FullMetal Alchemist Review: Adult Swim

First Impression? Aside from the bad voice work for Ed and a few of the random characters (R. Bruce Elliot, who also voices Richard on the Americanized version of Detective Conan and is the voice for Iron Chef Sakai, needs to not be hired anymore), I think it was a good overall interpretation. They didn't leave too much of the blood and dismemberment scenes out (and frankly I don't know how they're going to, since loss of body parts is an integral part to the story) and the actor they got to do the voice of Alphonse is about as good as they could've gotten. I'm betting they'll cut back on some of the sexual and religious imagery more than anything, but there wasn't really a plethora of that in FMA to begin with.

The downside? Knowing what happens means that not only do I have to relive it with bad american accents in a lot of cases, but I also have to wait until the end of next year to find out just how the whole damn thing turns out. The story is continued in the upcoming FullMetal Alchemist Movie, due out in theaters in Japan in late summer, 2005. The waiting...the waiting.