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Story: 5/10
FMA 03 started out following the manga but caught up to it too quickly, so they had to make fillers and stretch out some stuff. 03's
pacing was actually fairly close to the manga's, albeit a bit slower becauase of the wait for the manga. But after some time (it happened gradually), the anime started to take on another story and by the end it was completely different from the manga. The fact that the story changed direction from the beginning left a lot of things unexplained and/or twisted into something else, and the bits of foreshadowing they included from the manga were ignored. The "plot twist" they threw out near the end came completely out of left field (which, in this case, was a very bad thing) and was not foreshadowed at all. Not to mention that it didn't really make any sense. It seemed to me that they just wanted to rush and finish the show so they gave us something and didn't bother explaining it: Here you go, here's your ending, goodbye.
This show didn't really touch on any deep and philosophical issues either. "Don't try human transmutation. " Um, okay? I won't? Not like it exists in our world anyway.
Most of the faults in the story were just due to the fact that this was originally going to be a manga adaptation that they had to change into something else.
Both the ending
songs are pretty good,both bringing contrasts to the opening with softer, smoother tunes. The soundtrack ranged from average to pretty good. The songs in the battle scenes weren't
anything special but did there jobs of increasing the tension, but the the best parts are the piano tracks for the moments of death. The piano tracks were pretty simple and weren't complex at all, but the tune the tracks carried brought out the tone perfectly.
The animation is mostly pretty good. I guess the best word would probably be "efficient". Akame ga Kill looks good where it counts and it cuts back in parts that weren't that important. And I respect that. Not every anime has a gigantic budget to work on. (Unless its from KyoAni). The fight scenes looked great and although there were a few scenes that were cut back.
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Crimson Manga
Gets TV Anime in 2023". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on March 19, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
