User:Fullmetal Heartless

I was a little skeptical at first as to how an anime featuring a grouchy-looking teen kid and soul-armor could be much good, and the first 10 minutes of the first series episode didn't help, so I went to the manga series. A couple months later, I was going back to the anime and taking my younger sister along with it. It was confusing to suddenly have the storyline change and not until midway through the series, discovering that the second series was the one that followed the manga, but I ended up liking the first series more than I thought anyway afterwards.

I was nervous about how good the second series would be after watching the entire first series and its movie, but the theme song alone got rid of all doubts of that. I noticed a few scenes I liked missing from the Brotherhood series, but other than that, I couldn't wait to watch it all over again, and again.

I started officially watching the first anime in September of 2012. Today I mostly watch the episodes of both series in Japanese, learning new vocabulary and grammar uses to go along with the Japanese lessons I've been taking since May of 2012. I've seen the first series (anime, movie, and OVA) and the second series (anime, movie, OVA) in both Japanese and English, have played the first 2 PS2 games in English and the third one in Japanese, both Prince of the Dawn and Daughter of the Dusk Wii Games, and am waiting to play the PS2 game Dream Carnival. My Japanese knowledge is only barely enough to understand a vague outline of the game plots, but I'm learning at a quick pace and hope to be able to translate the game someday soon.