's it. He doesn't use it creatively at all and acts like he's completely defenceless when wet. HIS KRYPTONITE IS FUCKING WATER! WHY?! HE ONLY SPECIALISES IN FIRE, HE SHOULD STILL BE ABLE TO USE OTHER KINDS OF ALCHEMY. (And don't get me started on how he clearly creates the fires out of nothing without transmuting shit)
As for the story itself, Ed and Al have zero agency. Everthing happens to them and the bad guy team is always so far ahead that they really have no way to do anything about it. And it's easy to root for their endgoal and all but when they have literally no idea how to get there it's a bit hard to be hyped up about it. And by all that may or may not be divine, STOP WITH THE SHORT JOKES, THEY STOPPED BEING FUNNY BY EPISODE 3! They keep undercutting genuinely emotional scenes (as rare as those are) with very unfunny comedy. I'd really like to see the hollow husk of a human who laughs every time Ed massively overreacts to something and put him out of his misery.
I've seen everything done here done better in much less well regarded anime. Jujutsu Kaisen especially does literally everything here better but even MHA beats this piece of shit when it comes to fights. And if I just have to watch something about vaguely German wizards mixed into the military in an early 1900s world, Tanya is a lot more compelling.
It's just, what am I missing? I wouldn't even consider this mid, it's below average, nothing about it works. If this was my first anime I probably would've never touched another one. Please either somehow prove me wrong on this largely subjective tirade or confirm my beliefs by agreeing.
Caleb Cox
didn't read, shit bait
Isaac Green
It's grossly overrated by people who watched it on TV and think its "za best things" because they only watched 5 shows.
I've seen lots of shonen with way more entertaining plot progression and fights.
Nathaniel Powell
I ain't gonna effortpost for some braindead retard
I gave it the 3 episode rule before I dropped it. Should have trusted my gut & dropped it after 5 minutes though
Benjamin Evans
user, it's a 6-7/10 anime that got really popular because it was people's first anime. It's the same shit as Naruto or Dragon Ball. It's not a bad show, it's just generic by today's standards and if you unironically hate it so much, then stop watching generic anime.
Michael Gray
>Naruto or Dragon Ball. These two are influential, and on a completely different league. I've never seen anything influenced by FMA.
Gavin Morgan
>It's not a bad show I think it's bad and even by old days standards I never found it interesting.
Grayson Lee
>(And don't get me started on how he clearly creates the fires out of nothing without transmuting shit) I don't know why it's called flame alchemy, either. It's actually oxygen alchemy that lets him move around the oxygen in the air, then snaps his fingers to create a spark that ignites it (his gloves are specially engineered to do that).
Cooper Cook
>What the fuck does a Führer President do? I can't even be sure if he's just the military leader or the leader of the whole country. >The vaguely German country is somehow perfectly circular like this is fucking Attack on Titan Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm truly makes one ponder...
Ayden Gray
Thats what you get for not watching the orignal one.
Jonathan Morales
Sure, they're influential, but they're not really that good. I certainly wouldn't recommend watching them. Fair enough, I think I enjoyed it as one of my first anime, but even then, it got kinda tedious around the halfway point. Just accept that normalfags will prop up ok shows because they don't know what truly good anime is.
Angel Gonzalez
Wow, a FMA thread not made by crocfag? It's a miracle
Carson Long
Imagine making a review for a series before finishing it. Your opinion is worthless
Julian Reyes
You have some valid points in your first post, but then you had to drop the Jumptrash anime adaptations as better examples of what FMA tried to do a decade ago when in fact these three aren't even similar in fashion, like at all, so you are obviously baiting hard.
Asher Wood
I read it as a little kid and loved it. Also loved the first animee. I still enjoyed the second one years later but not as much. Maybe it's one of the shows with a ~50% nostalgia bonus.
>And don't get me started on how he clearly creates the fires out of nothing without transmuting shit I thin I remember this: He concentrated oxygen in a floating ball and a thin line to his hand, then ignited it with his special spark snap gloves - and those didn't work when wet, inda like matches.
