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Post: 82022637_1 created on Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:20:51 +0000
Posted: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:20:51 +0000

I mean, whyyyy is it a Hot Topic? I haven't heard of anything special going on with it.. unless I'm out of the FMA loop. Kiiiinda random. xD;

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Post: 82022637_2 created on Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:03:22 +0000
Posted: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:03:22 +0000

crying Fullmetal Alchemist is a special manga/anime series. It's one of the few anime series that is so popular that it's been made twice. The first anime was made in 2003 or so, when the manga had only progressed to a certain point, so Hiromu Arakawa (the creator, artist, writer and so on of the manga) agreed to allow the director of that anime to take it in a different direction from where her story would head. Then in 2009, when Ms Arakawa had nearly completed the manga, the same studio started the same series from the beginning, but this time kept much closer to the original material.

If you're wondering why it's a hot topic, that's because many, many people love it. It has humour, beautiful art, incredible character development, amazing fight scenes, and both storylines of both anime series really pull in the viewer. That said, not everybody likes it. Not everybody likes Harry Potter, or Spider-Man, or whatever you put a pin on in the newspaper.

If you've watched it and don't like it, that's okay. Like I said, not everybody likes the same stuff. But if you haven't even tried it, maybe you could give it a go. It's one of the few animes that actually deals with stuff like why revenge isn't a good idea and how people deal with grief and loss (as in people dying loss). Your call.

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Post: 82022637_3 created on Thu, 30 Aug 2012 03:18:30 +0000
Posted: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 03:18:30 +0000

They made it into a hot topic because Gaia teamed up with Funimation to release an FMA themed RIG a little while back and they figured that they should have a forum to go with it.

I just wish they would have done this while the series (the manga/Brotherhood at least) was still going, there would have been a lot more to discuss then.