Saturday, September 22, 2007
Edoooowadoooo~
OMG thank you all for being so encouraging, LAWL! The post below was written on one of my DOWN days, so yeah. :P I feel much better now, and the COLD is G-O-N-E!!! WOOHOO~~~! So my ego is back to the normal high. HOHOHO.
I've also got a grave statement to make:
Edward Elric has officially topped my fave anime character list. PERMANENTLY. OMG.
_SPOILER ALERT_
Haha, yeah, I might be a bit slow, but I finally got around to watching FMA!!! XD So basically this whole post is going to be a rant about it. Haha. Non-anime interested people can leave now, shoo shoo. Cuz only major anime freaks will understand what I am vigorously muttering about here.
Kidding lah.
Anyway, after watching the series, I got damn sad lah~. Maes Hughes DIED (the frickin' idiot, discover a Homunculus also dun wanna get help first, straightaway rush down to the stupid trap. I mean, he's head of the intelligence department CAN??? INTELLIGENCE~!. *grumble grumble*) and then two of my fave characters in the show fight in the finale and one kills the other. -_=
But after watching the movie, I feel that the whole anime gives me a very bittersweet feeling. In fact, so bittersweet that, up til now (I finished the series + movie 3 days ago can, still haven't gotten over it...) I can't help but cry when I hear the 2nd Ending Song (because I feel that this song sums up the whole anime in the BEST and MOST AWESOME way) and the background song "Brothers". In fact, I cry the MOST when "Brothers" is played. So now I restrict myelf to only hearing it once a day, if not I will always be in a perpetual shadow of sadness. Seriously. I get THIS ATTACHED to an anime series. That's why I get apprehensive around epic anime like this. But at least FMA wasn't as heart-rending as Chrno Crusade. Haha, for Chrno Crusade I swear I cried for almost 30min. T^T
I read online that so many people hated the Conqueror of Shamballa movie. I, for one, LOVED it.
(OIOIOI for those who haven't watched the movie, BIG SPOILER HERE, AND THIS IS THE LAST WARNING I'M GIVING FOR SPOILERS since most of my friends don't really care about them anyway. I'm just wasting valuable typing space.)
Why should people be sad that Ed has to stay in our world? And Al too? I mean, for Ed right, even if he goes back to his world, he won't be able to become a State Alchemist anymore, and plus he burned down his house. It isn't realistic to say that he and Al will stay at Winry's because, let's face it, FMA is not an anime for happy endings, just like all good anime. Anime with happy endings don't get as much hype and/or praise. Plus, Ed and Al staying with Winry just irks me because I don't like any of the girls in the anime. Oh, with the exception of Lust, cuz I think she's really cool.
And my strongest argument? I just don't see Ed retiring happily in the countryside with Winry and the rest of them. It's just wrong. Even if he stays back in his world, he'll surely be off travelling and helping other people through his alchemy, maybe even fighting in the border disputes. Even that isn't realistic. If he helps in the war, he's either for or against the military, and both don't look like very probable possibilities.
For Al? Haha, this is an easy argument. If he stays back in his world, he would have lost all his memories of the 4 years of travel he did with his brother. And that would be the BIGGEST loss ever for him, since I believe he learned alot during his travels. So if Al is able to regain his lost memories by staying in our world with Ed, isn't that all so much the better? After all, their promise was to find each other eventually, and they HAVE, even if it isn't in their world but in ours.
So there. WHEW. I fully support the fact that Ed turned 100 in the year 2005 of our world (haha, omg, the OVAs were so cute, too bad they only made 4, and out of the 4, I couldn't find the 4th: "reflections"). That must make Al 99 in 2005. LAWL. But I'm digressing.
I guess the one thing I feel bitter about is the fact that Ed and Al can no longer practise Alchemy. It was so gut-wrenching for me to watch (in the movie) how much Ed missed Alchemy. You know, the scene where he completes drawing the alchemic circle, and then berates himself for doing so cuz alchemy can't be practised in our world. AAGGGHHHH.
Therefore, in conclusion... (LOL) The anime is bittersweet for me because bitter = cannot practise alchemy and sweet = Ed is reunited with Al in the end, after all their efforts.
I can safely say that I'll shelve this anime along with all my other all-time favourites like Chrno Crusade, Groove Adventure RAVE, BLOOD+ and +++ (because I forgot the rest). Hehe. Here ends my tirade about FMA.
_SPOILER END_
It's funny how people bond to the first thing they watch. I lent my cousin a copy of my Japanese Hana Yori Dango, and she said she didn't like it cuz it felt weird, since she watched the Taiwanese one first. I, on the other hand, watched the Jap one first, and thought that the Taiwanese one was the inferior one. O_O LAWL. Just a random point I'd like to make.
But apparently all the people who watched Full House loved it no matter what. HAHA.
Lastly, I'd just like to remark upon the fact that I purchased a FMA mug from eBay. :)
To remind myself every day that, even if the Pinciple of Equivalent Trade is too simple a formula to be applied in such an imperfect world, one will always be able to gain something of value if one puts in enough effort, whatever the goal is. :P
Ganbatte, Ed and Al! ^^ (I wonder where their graves are in this world...or have they even died yet...? HOHOHO...)
...is what I said. Savvy?
9:59 am
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June 2006