My New Favorite Show
Yes, it’s geeky and there isn’t really much defending it, but my new favorite show is anime. It airs Thursday and Saturday nights on Adult Swim. Check their website for current showtimes.
The show of course is Fullmetal Alchemist. It’s about a pair of brothers extremely interested in alchemy, the science of making anything as long as you have the correct ingredients. They try revive their mother using this science/art, which is forbidden. They find out why. The older brother loses two limbs while the younger loses his entire body, being bonded to some empty armor.
The main reason I love the show though is the character, Winry (as seen to the left). Blonde, cute, smart, and mechanically inclined (she made Ed’s automail limbs), she’s everything a good geek like me looks for in a woman. Well, except of course being flesh and blood or non-fictional, but relationships are all about compromise. I’m willing to forgive those traits.
I watched about 13 episodes of Full Metal Alchemist via fansub before it was licensed. I actually downloaded something like 31 episodes. But I never watched them all.
Not because it’s bad–hell, it’s great. But because I was literally scared of it :>
I used to be scared of everything (The Empire Strikes Back sent me fleeing from the room). I don’t go see movies much, so I haven’t had the experience of being too scared/upset to stay in the room in awhile. My most recent experience with this feeling of not being able to handle tension was with Pulp Fiction.
But Gluttony bothers me. A lot. I can’t stand him. After a time, it got to the point that I would open each new episode with dread. Would Gluttony be in it? Would someone else be eaten?
So I pretty much stopped watching because of that.
Yeah…I’m a wuss.
Ha ha. I love scary. I can actually watch stuff like Hellraiser and just laugh.
What’s fansub? I could google it, but I’m lazy.
A subtitled version created by a fan. In the olden days, these were circulated on VHS. Now, you can get them in glorious DivX’d avi via Bittorrent. AnimeSuki is a major source of (unlicensed) anime bittorrent links.
fma is awsome