Tag: Fullmetal Alchemist
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Top 10 Reasons the Manga Is Better
The 2003 anime Fullmetal Alchemist is a pretty good show, and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is a great show, but neither of them could beat the manga they’re both based on. Welcome to my list of reasons the manga is better. For this list I will focus mainly on why the manga is better than the…
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Why “Fullmetal Alchemist 2003” is NOT Better Than the Manga
As far as I am aware, there have been three adaptations of the manga Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa: an anime in 2003 that had little in common with the manga, another anime in 2009 that adapted it quite faithfully, and a live-action movie in 2017 that we shall not speak of. In spite of…
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Why the Live-Action “Fullmetal Alchemist” Movie Is an Abomination
In my last article I reviewed a movie based on a manga I love. The movie was an abomination. I didn’t go into the details there because it would have taken too long, but here I will examine the first few minutes of the film. Why only the first few minutes? Because the rest of…
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“Fullmetal Alchemist” (2017) Movie Review
Fullmetal Alchemist (2017) is a live-action movie based on a manga/anime epic. I very much doubt I need elaborate, as the simple fact of its existence almost guarantees it to be awful. That said, I will elaborate. The manga Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa is a masterpiece, as is the 2009 anime based on it…
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Stop Calling Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 “The Original”
I explained in my last article some of the reasons I consider the original Fullmetal Alchemist manga by Hiromu Arakawa to be superior to the 2003 anime, whose plot was utterly removed from that of the source material. The 2003 anime does have its fans, though, and that’s completely fine. However, a strange thing happened…
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“Fullmetal Alchemist 2003” Anime Review
I guess it’s time for me to talk about Fullmetal Alchemist 2003. This should be interesting. In my last article I showered a fantastic manga with praise. That manga is Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa, and in 2009 it was adapted into a sixty-four-episode anime called Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, considered by many to be the…
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“Fullmetal Alchemist” Review
For the longest time I was never able to really get into graphic novels of any kind. Even as everyone I knew raved about the latest Batman issue, I just couldn’t force myself to be interested in looking at panel after panel, bubble after bubble. Obviously I’ve always loved reading traditional novels with sentences and…