This is going to be a list of all the animes I have watched. I will make an special chapter for those I like the least or the most giving my personal opinion about them.
I will also make a list of the animes I still want to watch.
Disclaimer: I haven't read the manga or watch the previous anime (Fullmetal 2003) and I am not planning on doing so. Well, maybe I would buy the original manga after learning Japanese.
WHY I LIKED IT SO MUCH
Characters
I fell i love with all of them: Al, Ed, Winry, Mustang, Hawkeye, Paniya, Hoenheim, Ling, Lan Fan, May, Izumi, the whole Armstrong family... Even Scar and Envy (to be honest at first I wanted them to die at fast as possible but I ended up loving them). Well, I still hate Kimblee. He must burn in hell.
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No useless girls
If there is one thing I hate about anime and Japanese culture in general is the way girls are treated. They always appear in stories like useless and fragile princess who need the help of a man and only care about being cute and feminine. It is impossible for me to feel identified with them.
Fortunately, it is not the case in fma and there is not one single useless girl. God bless the creator. It makes me think that the creator made it thinking about making a place for girls in shonen.
The plot
It doesn't get boring in any point. The story is full of plot twists and everything makes sense in the end. This is something a lot of animes lack. It looks like in Japan they are really good making intros and new worlds but no one thinks about how to end the story. Not the case in fma.
Philosophical moments
The anime is full of them and I love it. It makes you think a lot about everything and change your actual life. I love when I start a story being a person and I end it being a better one. This happens in fmab.
But at some moments it makes you think "HOW ARE THEY THINKING ABOUT THAT, THEY ARE ELEVEN YEARS OLD. WHEN I WAS THAT AGE I WAS PLAYING WITH DOLLS".
This video sums it up pretty well
And much more
I must mention the amazing music, the amazing art style, the amazing world it creates (with a bunch of historical references)... It is a masterpiece.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
Skeptical
I am not a big fan of shonen, I am sorry. I get easily bored of fight scenes in anime and shonen = fight scenes. When my brother told me to watch fma i didn't know if I should believe him. He had to tell me the creator was a girl to please the feminist inside of me. I have to say that I didn't get bored of the fight scenes in fma, they were pretty cool.
Damn spoilers
I wish I didn't tell my brother I didn't want to watch it a while ago, because then he told me what happened with Nina. So when I watched the 5th chapter I wasn't as impressed as I should have been and I regret it so much T.T
Sonic Speed
I have never watched an anime so fast. It has 64 chapters and I watched it in 5 days, letting just the last 3 chapters for the last day. This means that some days I watched close to 20 chapters, which means 8 hours of anime. Well, maybe you are a sick weeb and this means nothing to you but it is really crazy in my case.
This last days I have been waking up at 8 a.m. After a few episodes I had breakfast and after another few episodes I went for a run. After lunchtime I turned on the laptop and I watched fma until 11 p.m. And I have no regrets. I would do it again.
My poor heart
It is broken. After so long without watching anime, the end of fma opened a really big hole in my chest and I don't now how to fill it. Because of that I do things like watching fma memes, fanarts, following a bunch of pages about it, downloading a lot of images, writing a Wattpad story about how much I loved it... But the hole is still there. Help me. I have thought about watching Silver Spoon, since the creator is the same. I should be studying, damn it.
