RL have pretty much taken over everything for the past few weeks, but I feel a break coming soon, either in my attention span or just the fact that I can finally get my hands on more anime. So, while half of my friendlist watch ep 23 of FMA I sit back and try to avoid the spoilers like the wild coyote trying to avoid falling anvils. So far I'm winning.
But having said that, I'm not in much of a hurry to watch FMA (ep19 onward). It is not because I don't like the series (I do, I do), but rather it is because I don't want my guesses coming true, like the one I made of Hughes as soon as I saw him on the monitor.
Now, it's more of a waiting game to see when the anime reach the same conclusions as I, though there's always hope that it won't be as grim as foresee it to be. But if FMA does back out of right ending than I might as well hightail out of the fandom right now. Endings can break or make a series, and I feel it is more so in FMA's case.
So, lets cross our fingers.
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Thass right, be optimistic! We have Suikoden 4 to warm our pants too!
I don't know why your mother would've been disturbed, if my kid had drawn a picture of the roasting bird I would've been terribly happy.
SUIKO 4!!!!! I NEED this game, I NEED! Being rewatching the preview over and over, and over again. Gods, this game is going to be so COOL! It's either going to make my year or have me screaming with rage. Personally, I'm hoping for the former. I -need- this game.
*huggles* ev'ry thing will be okaaay!
You know, as long as they avoid making sparkly rainbow magic or Ed a golfer, I think it will be okay.
WHAT?!
When did the golfer thing happen?!!.... on second thought, forget about it, I dont' want to know. I knew there was a reason for avoiding PoT since ep 95 or so. I'm just going to stick with the manga.
And yes, if FMA does sparkly rainbow magic, or the golfer thing, we'll all be fine.
In the anime they give him sparkly rainbow effects when he does his special move, and they made him a *golfer* (I weep, as a Rikkai fangurl ;_; (see icon)), and had Niou introducing him to tennis. But this sort of makes Niou boring.
How COULD they?! Why do they insist on butchering the character? Why?! Can't they leave Rikkai as the completely dysfunctional (all that's samurai-ish with their own punish code) alone!
They managed to make Niou boring.
And since you're a Rikkai fangirl. Yukimura is Teh Seme. No matter how uke-ish he look at present time.
I hate them!
Yeah, I'm totally convinced that Yukimura has steel in him, otherwise they wouldn't have made him buchou.
damn, some artists would have waaaay too much fun with that. I mean, there's already people making the alchemists in to a rock band ^0^
It's sort of fun, though, not knowing how it's going to end up. But please someone warn me if they foresee a Cowboy Bebop ending.
As bad as my premonitions for the future are, I doubt the anime producers will push for a Bebop-ish ending (or a 'Now and There Here and There' or 'Berserk') ending. The series, while sometime dark and traumatic, is still a story of a quest, of hope and redemption.
You can put the characters through crap, but there must be an overall happish ending. Since Ed still has so much to learn, and so much to udnerstand, he can't die. Yet. Same for Al.
Though, if push come to shove, you can kill one of the Elric brothers, but not both.
Also, on an intrinstic level, FMA isn't about death nor 'cruel world' (though it has its moments) it's about transmutation. It is the change of matter into something else, the release of energy, and if they are going to go the way of Everything leads to Death I might as well just go and watch paint dry.
I do seriously doubt that it will be a CB ending, however. I'm actually not sure what it's leading up to now, though, or how they will go about restoring Al, now that the Sins have told him that human transumation requires humans.
Anyways, moving on. True, the main hero didn't die, but then we weren't really expecting him to die. Personally, I was hoping the second in command would die, as for the rest... well, the ones who deserved die (and the ones who didn't) pretty much all died. (man, that last sentence had problems).
No CB ending. Which is all good, and make us all happy ^__^ (love CB, but the ending, the ending, meh). I'd love it if Scar do the heroic thing and sacrifice himself. I mean it does make a circular logic (and circular endingsd, if done right is always a treat). Scar can't have his brother back anymore, and it isn't like he has much to live for, and come on, Ed deserve to get Al back.
I hold by the belief that Al will eventually get his body back, but I doubt Ed will get his arm and leg back. In fact I hope he doesn't get them back. For pure personal reasons ^_^