No amount of directing ability is going to make up for the fact that most of the cast gets reduced to stupid comic acts like all of Mustang men (including Riza) being reduced to comic relief where Riza is the lone competent person while the rest are morons who exist to make Riza give some deadpan response to their stupidity.įullmetal Alchemist has this massive cast of characters and the 2003 series really seems to be only interested in Ed, Mustang, and inexplicably Shou Tucker. The 2003 series basically treats Alchemy like magic when the manga goes to great lengths to make alchemy about the ethics of science. series seemed to get the themes of Fullmetal Alchemist. No directing ability is going to cover the fact that none of the staff working on the 2003. I am not going to claim an anime series is amazing because half of its a fairly good series that does have good direction when the final 13 episodes fall apart completely. Yeah the writing is a complete catastrophe but just look at this shot of Ed and Al raising their hands into the air. Yeah there are some part of the 2003 series that is absolutely beautiful but when you write stupid stuff like Hohenheim being history's greatest monster, changing how the Door of Truth works, the nonsensical plot twist where the series has to labor to explain what its supposed to mean, the broken themes and just overall being this miserable slog of an ending where people have to pretend that the movie finale doesnt matter and the final episode stands on its own (they dont). I love the manga, I think its beautiful but dear god the final battle in the anime is so stupid. I have yet to watch the entire anime series of Soul Eater because I saw how utterly stupid the ending is and I lost all the will to watch the rest of the show.
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