Fullmetal Alchemist: Season 1, Part 2 Box Set
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Movie Reviews of Fullmetal Alchemist: Season 1, Part 2 Box Set
Movie Review: Continues to move in the right direction
Summary: 5 Stars
Full Metal Alchemist maintains a very good pace and continues to tell a damn good story. Unlike many series that would eventually fumble around this point. FMA focuses on the things that work.
The characters are still a plus. Everyone who is introduced has a purpose and there has been no wasted potential so far. Some of the characters prove to have some depth. The storytelling gets deeper. The episodes only have one way to go and that's up. The episodes take a darker turn concerning the action, drama, and darker themes. The stories concerning the philospher's stone happens to be the most gripping for me. The animation constantly gets better along with the soundtrack.
If you saw the first season half and enjoyed it. It would be fine to set your expectations a bit higher before seeing this one. FMA up to this point delivered on every end for me. This season set contains episodes 17-28 on three disks.
Movie Review: Continuing the series, this is a GREAT set to buy- pros and cons here
Summary: 5 Stars
Even though the series has been over for a while now and the movie has come out, I am still a very big FMA fan (as well as a Bleach fan, though it's not as good as fma).
Now, this box set covers episodes 17-28 (3 disks). Ed reunites with the Rockbells (since Scar destroyed his automail), discoveres how the Philosopher's stone is made, battles in Laboratory 5, sees his "fave teacher" Izumi, gets shipped off to Yock Island, and discovers a mysterious boy with unhuman powers.
First of all, this set is not a good starting block when you are trying to bring someone into the series. It continues from where it left off in the "first season part one" set, and the story gets even more complicated. However, it does have more action, philosophy, and adventure than the first set, showing Ed's pure heart, Al's perhaps too trusting personality, and Winry's sisterly care for them.
I love this set the best out of the first three sets, though it cannot be compared to the last set, which, if you have watched all previous sets, is tear jerking and beautiful. Hiromu Arakawa really thought this series out, as well as the directors, and it shows.
My only complaints are with the packaging and the fact that after episode 28, it strays off from the manga. There are only three disks in this set, as opposed to four the first and third sets. I really enjoy seeing sets with individual DVD cases, but this one folds out like a brochure, and has some DVDs lie halfway on top of each other to save space. A box is home to this "brochure", and also contains another box with the guidebooks in it.
I do not like the fact that the episodes after 28 stray off from the manga, but it was inevitable, since the decision to make fma a tv series was made early. The directors came up with a great plot though, going off from volume 6 of the manga, touching on #7 with Greed, and then going off course by episode 40 or so with Dante and Wrath. It has a great ending though, and in some parts, I think they did better than Arakawa actually. It is nice to only follow one plot with characters though.
All in all, you should buy this set, and complete the series by purchasing the other sets. Heartfelt and well thought out, hilarious and outstanding, this is truly a work of art.
Movie Review: Start Here
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the set that I would recommend buying to introduce new viewers to Fullmetal Alchemist.
Throughout the series, there are effective uses of flashbacks. For those unfamiliar with the show, the flashbacks can sometimes be disorienting. I've found that this Part 2 set (while it spoils a couple of "endings" from the Part 1 set) controls how much background information is given out much more effectively.
Watch Season 1, Part 2 first...then head back to watch Season 1, Part 1. It'll make more sense (oddly enough) and you'll feel the show's emotional grip much more intensely!
Movie Review: superb
Summary: 5 Stars
Yet another awesome addition to the FMA collection. The Lab 5 episodes are definitely worth watching, as are the ones introducing new characters!Movie Review: The Best Of Fullmetal Alchemist Stories Ever
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD Box Set is one of the most beautiful Fullmetal Alchemist stories, that I've saw a while back, its GREAT stories and the best Anime and action, that once of my favorites and I love it :)and enjoy the stories...