User:Tommy-Vercetti

There was always something about FMA that drove me to it; but it wasn't the first anime series. I thought the first 10 minutes or so was great (where it had the same style as the manga I hadn't seen yet), but then it got so insanely cliche, melodramatic, and so poorly written, I found myself bored by episode 5, I think.

In fact, I would go so far to say the original series is one of the top 5 "worst animes ever", especially due to the fact at how INSANELY overrated it is. It's so imbedded into fans' heads (they think Sloth should be Trisha for example) it's insane. I was never impressed with that series, but once I got into the manga, I couldn't believe it. I was like "Not only does this make sense! But it knows what it wants to be too!" I couldn't get enough. So, naturally when I found out that finally a new anime would be made following the manga, I was quite eager to check it out. Overall, I thought the beginning could have been a lot better (they breezed through it way too quickly), and even when they got to new footage, suddenly, it was still abridged. At first, I was afraid that this was going to be the new trend. Sure, we'd get the manga storyline, but without any of the story meat that made the manga so enjoyable. But finally, they got it down to a decent pace and I think overall it turned out to be a damn good series. One of my favorites, but I still prefer the manga due to that it basically has everything.

Now... I can't say the same thing about the dub however. Such a pity that most people who will come here will have ONLY seen the dub (commonplace in anime), but they're really missing out. The first 25+ episodes had some of the worst script writing and acting since the Yu Yu Hakusho dub (my absolute favorite anime that was completely butchered by the dub). If you want to see FMA how it was meant to be, check it out in Japanese. Granted, even more than halfway through, there's still tons of script changes, plot holes (thanks to the dub itself. Check the episode pages here if you don't believe me), and the original version is so much better.

As for what I do here, I like to fix tiny little things on this site for consistency's sake and upload better or new pictures. Wikipedias are so bland without any images in my opinion. Of course, overloaded is too much too, but the right balance is just perfect.

I'm not really too taken with the oasis skin though; it just really squeezed the layout to a very bad situation. I hope that maybe one day wikia will realize that many other editors share my sentiments regarding it as well.