Something Best Beloved should watch. Bonus points if it's anime!
I say Full Metal Alchemist because, yeah, I don't care if everyone else in fandom's already seen it, I only just started watching it on Wednesday and through a strong determination and hours staring at a computer screen am three-quarters through the 51 episodes and *desperately* wanting to know what happens next.
It's got magic. It's got anime humour. It's got Heroes on a Quest. It's also got more adult themes of government, rationals of war, and the horrible things that people will do to acheive their aims (either knowing or not knowing the consequences and costs).
It's also got continuity.
That gets bolded because finding an anime series where the character met in episode four turns out to be met again in episode 26, proving part of the governments lies and still hinting at other truths we don't yet know, is rare as all hell. This is a series where I'm paying attention to all of the tertiary characters because any of them could show up again later and it could *mean something* and good god I want to be able to *understand* it when it happens.
So, yeah, in short: Full Metal Alchemist = good watching.
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I say Full Metal Alchemist because, yeah, I don't care if everyone else in fandom's already seen it, I only just started watching it on Wednesday and through a strong determination and hours staring at a computer screen am three-quarters through the 51 episodes and *desperately* wanting to know what happens next.
It's got magic. It's got anime humour. It's got Heroes on a Quest. It's also got more adult themes of government, rationals of war, and the horrible things that people will do to acheive their aims (either knowing or not knowing the consequences and costs).
It's also got continuity.
That gets bolded because finding an anime series where the character met in episode four turns out to be met again in episode 26, proving part of the governments lies and still hinting at other truths we don't yet know, is rare as all hell. This is a series where I'm paying attention to all of the tertiary characters because any of them could show up again later and it could *mean something* and good god I want to be able to *understand* it when it happens.
So, yeah, in short: Full Metal Alchemist = good watching.