Ranting on Full Metal Alchemist

So even after posting last night and heading off to bed I still couldn't get to sleep right away. Just as well as after a little bit it finally hit me that yesterday was Saturday and that meant a new Full Metal Alchemist episode at 11:30.

It is really rather hard for me to summarize the story at this point, I missed the very end of the first season and the death of one of the main characters that apparently happened then. But last nights episode... Sin... Wow... How many secrets can you reveal, how much character development, how much drama and deception can you pack into a half hour?

It was also exactly what my brain needed as it was enough to pretty much draw all of my focus and let me ponder that until I fell asleep without random weirdness popping up inside my skull and keeping me awake.

The fifth DVD of the series ( The Cost of Living ) comes out in a few days, and I've seen all those episodes already but it'll be nice to see them again with a literal English subtitle track for as pure a translation as I'll get of the original Japanese story ( it also has an English caption subtitle track ). It is also the point where the story goes from being just a fun watch and a good story to where your jaw suddenly starts dropping at regular intervals at the choices the characters are forced to make and the depth of the story.

The sixth DVD ( Captured Souls ), which I've only seen the second and third of the four episodes on it, comes out in November and I am not sure if it ends the season or if there is one more DVD after that which I missed before the second season started.

And if I am going to go this fanboy on the series, I really should just do actual DVD reviews and synopsis of them at some point...