Watching FMA again...that ending really kills any of the fun the series could've potentially had.
The whole "The power of friendship trumps all" is so dull and repetitive that I almost hate seeing any new anime, due to that ideology being instilled in the entire culture.
Naruto - The power of friendship
Bleach - I can do it with the help of my friends
One Piece - Friends is all we have!
It gets tired, and at this point, pretentious. This very reason is what makes Cowboy Bebop so great. They take the whole "we need friends" motif, and turn it on its head, to a more simplified version; "Yeah we're friends, but we just met, and I have shyt to do". Literally the ideology of everyone in the series. Spike had a good friend in Jet, a future relationship with Faye, and a place to call home. To which he gives a major fukk you to, in order to complete a very selfish goal. I'm fine with that, because its real, its human, and its oddly reasonable. But imagine "its due to our friendship" being the end point to anything you watched or read? shyt would get tired real quick.
What bothers me most about this ideology in FMA, is that they only really wait until the very end to talk about how the souls in the Philosopher's Stone had any autonomy. That part felt very forced, and how there's not really equivalent exchange, as much as there is, ironic exchange. It all just made the ending that much more lukewarm. So Truth, gave Ed alchemy to that he could ultimately sacrifice it to bring his brother back...he doesn't become an alchemic god, he doesn't even purge the world of a piece of shyt godly being...he's just normal again, with his brother now fully restored. shyt went no where and its heralded as a top 10 anime, no thanks, not in my book.
its beautifull hands down the best anime the season
when you read the light novel and the anime is not raped its just
