Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Fullmetal Alchemist I: Tomes 1-2-3 by Hiromu Arakawa

8 reviews

febber's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I get it now. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Genocide, Violence, Death of parent, and War

mardana's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Suicide, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, and War

gabym's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Death of parent

Minor: War

reclusivebookslug's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

My experience with this series so far: I watched the 2003-4 anime years ago, thinking that the Brotherhood version was some sort of sequel. At some point, I realized that it was actually a remake that people claim to be more accurate to the manga. In the intervening years, I also began reading manga in addition to watching anime, so I decided I would read the manga and then watch the Brotherhood anime. I have been putting it off for some time for reasons I don't fully understand myself and due to multiple phases of reading slumps, but I'm so glad I've finally started in earnest.

The thing I love most about this series is the balance between contrasting tones or moods. It's both serious and lighthearted, funny and tragic, and full of both action-adventure and emotional character-building -- but none of these juxtapositions make it feel incongruous.

When I watched the original anime, I wasn't able to pick up on a lot of the foreshadowing. Now that I have some idea of the future timeline of the plot, it is amazing to see how intricately thought out everything is! Also -- and this may be an unpopular opinion -- I enjoy how much shorter the actual fight scenes are. When I'm watching anime, my eyes sort of glaze over during the long battles, but the comic format doesn't lend itself so much to intricately choreographed violence, so that's never a problem here.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

painausten314's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: War

foxgloveinspace's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny relaxing sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, and War

ktbee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief, Murder, and War

Minor: Misogyny

cws: with regards to child and animal abuse

this is probably the most potentially upsetting aspect of the book; where a child and animal are sacrificed and combined to form a chimera, before being murdered

drizzlybear's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent