This guy's got some really excellent analyses of a few anime. This only has FMA spoilers if you don't know what happens to Greed and Ling, but take the spoiler warning in most of his videos seriously, because if you haven't seen what he's talking about you'll probably regret watching them.
Have to agree with him. FMA:B is very well balanced in all aspects, but without its memorable and well thought-out characters it would not be the classic it is established as. And I dare to say you could make similar analysis about majority of characters in the show. There's something for everybody.
Yeah, he's mostly doing HxH characters so far but I wouldn't be surprised if he does more from FMA. Characterization is a strength--maybe even the strength--of both shows, and moreover there's not a lot of overlap between the two about what makes the characters interesting.
FMA:B also does one trick with Lin that I absolutely love in any series or movie, when done right. They first introduce the character as goofy, weird and bit questionable. You think they are comic relief or just silly for some yet to be revealed reason. Then something triggers their instics and shit like this happens Trigun does similar thing with Vash. Just another good examples of this trope.
Aw man now I gotta watch Trigun again, too. Woe is me. Edit: and hell let's just throw Cowboy Bebop in there too since it's been a good decade or so since I last watched Adult Swim.
I really enjoy this guy's analysis. And yeah, Lin and Greed where surprisingly strong characters for being such side characters. They felt like side characters, but they seemed like side characters that still bent the story their way just through their sheer willpower. Which is pretty amazing of fictional characters.
Wrapping up Trigun. Watching the sub this time just since I hadn't previously. The dub's better, but only because there's one scene that gives it the edge:
1st episode of that gundam twilight axis felt more like a trailer/promo. But I swear that red suit at the end was char's last mobile suit. Pretty sure it is the Sazabi from char's counterattack. or at least the same model if not the specific suit. I remember now. Char ejected from the Sazabi before he and amuro disappeared. I think that is the Sazabi. apparently the gundam in this series is based heavily off the NT-1 and made from mostly salvaged parts some of the parts are from other gundams (lord knows enough have been wrecked in the UC.)
Hey I never said it wasn't badass. But whenever anybody makes this face at you you know your best case scenario is that you're about to die messily. And everybody in the show makes that face.
Yep. Hellsing is one of the series where you can see artists had fun drawing the characters. Proper over the top crazy.
shit. The castlevania series might actually be good. It's a netflix series. Only watched the first episode but since I actually played some of the games I know the backstory that they didn't really go into in the episode.
watched the first 4 episodes, it looks pretty interesting, definitely worth a watch. Very gory, but that's kinda par for the course given the nature of the series in general.
