We recently Netflixed our first anime show, and now we can say that we’ve watched the first episode of Full Metal Alchemist. It was an amazing coincidence that my sister called while we were watching the show. I knew she would be so happy that we were finally watching it. Our conversation went like this:
Darcy: Hey, Kristi! We’re watching Full Metal Alchemy.
Kristi: It’s not Full Metal Alchemy. It’s Full Metal AlcheMIST.
Darcy: (thinking “That was snooty!”) Oh, ok. We’re watching it. How are you?
Kristi: Fine. I’m letting you go. It’s more important that you watch Full Metal Alchemist. Bye.
Darcy: Ok, whatever. Bye.
This show definitely had its quirks. You know how George Lucas always throws something into his movies that annoys you a lot but is too minor to really matter in the end? The most obvious example is, of course, Jar Jar Binks. Well, they threw a little something like that in Full Metal Alchemist as well. The Full Metal Alchemist character had some mannerisms that really annoyed me. Whenever he would get mad, he would go into what I would call “Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes) animation mode”. The beautiful animation that they worked so hard on was interrupted by this cartoonish, jittery, childish temper-tantrum. Oh well. You can’t have everything in the fantasy world. That was just that one minor thing I was talking about. The story is really unique (to me, anyway), and I was pleased with it.
Here’s the verdict. We liked it, and we’re going to get disk 2. It’s like an entire new fantasy genre!
Tags: anime, full metal alchemist, Kristi, netflix
I’d have to agree, the “freak out” sections are rather distracting and I wish they didn’t do it that way. I guess some people might like that but I think it just distracts from the story.