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Just a Masterpiece!
This anime is like a Roller-coaster ride. Full of drifting actions, bleeding edge emotions, a very powerful plot and with so many great (Pss...I mean best) Characters. The journey starts with two brothers but after you've gone deep, you'll face so many lives and their stories! Just a full mind blower! I think each person who knows the name 'Anime' should no, MUST WATCH IT!!!!
It’s literally a masterpiece shounen anime and that is why considered as #1 ranked show and is constantly referred to as greatest show ever created.
FMAB- Plot (No Spoilers)

The FMAB plot and character are its strongest aspects. The world ... that it creates. Never once does the story contradict its own rules, and even smallest of details becomes very important and literally everything gets clearly jelled in the story with passing of the show. It unveils itself at just the right pace to keep you interested whilst still keeping other things for very end. It’s one of the marks of strong storytelling and it is definitely a benchmark for any writer out there.

The series follows the story of two alchemist brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, who wants to restore their bodies after a disastrous failed attempt to bring their mother back to life through alchemy. They do the sin of human transmutation and lost their bodies and that’s how story unfolds. In beginning, One of the best scene comes when scientist transmuting his own daughter into a dog. The show has very few flaws, like telling audience so many times about how ed and al lost their body and sometimes lame comedy in serious moments. But, with every episode it becomes Mind blowing. Every character is amazing and all characters are developed in a brilliant way through series. Around the show (episodes 40-53ish) in which the show drags incredibly, with the battles, monologue between the characters and suspense.

One of the best thing about Fullmetal Alchemist is it's characters. Every single character has a completely different personality and exceptional development, each one having their different reasons to act the way they do. Even the villains are awesome, with their dark stories and troubled personalities that make our heroes journey long and troublesome. It also has the best main villain of all times. Every character is amazing and all characters are developed in a brilliant way through series. You will fall in love with both protagonists as well as antagonists. One thing about the main character Edward was that I loved the way Edward was even arrogant and rude and maintained his persona until the last. That showed his flaw. He was the most human character possible in every way with his morals and ethics intact.

The music is just heart touching. Even the intensity they create through music in between is unmatchable. Animation is fantastic, less long fight scenes, short fight and battles are breathtaking.

It’s philosophical part is totally stunning. It even has a bloody philosopher stone:). It touches everything from nihilism, religion, god, law of equivalent exchange, Existentialism, Rationalism, life, fate, truth, humanity etc. every character has it’s own philosophy and there’s so much we can learn from each and every damn character.

One thing: Remember that full metal alchemist and full metal alchemist: brotherhood is different. Make sure to watch the latter one.

It's a pretty interesting plot, it definitely kept me hooked to watch all 12 episodes. Although some of it's plot is pretty predictable, the plot progression is just right, not too fast, not too slow. A lot of people say the progression is too slow, but even then, slow progression just gives me more time to process things. The opening was kind of slow, I'm gonna be honest, but they manage to make the rest of the show interesting. The mid parts were perfectly executed to build up tension and anticipation for the finale, while also giving the viewers time to rest from the carnage. ... The finale was absolutely great, it was total human disorder, panic and carnage. And it really showed how irrational people can get in such intense situations, they could've executed the drama better, but it was still great nonetheless. The final scenes with the main characters, was not the best closure, kind of anticlimactic. But I still loved it.

The "Plot holes" these low star reviews are talking about, are kind of irrelevant, and they didn't even go to write a full review mentioning all of the said plot holes, because I really didn't see many. "Why don't they just close the school down" well obviously, the extra would just wander to the next school to spread terror, and now to inexperienced students. So that isn't the best idea. Supernatural forces, even in real life, are not ones to mess with.

"Slow killer"
It's just a freaking Masterpiece!!! I know a lot of people will not agree but. I know this is slow. but still.... You won't be dissatisfied when you watch this fabulous movie. I won't give any hints or so. But know that, at first you'll it's a non easy. but when the story commences, you'll see this is a heart warming story. I watched it two times straight and every time I was so HIGH, yes High with such emotions racing through my mind! In the end, have this movie for a trip of emotions.
“Jarring and intriguing” is an appropriate way to describe the ... movie’s story as a whole. Plot progression was logical, but felt unevenly paced. Exposition takes up most of the film while rising action builds rather slowly in the background. It isn’t until the last twenty minutes that anything heavily dramatic occurs, and both climax and falling action are squished hurriedly together; in fact, denouement literally happens during the movie’s end credits.

Another Isekai? With high schooler protagonists? Yeah. Arifureta actually pulls from a lot of different anime and manga traditions to cobble it's plot together. I was reminded of Fullmetal Alchemist, Shield Hero, and even Tokyo Ghoul. The main hero is an Otaku, and the author of the book explains in the back that this was originally conceived by the author under his pseudonym Chuuni Lover, though those Chuuni aspects were toned down and only really apparent in side stories. Still, it's apparent the author is writing with Otaku interests in mind.

Protagonist: Hajime
High school confidant: Kaori
Typical hero male: Kouki
Vampire Lolita Maiden on the cover: ???

Lets get ... this out of the way: This book is for mature audiences. There is blood and there is sex (Not just your typical innuendo). While nothing is ever described in super detail, it isn't left up to imagination.

The early part of the novel is solid. There's tension created between our Otaku hero and his jealous classmates over the affection unwillingly received from the beautiful Kaori. This tension comes to a head midway through the book, but because of circumstances, the book becomes less about those High schooler interactions and more about survival. I'm curious how they'll revisit these feelings in future volumes.

Battles are bloody. The monsters are clearly lethal. Much of the story reminded me of a bloodier Sword Art Online in that there is this labyrinth of monsters to get through for our heroes. I certainly felt like anything could happen to set the tone for this series. I hope grimdark developments have the potential to happen down the line and this doesn't become too lighthearted / feel good of a series. That edge, the fact that you need to have a beast like mentality to defeat the beasts, is something I appreciated.

I liked the battles, but I was eh about the quick relationship development. The story could have taken a very dark turn, but it chooses to only skirt that line. I'm hoping for maybe more drama going forward, but it appears this may become more harem focused, which I'm not totally on board for. But as a single volume, the story of a man's journey from weakling to not so weakling, it's good. It had some surprises in store, which is all you can ask for.

Conceptually the series is sound, a country ruined by a greedy monarchy and there is a faction of individuals that hope to overthrow the government and restore balance. Sadly with this concept the series fails to paint an even picture and is tonally inconsistent throughout.

The first few episode actually hooked me in, subverting my expectations. Right of the bat it waste no time in placing the lead character in peril and completely throws you off guard. A few episodes in, what I assumed was a key figure is killed off, completely subverting my expectations. But then it seemed to follow the same tropes and patterns ... just randomly killing off key members and bringing new members just to kill them off too, it became a repetitive pattern and any initial reaction is no longer present.

With 2 opposing groups with different ideals it would have been an interesting setup to see both factions torn between loyalty and ideal but its not to be. The series maker seems conflicted with there story, take for example the corrupt government generals / soldiers who are mostly depicted as cold blooded heartless killer often smiling uncontrollably when massacring innocent people but at the same time the series will flash scenes of how happy these cold blooded killers are with there companions and how much of a normal life they have or how they are fighting for justice. I can't fathom if the developers wanted us to sympathise with these horrible individuals.

Also the Imperial Weapons (this shows form of super weapons granting super human abilities) is so uneven. Said weapons are created to protect the kingdom but why are some are overly powerful transform into gigantic beings, summon the dead, super human strength, generate ice from thin air, control liquid etc. and then you have a flamethrower, a poisonous sword and a sniper rifle. Its heavily unbalanced and makes no sense.

Lead character Tatsumi is supposedly this gifted individual and all round nice guy but throughout the series he has no growth or real development. He's this atypical anime trope character but lacking real distinction. It is also weird how every single girl in the series fawn over Tatsumi, often thrusting his face into there bossoms. The film is overly sexualised with random moments of bikini shots and the camera will occasionally start on the bossoms then pans up to the relevant shot.

Akame Ga Kill is uncompromising in its depiction of violence and that is a strong point for the series, because violence and war is never pretty. Animation is fluid and the voice acting is fine. Underneath is a strong concept that the developers fail to really explore, its still relatively entertaining with large amounts of gore and violence.

Season 4: Great Season

I’ll admit, the art style did change and the characters felt off at first. AT FIRST. I didn’t know what happened, so I was being ignorant and biased. I didn’t like this season at first. But after rewatching it, it started to grow on me. When I learned about the studio change, I was able to accept season 4 more.
This season is actually better than season 3 in terms of plot, source material, and development. Art style, it’s debatable with who you’re talking to. I like the designs on most of the characters. Rias, Xenovia, and Kiba took some time, but it’s ... not AS BAD as everyone is making it out to be. Animation was actually better than all three seasons. While episode 0 retconned the ending of season 3 and the current studio didn’t do what the old studio did, the Juggernaut Drive sequence is more visually haunting and threatening, and the action sequences in this show does have weight to it.
The villains are interesting in this season. The Hero Faction is an interesting concept to be depicted as villains, and they’re set up for what’s to come next season. Sairaorg is an interesting foil/ally to Issei and Rias, and I like how the second half of season 4 was an Rating game rather than another villain finale.
The world-building keeps on coming. Issei develops more into a man, but still a pervert. I did like how they sidelined Rias, Akeno, And Koneko to give Asia, Xenovia, Irina, and Rossweisse time to develop within the story and with Issei. Ravel’s re-introduction to the cast was unexpected, but I understood it after reading light novels 11–12.
Best Moments: Issei vs Sairaorg; Issei’s time with Asia, Xenovia, Irina, and Rossweisse; Kyoto Bridge and Town Fight; Issei and Rias helping Sairaorg’s mom; Sauna Scene; Akeno, Koneko, Asia, Xenovia, and Irina comforting Issei; Rating Game; and Issei and Rias kiss!
This is just me, I prefer the new art style because I feel that the characters in this show does look closely to being real and the animation is actually better. I do think that they could try mixing the old animation with the new animation for Rias, Xenovia, Kiba , and Vali. Maybe Great Red and Tannin too, but just for size. I’m not hung up on art styles, so I can accept what’s being given.

Season 3: World-Explore

This season had some issues, but great moments with the cast. Rias’ rage was spine-tingling and Issei’s rage was jaw-dropping, awesome, and haunting. The development Issei has is still in tact, and I like how he’s making time with the other girls (mostly) in his harem.
Harem continues to grow with Rias, Asia, Akeno, Koneko, Xenovia, and Irina. Akeno fully explains her relationship with her estranged father, learning about Koneko’s past, and Irina’s role within the group. I did enjoy Xenovia’s moments with Issei. The best scene with the harem was Issei getting “killed”. I was not expecting that, but everyone’s reaction was genuine ... and spine-tingling.
This show went more into the mythologies. Norse-mythology was a surprise for me (Loki, Odin, Rossweisse). Fallen Angels were explored, as well as the Underworld. Kuroka is an interesting character and an vital aspect to Koneko and Issei (You already know or you will know). The villains were ok expect for Loki and Diadora. Great Red, Tannin, and Ophis were 🔥🔥
Oppai Dragon was funny af and Ddraig’s reaction was priceless!
The ending of Season 3 felt like the show did end, but I didn’t read into the specifics of Season 3 after watching this for the first or second time.

Season 2: THE BEST SEASON

Akeno, Kiba, Saji, and Sirzechs were great in this season. Xenovia, Irina, Azazel, Gasper, and Vali were astounding additions to the show.
Kiba and Akeno’s arcs were fantastic, and I loved them more than I did in season 1. Kiba is up there with Issei for best male characters, Akeno’s love for Issei is as good as Rias, Koneko’s feelings for Issei was UNEXPECTED, Asia’s gentleness didn’t waver even with what happened to her, Xenovia and Irina’s roles were great, Gasper was a good welcome, Saji’s role expanded and made him more likeable, and Azazel and Vali’s roles were astounding!
Harem continued to ... grow with Akeno (Unexpectedly), Koneko (Slowly and surprisingly), and Xenovia (Surprisingly and funny).
The plot actually improved and the fact that the first villain, Warmonger Kokabiel, knew and revealed that God has been deceased for how long and the HEAVENS and the higher ups covered it up for everything that has occurred to that point was interesting and shocking.
Issei vs Vali is one of the best fights of this show, due to the seriousness and comedy it had.

Season 1: Good Introduction

Season 1 was well-organized on tone, characters, pace, and story.
Issei Hyoudou. Issei f**king Hyoudou is a UNDERDOG!! While he may not be special, interesting, or complex, Issei just doesn’t fall into the the stereotypical MC that I have learned about this genre. He has one goal and he’s determined by it, become a HAREM King. He does develop as a character but keeps the idea of Harem King consistent.
Rias Gremory, the best female protagonist of the show and top 3 women of DXD. Her personality, her grace, her status in this show was great. I don’t care about Season 4’s art style, ... that’s still Rias Gremory.
Akeno, Koneko, Asia, Kiba, and Ddraig were outstanding additions to the show. Each were compelling in their own ways. Other characters (Saji, Sona, Issei’s classmates and best friends) were good/great.
While it’s an Harem Anime, it didn’t go STRAIGHT into being a harem anime. It BUILD on Issei and the women that falls for him, starting with Asia and Rias.
Issei being essential in the show was a surprise to me. The fact that the FIRST episode killed Issei off showed how brutal this show is and how crucial this guy is.
Lore: Angel, Fallen Angels, and Devils were new, including Religion, Sacred Gear and Dragons.
Riser Phenex was a good antagonist for the first season. The fact that after he was defeated and Ravel, his younger sister, defended him from Issei, she develops a crush on him after he stood up to her.

* * *MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING* * *
I have an (undoubtedly deserved) reputation for revealing more of a show’s story than I probably should, but HERE I’m afraid I have to frankly spoil things, because you really can’t appreciate the horrifying dysfunctionality of its characters unless I lay it all out.

What we have here is a typical hentai scenario played RELATIVELY non-hentai: yes, there's nudity, and even foreplay; you'll also see Natsuo and his partner-of-the-moment in bed afterward (though they WON'T ... be smoking cigarettes as they always used to do in similar scenes in American shows.) But you won't see the deed itself. (The manga is more graphic.) AND- I have to spoil here- don't get your hopes up about seeing the threesome that some of the show's promotional art seems to promise. There's no polygamy here, just serial monogamy; in other words, Natsuo's only involved with one at a time, but they keep taking turns.

As the show opens Natsuo has known Hina for about a year. Hina openly flirts with Natsuo at school- pretty unprofessional conduct even for a young, inexperienced teacher, but she has quite a number of behavioral issues, as we'll see. Apparently Natsuo's dad never got around to introducing his prospective bride OR her two daughters to Natsuo until the marriage is nearly a fait accompli, though he does ask his son's opinion before making it official. And you can almost see a thought bubble above Natsuo's head, which is surely captioned "Oh boy, oh boy, I'll be with Hina 24/7!". Even though she's going to legally be his sibling. And even though the person he lost his virginity with (whether the sex was "meh" or no), Hina's sister, is ALSO going to be a legal sibling living with him.

I wish that someone could have played a Jedi Mind Trick on Natsuo and put this thought into his head: "These are NOT the sisters you're looking for!". Instead, Natsuo quickly encourages his dad to marry Hina's mom, all very much as you'd expect from the sort of young man who thinks with his gonads instead of his brain. Natsuo has aspirations to be a writer, by the way, which suggests that Natsuo might be a Mary Sue kind of character for the manga's author. (I may say more about this later.) In any case, "domestic life" soon begins, but it's anything BUT blissful, because Hina, Rui, AND Natsuo are ALL seriously dysfunctional individuals.

Let's start with Hina. It seems she often drinks herself to sleep in the evenings. Apparently her mom has simply put up with this for a long time- and now Natsuo's dad does too- but let's face it: Hina's a grown woman, and her parent(s) could at least have insisted she get some help as a condition of her continuing to reside with them. I'm not sure if the alcohol is to blame, but Hina also exhibits some frighteningly over-the-top behavior when she's trying to make a point. She's always telling the male students that they're "just kids"- even though she seems awfully immature herself- and the first time our hero Natsuo actually makes a pass at her (this is AFTER she's become his stepsister) she doesn't calmly tell him he's acting inappropriately; she doesn't yell at him; she doesn't even slap him. No, she aggressively tries to turn the tables on him by pouncing on him and trying to undress him; when he's intimidated by this attack, she uses that as proof that he's "just a kid" (AGAIN), and that he's apparently not "man" enough for her. (His response to this, to show he's NOT a kid, is to...run away from home.) She'll try to make her point against involvement with him in a different (but equally disturbing) way later, but we suspect that she'll sooner or later succumb to his "charms" (whatever THOSE are; I NEVER figured that out), which will create its own problems when it happens. (Really, I think she got off lightly in the end; I'm pretty sure this would have ended much worse for her in the "real" world, either in Japan or the U.S.)

Rui is...no improvement, really. Despite being Hina's younger sister, her dour, sarcastic attitude somehow still seems less immature than Hina's behavior. She originally had sex with Natsuo "just to see what it was like", and is disappointed because it didn't "change" her. When her older sister passes out drunk, her custom is to simply drag her to her room by her arm caveman-style. Despite her first sexual experience with Natsuo being such a disappointment, she subsequently changes her mind and tries her best to seduce him. The only way I could interpret this is that she must have noted how Natsuo and Hina "got along well" (Hina's occasional bizarre attacks on him only happen in private), and got jealous. Still, she's nearly as slow as everyone else is to identify what's REALLY going on between Natsuo and Hina. The parents here are especially oblivious: they think the problem is the girls and Natsuo DON'T get along, when the real issue is of course the exact opposite. (Even Kirino's mom in the Second Season of Oreimo was sharper than THIS.) Natsuo naturally easily succumbs to Rui's seduction because, well, he's a male of the sort that Kouji Seo (Suzuka, Fuuka, A Town Where You Live) likes to depict.

In fact, this is the closest imitation of Seo’s style I've ever seen, and that applies to all THREE leads. For one thing, no matter how often Natsuo lies to and betrays one of the girls (usually with the other one), they STILL both remain resolutely in love with him, just as they all do with the male leads in Seo's shows. And there was one jaw-dropping bit of hypocrisy that reminded me of A Town Where You Live in particular: Natsuo finds out that Hina's involved with a married man named Shuu Hagiwara- who was one of her OWN former teachers. (Another teacher, named Reiji Kiriya, was supposedly transferred to Natsuo's school because he was involved with a student; AND as the faculty sponsor for the school's literary club Kiriya tries to induce Natsuo and another club member to kiss "as an experiment." WHAT IS IT WITH TEACHERS IN THIS SHOW???) But what made ME see red was that Natsuo then publicly confronts Hagiwara and Hina over this. Now let's be clear that by this time he's ALREADY made it plain to Hina (his stepsister/teacher) that he's romantically interested in her HIMSELF, so it seemed to me pure chutzpah for Natsuo to adopt this moral-indignation/it's-for-her-own-good pretense when there's ALSO the completely self-serving purpose of getting a rival out of the picture (or at least of diminishing their influence; see Haruto's similar approach to his rival for Yuzuki in Seo's A Town Where You Live.) And for him to make an issue of the moral unacceptability of someone ELSE’S desire for her...well, words fail me. But Hina- and this is arguably even MORE absurd- takes Natsuo's argument as completely motivated by selfless concern for her. (Which makes her not just an emotional trainwreck, but a particularly DIM emotional trainwreck.) Sure, he thinks he's in love with her. At times, he "loves" Rui too (or is at least receptive to her advances.) In between the two, he'll find himself in love with (or at least in "lust" with) a random girl or two, just to spice things up. THIS IS GOING TO BE HIS PATTERN FROM NOW ON. The anime HAS an ending, but not really closure, and this is for a reason: in the manga he keeps repeating this pattern well beyond the events (and the girls) of the anime. (In the anime we DO see him starting to get intimate with one other girl, and the show apparently wants us to admire his final decision to back off with her. But in context it looked to ME like he was perfectly willing to go all the way with her, and backed off just because he noticed something about her that seemed icky. ) And for all of Natsuo's belief in his "love" for Hina, when the real test comes his concern seems to be not with her well-being, but rather by how HE is affected by what happens to her.

Oh, I said I was going to talk about Natsuo's literary ambitions. Obeying the literary dictum "write about what you know", Natsuo eventually produces a thinly-disguised account of his relationship with Hina (thinly enough that just about anyone from his school could figure out who the "models" for it were.) For some reason he wins a prize. My first thought was, geez, first the "mess"-terpiece in My Sister, My Writer, and now THIS- is no one in Japan supposed to have respectable literary standards??? My second thought was, well, there IS always a viable market for trashy novels, so maybe his work COULD sell well- if it weren't such a far-fetched concoction about abominable characters who completely lack self-awareness.

I'll just mention that the screechy, strident, discordant piano piece that opens the show adds a hysterical note to the proceedings that ALSO does not help.

I was also going to note that I'm also watching ANOTHER show with teachers romantically involved with their students, a "comedy" called Why The Hell Are You Here, Teacher?, and with TWO shows with such similar themes, it seems like SOMEONE'S surely cribbing from someone else. (They've even both got an "inserting a suppository" scene.) I'm not saying that this topic is any LESS offensive played as comedy, but somehow it seemed a little less depressing that way. Domestic Girlfriend seems to demonstrate that exploitation genres don't really work as "straight" drama, in any case.

The Recs are all better shows about students- sometimes students in love, but they're almost always more mature than our cast here.

I hated all three major characters in this. Honestly, I've never seen such an oblivious, self-absorbed cast in all my life. Natsuo, in particular, is completely oblivious to the fact that REAL love is thinking about the welfare of the other person as well as your own. Hina had it right the first time: he's just a "kid" in that respect. Unfortunately, I never noticed a moment where he really "grew up". If this is what you get when you play a "hentai" theme as straight drama, it's probably better to leave it as hentai. — Allen Moody

Recommended Audience: Nudity, sexual foreplay, and adult themes. (Though this show proves that not everything that's "adult" is actually mature.)