Full Metal Alchemist Review (2003)

Full Metal Alchemist Review (2003)


With their mother passed away and their father long since abandoned them, Edward and Alphonse Elric try to perform a human transmutation using alchemy to bring their mother back. This in turn fails, because they did not realise how big of a sacrifice they would have to make. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost, that is the law of equivalent exchange. As a result, Edward loses an arm and a leg, and Alphonse his entire body, with nothing but this soul tied to a suit of armour. They now begin a long and difficult journey to uncover and obtain the legendary Philosophers Stone, a very powerful alchemic stone which is said to hold immense power that it allows the user to perform alchemy but ignoring the principal of equivalent exchange. The quest these two brothers take will question their morals and ultimately decide the value of human life.
This is a series that has many types of genres, and can be enjoyed by people of all ages, it has plenty of action, drama, comedy, adventure, mystery and so forth, they all manage to co exist together and therefore amplify each other in the process. Also with a big cast of well known voice actors and actresses it only adds more to the enjoyment of the series, from people such as Vic Mignogna, Laura Bailey and Travis Willingham who have all worked on many other titles in the past, and are of course still working on more as we speak.
This series for me in my collection is defiantly in the top ten, with a successful series release, including the movie, it has gained many fans from around the globe, and with official conformation that a second series is in production, things can only get better for the anime world.