Kei's Anime Reviews

Fullmetal Alchemist Episode 16

"Lost Thing"

I didn't think Mustang was that great at first, but ever since they made him act randomly psychotic, he's become my favorite character in the show.

I had two comments in my review of the last episode of Fullmetal Alchemist. The first was that I wanted to see how the various characters reacted to everything Ed said at the end of the episode (letting all that dirty Ishbal information out). Well, the answer to that one was... not much.

The other thing I said was that I anticipated a few cooldown episodes in the near future. What I meant to say, of course, by "near future" was "the next episode". So here it is. Some really non-plot-essential stuff happens in this episode. Most of it is character development by a bunch of random strangers, who (hopefully) will become important at some point. I hope this is true, and an episode wasn't wasted introducing this group of minor characters who serve no purpose other than to make Ed .1% more mature.

I guess the lost thing is how to make a good episode!

Rating: C

Posted by Kei at February 2, 2004 02:45 AM