And properly this time! The search for the crimson tincture is on, and the brothers are there to get back what they lost. Yes, yes, yes. All fans, prepare your applause. Ladies, prepare your squealing. You-tubers, prepare your keepvids and uploaders. I have one piece of news for those of you with anime-ated lives out there.
Here it is, then. Breathe, breathe...
Now read this carefully.
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Fullmetal Alchemist 2
(Hagane no Renkinjutsushi 2)
Yes, yes. ANN's #1 Most Popular Anime, and #10 Highest rated is to be beaten by itself. Finally. Now that Hiromu Arakawa’s finally done with the manga, we don’t have to make some fake ending anymore! This season will not be a continuation of the past season, the movie and the OVA’s. This season will be a retelling of the story of the lives of the Elric brothers, and all those they meet. (That’s what they said, anyway.) And let’s just hope they keep faithful to the manga.
The season will premiere in Japan, come April 2009. All other information will be announced over at the official website, which is http://hagaren.jp . Last December 7th, they released a teaser trailer. According to Anime News Network, it was shown at the end of an episode of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season. The teaser trailer shows 15-year-old Edward Elric, still in his red coat, Alphonse Elric as a suit of armor, and Roy Mustang, without the eyepatch he wore at the end of the series or the movie. The background was set at a place which was seemingly Risembool. The narration and the text says, “New training … a fullmetal artificial limb, a body of armor … the brothers' journey begins. Fullmetal Alchemist: April 2009 Training. In this palm, is there hope or despair?” With much emphasis to the word “begins”, fans all over have speculated that the second season will be a retelling of the anime. And since ‘everything repeated becomes the truth’, somehow, I have a feeling it is.
Indeed, it’s going to be a long wait. But there’s still plenty of other anime out there to catch up to. In any case, I just kept tabs on FMA for the reason that I just watched the movie a few weeks ago (four years after I watched the movie, haha) and the OVA’s. And I thought the movie was tremendous, with another unexpected twist in every step of the way. And as always, I watched it twice, once in Japanese and once in English. Why? Because, Funimation made dubbing an actual art. Other than that, FMA the movie, The Conqueror of Shamballa, had fantastic music. I wasn’t too surprised when I looked it up and found out that it had an award solely for its music. Just because of the movie—and my undying love for Hoenheim of Light, haha (I have the FMA keychain)—I was able to read all of the released and scanlated manga, which, by the by, has 89 chapters, within six days. (If that’s not enough, I was able to read the 90th chapter tonight even though it was released just this morning in Japan—thank you to http://flameofme.blogspot.com/ for that.)
Now let’s just hope that the manga won’t be fully scanlated until AFTER my examinations.
Otherwise, I’ll be stuck reading it, trying to follow every hook of suspense there is.
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