Review In short, Let me keep it real. This anime isn't worth your time there you go.
I have Dropped this series for many reasons alone that I did to where I was watching at and its pretty simple why that is and why It makes sense for me to review full metal alhemist desu ga. Firstly I base this series on the analogy of 2 words that continues to irk at my own viewing experience of watching this for a long while now.
Those 2 words would be Annoying Tendency!
Not only just that, This anime has dragged onto the point where I know longer care where this story is heading because unfortunately its writer, likes to Time waste way too often.
And now the fans have overate this to the point where literally the story has not changed or mature with its premise as its still follows the same freaking formula of repetitive shonen nonsense of its character troupes with most episodes from 1 to god knows what episode its currently on right now and with the exception of thinking that this is a pirate adventure which is totally dumb as hell and has lost credibility in claiming that this is about pirates.
Just like the Naruto series lost credibility thinking its own series projects ninjas in its own show and just as similar as that is to full metal alhemist desu ga its those flaws that just keeps continuing on and on.
its like the equivalent of that bad TV series Lost but on crack with many bad implants to its female characters which I mean Lots.
Reading its Guinness book of its trash manga doesn't even help or even give me value for reading through it as it has loads of the same reasons of problems as I've mentioned above.
If that wasn't enough of an issue. Its story of its characters and its events always end up being a very similar Forced Melodramatic story writing that you have seen and heard loads of times which in turn only forces you to endure this along with bad side stories that contribute into an even slower pace for this show in its build up with each Arc of episodes later by then it becomes unacceptable!
From each arc to arc for me did not guarantee any love or charm what so ever to lots of its characters like the time you are first introduce to them in the series upon viewing.
Instead it only just copies and paste stuff mostly of the same scenarios that you would see far too often in this series for most of these characters along with their progression except for some few that show to get more abilities than others really makes it fair in its togetherness doesn't it?
Some bonding that is if there are only certain characters that can do certain things most others couldn't do even when uniting the strawhats together it only makes it for a more cheesy affair than ever most of the time when you would obviously expect it, Especially when it comes off as cliche as it does.
Which also regards to parts where full metal alhemist desu ga wants to go dark and its so desperate to up the ante but only to result into a similar conclusion like before.
I mean come on its way past most of the amount of standard shonen episodes! which reminds me of Detective Conan, However in Conan's case the Difference is between these 2 series is in its Fandoms. full metal alhemist desu ga fans try to Overhype the crap out of this which is really unnecessary even when lots of people know clearly that it is the case.
We already got the basic gist of things of this series from the beginning, Even through its world setting up and till now is still not even well structured since it throws random places for us to be distracted so that fillers can help maintain its bad pace let alone does it even make that much sense to begin with especially when trying to use foreshadowing to justify the ridiculous amount of episodes that is in this series as it is to make us feel like we have feel invested in the unknown mysteries of the show which actually does the opposite effect.
I believe the full metal alhemist desu ga fandom have gotten mixed up with what world building actually is with the amount of episodes there have been especially focusing on stuff that this show thinks I should see but I don't and no I don't need to have to skip arcs just to enjoy something, Why should I? that is just retarded. Is that why its Manga counterpart is in the Guinness book of records because of its pacing and complacency? Makes sense for whatever parts of this series gains popularity in much of its story for being pointlessly repetitive i suppose.
1. First off regarding what I've mentioned so far,
If you have an immersive world and there is already enough content in the story/journey in your world building never mind how vast or mysterious it is, Don't pointlessly drag it out instead USE IT! and stop milking it with stupid character expressions of coincidences full of plot devices and plot armour, I do not care that it is a dumb shonen. At least FMA knew this a lot better.
2. Pointless prologues to your episodes.
3. Bad morals in many different situations of the story with its writing.
4. Stupid journey objectives that hardly revolves around the plot of the treasure of full metal alhemist desu ga until twelve of episodes later on to the point which is unacceptable along with milking its main characters most of the time of this franchise that gets to the point where it feels like its turning into filler which by the way there are a lot of them no matter what fans try to say against this.
5. Stop foreshadowing something in the story that was mentioned its not good story telling neither is it clever in any way since it never justifies its consitency for constantly dragging on in the way it does.
6. Over hyping stronger characters that don't really get involve in the story that much anyway.
7. Most of the times bad animation no doubt
8. its voice acting well its just mostly tedious and over the place nothing great or over the top despite how he writes the story (Bad writing Btw) that even after listening to lot of these characters it just makes me want to listen to a dying mule instead. Nothing weird or wonderful about that my friends.
With all that being said, Its only qualities that I like about full metal alhemist desu ga are the art designs of certain characters and the fact there is a series that stars pirates, since there are very few anime series that have pirates (not that they are suppose to be role models in any way)
but those are the only positives with this series in general for me and honestly nothing more.
Overall its an over exaggerated series of repetitive outcomes that I have not enjoyed in its long run about dumb wannabe pirates quote PIRATES! It's only real positive here is HEY ITS ABOUT SWAG WOW THATS RARE TO FIND IN ANIME ISN'T IT???..WRONG BECAUSE CONSIDERING WHAT good ARE LIKE IN REAL LIFE WHO CARES ANYWAYS. Thats like me wanting to write a story about slavery on different Ethnicity/Races but NOOOO.. that won't be right so why not glorify slave traders into being these nice dumb heroes because you know? It's fiction and it sounds interesting right? RIGHT??... AGAIN WRONG.
Now going back to my point of Watching this crappy cartoon this only makes me or most viewers seem to have to glorify such a pathetic outlook of a premise with its stretched out world building that is not even incisive enough to its history of the story, neither is it memorable for me enough to even care about it to watch it any longer as it doesn't reward me growth in their characters, a decisive objective or consistency of its so called journey within its story in general.
Last but not least The Comedy really suck! seriously do yourselves a Big favour there are better Shonens and many other Animes out there that is worth watching that has better characters, better story, better pace and better growth than this long turd of a show that seems to overate a lot in Japan above others which unfortunately is the world we live in tHey. Consider this dropped and good riddance.
Excuse me for being honestly critical as I am, I do not sugar coat a series if thats what you really wanted about this show in general, well too bad. You can go to other reviewers that are giving a ten towards this Overrated piece of fiction that's overstayed it's welcome.
To all of you who have read my review thanks for taking the time and take care.
FMA still superior than these one
