Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society’s Animation Festival, I was able to attend a screening of the FMA film tonight. After a harrowing odyssey of bizarre Sunday-night traffic that turned a normally 20-minute drive into a 90-minute serpentine through unfamiliar surface streets, I found a parking space and pulled […] Read more
And so, it ends. Was this a bit of an anti-climax? Well, sure – but in the same way Lord of the Rings earned its long coda, so did “Brotherhood”. After 63 episodes of action, intense drama and enough shared pain for 10 series, 22 minutes or so to send […] Read more
The long run of astonishing action-themed episodes ends at 62, as the penultimate edition of “Brotherhood” wraps up the major plot points with a quiet, reflective tone. We saw the apparent passing of two more major characters this week, one (Hoenehim) somewhat expected, albeit possibly under different circumstances. The other […] Read more
You know, I’m almost running out of adjectives to describe the ridiculous run of episodes FMA has had of late. Epic. GAR. You name it, and it fits. The only thing I could compare this final arc to in terms of sheer testosterone-driven, balls-out lunacy is the second Gurren-Laggan film. […] Read more