So I hear there's a new Fullmetal Alchemist anime coming out. It'll be a separate continuity from the manga and the older anime series. It'll follow the manga series more closely. I ask, why are they doing this? Shouldn't they wait until after the manga is finished before trying again? Or is the manga nearing completion in Japan? Oh whatever. This idea has intrigued me. Although I prefer the FMA manga over the older (yeah, it's old alright. Came out in 2003, just earlier this decade! Damn, that's old! That's when anime series were at the top of their game!) anime series, there is one major advantage the anime holds; the fight scenes look better. And now that the newer anime is gonna be truer to the manga, I would like to see how some of the action sequences look on film.
And it wouldn't surprise me if this new FMA anime eventually got released in America, complete with English dubbing. I'm assuming Funimation will dub it again. I wonder who will play the characters that haven't appeared in an anime yet. I'm sure the dub will be top rate once more; post-DBGT dubs by Funi are almost always superb, from my observations. (LATE EDIT: yeah, if you don't count Darker Than Black and Rebuild of Evangelion, but my future self digresses.)
But, to pass the time, I went back and re-read some of my FMA manga novels. I gotta be honest about something; FMA is marketed as a shonen serial. The earlier volumes certainly feel like one, despite being a lot smarter than your average shonen. But, the more recent volumes, it feels more like seinen. It seems like, from volume 8 and onwards, FMA feels mature enough to be a seinen series, not shonen. Well, juvenile (yet effective) sense of humor aside, FMA just doesn't feel like a shonen series as of the present. Of course, this isn't to knock on shonen serials in any way, but the overall mood and complexity would have me thinking that FMA is more for young adults rather then teens. And the later episodes of the older anime, again, feels way more serious than a typical shonen series.
Well, in any case, May 2009 is still a ways off, and it helps to review the older chapters. Well, that, and re-reading certain scenes is a lot of fun. Then again, FMA is the motherfucking shiznit. And I would like to watch the newer FMA, because anything with my homeboys staight outta Resembool has to be kickass, am I right?
