Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Episode 1

All in all, this is a great start to the series. The opening credits were enough to get me hooked. The image of first Ed, then Al being “taken apart,” leaving only little Winry to be buffeted back and forth in the wind is both chilling and heartbreaking, and the song is stuck in my head already. The lyrics are about regret and wishing to go back and change the past to erase your mistakes. A fitting song for a series with this one’s background, I think, and from the looks of it so far it’s going to deliver.

Licensed – Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

In possibly the best news I totally heard three days after it happened, Funimation has licensed the new Hagaren series, titling it Fullmetal Alchemist : Brotherhood. Yes, you heard that right, I’m excited about a series being licensed.

In the past, after series have gotten licensed it meant several horrible, horrible things. First was the dubbing. Granted, this wasn’t as much of a problem after DVDs came on the market but unless you were looking at a bigger title like Ranma 1/2 or Slayers, you were stuck with the dubs. Very. Bad. Dubs. Second was the localization. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard/seen someone use Hamasaki Ayumi interchangeably with Jennifer Lopez.

Loving Your Friends So Much They Hate You

I admit it, one of my goals in life is to make sure that everyone I know is in some way party to my madness. With some people it’s easier than others; they already had one foot in the door of geekery. These are the people I get in the door with Death Note and move along until they’re slowly watching the Haruhi dance on repeat, eyes glazed and wondering why Kyon doesn’t just get into it, already. I mean, he’s done this dance a million times by now.