![]() ![]() And finally we have the big revelation, which inevitably leads to the main character landing in the arms of the then-companion-now-lover. There’s the constant fight and the existential self questioning. The characters typically live under an oppressing system, which always keeps a big dark secret (usually about the meaning of life) from the rest of the world, but mostly from the main characters. ![]() ![]() There are of course a couple of companions, preferably one big chested female, who are always sticking with the protagonist, no matter what – in the most literal sense of the words. dead parents, a missing sibling, an urge to find the absent father figure, who always knows the reason why the main character is suffering and will bring closure and the end to the constant search that is adolescence. You are surely familiar with the outlook: the main character is a teenager, who always has some sort of deficiency, e.g. You realize this when you start watching the series as everything is somehow familiar and kind of comforting in a silly-naive sort of way. There is this thing with great anime (or manga): the repetition of the basic plot type, rendered with minor deviations into millions of different but basically the same stories. However, regardless of the version, Fullmetal Alchemist is thought to be the one of the most if not THE most popular anime of all time in Japan. ![]() Actually there are two of them: the older one does not follow the manga entirely (it aired before the end of the original manga and so it has, inevitably, a different ending), but the newest one Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is mostly sticking to the original plot and is being praised in this article. The series was incredibly successful and was adapted twice into animated TV series and film, got transformed into games, novels, translated in numerous languages and gathered a huge fan base.īut let’s focus on the TV series. The author Hiromu Arakawa later gathered all chapters and published them in 27 volumes. It was published between 20 in Monthly Shonen Gangan magazine (a magazine with more than 600 pages filled with serialised manga). * This is guest post written by Klara ZalokarĪlthough placing an anime next to renowned TV series such as The Sopranos, Breaking Bad and The Wire may seem a little childish this particular one shiningly stands out of the awesomeness that is the anime universe.įirst of all let’s check some background information about Fullmetal Alchemist.Īs it usually happens with great anime, this one originally appeared as a modest manga series. ![]()
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