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If you liked Fullmetal Alchemist add

...then you might like Mob Psycho 100 add

FMA03 and MP100 have one really important thing in common, to me: despite featuring characters with awesome superpowers (and therefore potential for dozens of drawn-out epic fight scenes), they have a pointed focus on the NARRATIVE and EMOTIONAL stakes of each battle rather than the scale or badassery. It's a couple minutes of action framed by hours of context, reflections, trauma, evaluation, etc. What ultimately matters isn't the physical strength or creative abilities of the protagonist, but their reasons for acting the way they do and how they deal with the choices they make. 03!FMA is distinctly less prototypical-shounen-y than the source manga or Brotherhood adaptation, which to me is one of its strongest suits. Battles are incredibly few and far between, and last a couple minutes at maximum because the focus is instead on how the characters react to the conflict. Mob Psycho 100 is concerned above all else with the mental and emotional state of its ridiculously powerful protagonist; the psychic abilities he wields themselves are entirely secondary to this. The story is about dealing with emotions far more than it is about using psychic powers, and I think it has that in common with 03FMA, which has very few and very intimate conflicts that serve the characters' development, rather than cool grand-scale alchemical duels between stronk dudes. (Don't expect another Edward, though. If anyone Mob is much more like Alphonse.)