Add your rating. Parents say 16 Kids say Adult Written by Lgh October 20, C'mon, guys! This is just sad! Are we living in a world where just a little swearing and violence equals innapropriate?
This is a fantastic and touching story with dashes of romance, action, and comedy. I'd actually reccomend watching it together as a family as long as your children are mature enough to understand some heavy topics. Alcohol is mentioned and seen being consumed multiple times and one of the main characters, he's one of Roy's men is a big smoker.
He's almost never seen without a cigarette. But that isn't bad, I just wanted to mention it for parents who frown upon those things. It's overall a great series, you should give it a shot! This title contains: Positive Messages.
Positive role models. This review Helped me decide. Had useful details 3. Read my mind 4. Report this review. Written by Anonymous April 14, Amazing story, but has an unfortunately fatal flaw. This show presents a great story. The message presented by the main characters is almost always positive, and they do a great job of being role models in what is very much so an often dark story.
The show even has some strong themes about the value and dignity of human life. I loved this show, and would have thoroughly recommended it to all families, but the show has, what is in my mind, a fatal flaw. In part 4, episode 5, as well as part 4, episode 7, there are shots of the main female supporting character either nearly or completely bare chested, once in the bath tub and once taking off her clothing at the end of the day.
I would advise any parents or families watching this show to avoid both of these moments, if possible, as they are not story relevant. Still, I cannot support a series that would be so careless about it's use of women for the sake of mere viewer titillation.
What at first seemed to me like a brilliant show with great insight and wonderful values has become a good, but deeply flawed show, like nearly every other piece of mature content being produced today. Had useful details 2. Read my mind.
Adult Written by Xtylish Sasuke October 19, Are you series. This is a fantastic anime for all ahead groups. After a very long time I watched an amazing anime like Death Note. Had useful details. Read my mind 2. Adult Written by moviemaker July 19, Amazing Alchemists An adaptation of the popular manga Japanese Graphic Novels series "Fullmetal Alchemist," this thought provoking, astonishingly well done and touching anime is jam-packed with positive messages and Despite the comedy side to this animated tale of redemption, the tough scenes hit hard.
I found myself mourning one of my favorite character's death. It's a story following two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric Vic Mignonga and Maxey Whitehead in an alternate where alchemy is being used at war. Their father has left them to join the state alchemists at war, and in his absence, they have studied the age-old art. When their mother dies due to a disease, they decide to revive her using alchemy. They train with a teacher for a year, and attempt to bring their mother back.
However, the alchemy fails and goes awry, dissolving Ed's leg and arm, and sucking Al's soul out. Ed uses his blood to put Alphonse's soul in a suit of armor.
The series is about Ed with his new metallic leg and arm and Al the suit of armor on their quest to bring their bodies back. Ed becomes a state alchemist, and they search for the fabled philosopher's stone, capable of alchemy without sacrifice.
In the process, they make a shocking and horrific discovery that will lead them to one more terrifying. For example, a man transmutes his own four year old daughter and dog together to pass an alchemy exam.
Unlike most shows, FMA heavily emphasizes the permanence of death and the horrors of war. A woman is graphically shown being incinerated numerous times. She tries to regenerate, but while she does, she gets burned again. As she regenerates, we see bones and muscles being grown back. It was hard to watch. A bad guy is blown up from the inside. He regenerates in a similar fashion to the burning woman. The enemies range from the menacing Homunculi, Humans made by alchemy to freaky chimeras, serial killers, and souls trapped in armor.
Some partial female nudity that is neither sexual nor graphic. Other than them, most of the main villains are tormented souls, and have some good to them.
Definitely the opposite of Team Rocket from Pokemon. The ultimate message by the climax to the series is that you should stick to your goals and never give up on them.
The other messages that are portrayed are that you should count on your friends for help, and you'll receive it, and that there's a side to every story and that everyone has good in them. The truly wicked will reveal their evil in the end. The ending will shock you, and to sum it up, it's a great story of brotherly love and friendships through tough times.
Written by Anonymous November 11, Awesome show, mature content Let me just say that this is the best anime of all time. This is fine for young adults and up. I would recommend watching some yourself before you introduce it to your kids. It explores some mature theme that may not be suitable even for some young adults. It all depends on if you think as a parent that your child is old enough to understand the concepts of the show because it gets quite deep and is most definitely the only show of its kind.
Had useful details 1. Adult Written by astherielle December 21, Adult Written by Euterpe July 20, In response to you all I would like to make a suggestion. If you're going to criticise something then do so with an open mind. Many of you have already decided that you don't consider FMA to be dark, but the arguments you put forward in support of your opinion do not actually hold water NOTE: I said many of you, not all of you - some people have put forward considered arguments to support their opinion.
In general the arguments against all seem to be based on colour pallete, etc, which I have highlighted above. Just because an anime does not follow the stereotypical format does not mean it is not dark.
Take Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei for example. The darkest character in that show is actually Kafuka Fuura. This is specifically because she can't look at the negative side of things, and someone who is always positive can make any event seem so normal you wouldn't consider it's true horror.
I'd say it's not dark.. I like FMA. I'd like to explain why I don't think it's dark. First it doesn't met overall accepted criteria for "darkness". Obviously FMA doesn't fall in this category. What makes FMA a non-dark anime? That folly, madness or taboos are part of it doesn't make it dark, it is the way such themes are treated that make an anime dark.
But FMA is a very optimistic anime up to the very end. Both brothers think that they can change the course of history reverse their past actions. At the end of the story, you don't feel they are doomed, it's more a "half succes" then anything else and at least i thought that the situation is still far from a hopeless situation. Throughout the anime, the main characters as well as most "good" persons believe that you can atone for your sins, repair your past errors and that the future will be a bright one if you fight for it.
Overall this is a very optimistic and bright message, this is what, for me at least, makes the anime non-dark. Characters doubt on this only for a short period and most of the time to get an even greater confidence of these facts out of it. This being said i do believe that a lot of other animes doesn't really belong to this list GitS for example even if they are truly great and amazing animes. Simply because the tone of the series wasn't dark.
Yes there was some subject matter that was dark but the overall feel of the show was much lighter. And as I write this, I am wondering if Elfen Lied could be considered a dark anime with Lucy's two personalities. Both canceling out the mood set by the other. In-fact, the question of whether or not a series is actually 'dark' could be posed toward most series'.
Perhaps we should just leave it alone as clearly we are arguing over another's opinion. Whoever said nothing is impossible, never tried slamming a revolving door Dima Offline Joined: Jul Posts: Skl8em Offline Joined: Sep Posts: Yandere Offline Joined: Aug Posts: Mindfulcorvus Offline Joined: Oct Posts: It's a little dark, but not dark enough for it to be considered a dark anime imo BBCode.
Demonblitz Offline Joined: Nov Posts: 8. Whims Offline Joined: Sep Posts: Mtani Offline Joined: Aug Posts: Quoted for truth. It does have some very dramatics elements, like the ones Tifa listed. BBCode Land of Shadow.
Ahenshihael Offline Joined: Jul Posts: Megadedhed Offline Joined: Jun Posts: Trie Offline Joined: Jul Posts: Yeah I agree, so its also a "no" from me.
Malyrush Offline Joined: Oct Posts: Indigo Offline Joined: Sep Posts: BBCode Signature removed. I voted Yes BBCode. Archaeon Offline Joined: Nov Posts: I'm quoting this for reference as the comparison he makes, although valid, misses the point entirely, just like many of you seem to have missed the point entirely.
You focus so much on silly things like colour pallete, comedy, light-heartedness, etc, that you forgot to actually pay attention to the most important thing - the story.
I've heard it mentioned many times that this is a typical shounen anime, but I have to disagree. Naruto and Bleach are typical shounen animes - FMA is not. You all seem to think blood has to be involved, or insanity, or evil, or a really muted colour pallette, or ominous music. Should I go on? For some reason these have become the norm for an anime to be called "dark", and everyone's fixated on using these to define a show like FMA. FMA is unique in the anime world because there are numerous themes that are dealt with in the show that most people don't really understand the first time they watch it unless you've been obsessed with something to the point it almost destroyed your life that is - people who are addicted to something suffer from this obsession , and it doesn't simply use these themes as plot devices.
The main theme ofthe show was "Obsession", but there were two underlying themes in the show that I want to talk about in particular though - "For the greater good" and "Obligation". These two themes have led to many of the darkest chapters in recorded human history, and they've been responsible for more death, pain, suffering, anger, hatred, etc, than almost anything else. Edward, Alphonse and Scar on the other hand, act out of obligation. Edward feels obliged to fix things for his brother as he blames himself for everything that's happened many of you seem to have missed the fact that Edward tends to brood a lot, tends to push himself too much, and tends to push everyone but his brother away - obligation leads to guilt, self loathing, obsession, etc.
Alphonse, on the other hand, knows his brother is sacrificing his body and his power to save him, and that the longer it takes, the more Edward is torn up inside. That's why Alphonse feels obliged to cheer Edward up whenever he can, even if it means he becomes depressed and wants to die again, something that seems to have been ignored by people. Scar is obligated to his brother for saving his life, and to his people, who were killed in the massacre of his town by state alchemists For the greater good.
How can you say a show where massacres happen on a scale that is only seen in the real world is not dark? If that scene had happened in Naruto or One Piece or Bleach, then the big hero would have charged in all guns blazing, removed all the bad guys in a puff of smoke, and saved everyone.
FMA is one of the shows where the good guys don't win most of the time, or does Edward have to die and be ressurected x number of times before you call this dark?
Want a real lesson in dark anime? Then watch Perfect Blue. Nothing has reminded me of that movie as much as FMA did, even though they're from completely different genres. Seriously though people, dark anime is not about colour pallette, music, comedy content, etc. It seems like many of you payed so much attention to these parts of the anime that you forgot it was all about the story. Okay, there's action and insanity and alchemical hi-jinks galore, but there's the serious side of the story which is essentially a story about obsession more than anything else - one of the darkest themes that exists.
The Philosopher's Stone is the ultimate prize, and even in the real world it's been likened to the Holy Grail or Alexander's Coffin. What would you do for the ultimate prize? How far would you go? How many would you kill? See my point yet. Seriously though, have another watch of it, and this time, pay attention to the story.
You may find it to be darker than you believed. What a lovely Day! Tormented with past memories of when she was their mother. Enough said really. But lord and behold she looked just like Trisha and tried to kill them to rid her mind of the memories.
Who has to kill what was once his mother? Edward, of course. After finding out Envy was the dead child of his father and Dante, his half brother then proceeds to stab him and leave him laying in his own blood to die. This is all so true?? Not reading all of this since I've yet to watch all of 03 but it definitely did do a better job handling Nina and such.
That's kinda why i loved fma way more than I thought i would. The story had a lot of effort put into it. Each version was gr8 and had it's ups and downs though. This website saves cookies to your browser in order to improve your online experience and show you personalized content. Read our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy to get more information and learn how to set up your preferences. Lets go over some of them, shall we? The poor girl. There are so many reasons why that is unbelievably wrong Best creep award.
I have to give it to her. Tormented with past memories of when she was their mother Sloth.
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