Jul 7, 2012
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Anime Review
Introduction
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (FMAB) is the second adaptation from Fullmetal Alchemist (FMA) Manga and a reboot from the first anime which is rather disappointed because the story is not based on manga and rather absurd. Not like the first FMA, FMAB is full based on manga. FMAB is originally aired on TV in Japan from 5 April 2009 until 4 July 2010 and it has 64 episodes. FMAB getting positive critics and being the second highest rating on My Anime List (the biggest anime community) 9,21 from 80,077 voters (23 June 2012)
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FMAB is the story about the struggle
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of two brothers to get a philosopher’s stone, a stone which can grant wish from the owner, for getting their bodies which missed because they broke the Alchemy’s law. The story starts from their childhood. Edward Elric and Alphonse Elric are two brothers who live peacefully in a village with their parent. One day, their father leaves them without reason. not long after that, their mother is sick and passed away. They want to get back their mother from dead because they are loving their mother so much. So, with the knowledge of alchemy from their father’s books and from their teacher. They try to make a human transmutation which is forbidden to do in the alchemy’s law. They get a havoc after doing human transmutation which is failed. The older brother, Edward, lost his left leg and right hand. The younger brother, Alphonse, lost all of the entire body, but fortunately Edward can attach his soul into a suit of armor. They are regret for what they have done but try to forget and getting a better life. Then, they try to get their missing bodies by getting the philosopher’s stone. They must face Obstacles from Homonculus, a rebel hero, and from the government itself to get the stone. And their journey begins…
Review:
1. Story and Character (10/10)
The story is very solid, the tempo from each episodes is rather fast but it is enough to explain everything that we need to know without any confusion. The development of the characters is great. Important characters get enough explanation for their background and objectives. Many intrigues and twisted story keeping us difficult to guess the continuation. The story can also play the emotions of the audiences, such as cool action, fresh comedy, tragic scene, and a little of romance.
2. Sound, Music, and Voice (9/10)
The Music are amazing and suit the scenes, like the sound of violin when there are sad scenes and full of passion music when there are action scenes. The opening and ending songs are easy-listening and worth for Japanese music-lover to collect the full version. The dubbers do great job because many of them are the same dubbers from the first anime. They make us who watched the first anime do not need to adapt for the new dubbers’ voice.
3. Graphic (8/10)
The animation is much better than the first anime adaptation because the time difference of the release is 5 years, so the technology to make effect is better. but it is not very special comparing with other animes in the same year, but The action animation effect is good. Character design is brilliant so you can know the differences of the origin of the people, such as Chinese, Caucasian, and Negro.
Conclusion
FMAB is one of the best anime that everybody are going to love it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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