Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Fullmetal Alchemist
Action
Adventure
Drama
Fantasy
Details & Synopsis
The 2003 series is the more interesting character study. Brotherhood is the better show. That tension is worth sitting with before you hit play, because Brotherhood earns its reputation the hard way, not by being darker or more surprising than its predecessor, but by being relentlessly, almost brutally well-constructed. The Elric brothers' original sin is established fast and the series never lets them, or you, forget it, even as the scale inflates from a single chimera in a country house to a conspiracy spanning an entire continent. What keeps it from collapsing under that weight is the same thing that saves all great shonen when it's working correctly: every political revelation lands hardest because of what it costs someone specific. No filler. Bone-dry pacing. Hiromu Arakawa's blueprint executed with a confidence that makes most other long-form adaptations look like they were guessing.
Alt Title
Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Fullmetal Alchemist
Studio
Bones
Network
MBS / TBS
Aired
2009 - 2010
Episodes
64
Genre
Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Status
Completed
Guides and reference pages for this series. More coming.
