Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Fullmetal Alchemist (3-In-1 Edition), Vol. 1 by Hiromu Arakawa

9 reviews

nervcorp's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

holy fucking bongle!!!! i enjoyed that more than i thought!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, and Animal cruelty

febber's review

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: Violence, Genocide, War, and Death of parent

llama_books's review

challenging dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Child abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing, Genocide, and Death of parent

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

Minor: Religious bigotry, Colonisation, War, and Suicide

gabym's review

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

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, Medical trauma, Violence, and Death of parent

painausten314's review

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

Moderate: War

ktbee's review

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, Death of parent, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: War, Murder, and Grief

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

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

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Content Warnings

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