PSHowever, if you write this only to piss ppl off, or in your own words for “publicity”, then you certainly are inconsiderate of other ppl’s feelings. You have to understand that ppl value different things. Things that might seem stupid to you, let’s say anime, might be what other ppl value the most. What if someone starts to say shit on your family which Im sure you value a lot? How do you feel? Sure it’s a free country, and in your own words:”everyone has their own opinions” but by doing things without caring for others aren’t we hurting the ppl we don’t even know, or sometimes ppl we actually love? I read somewhere that you watched Noein and there was a line I remebered the most. Karusa (that raven guy from the future):”No need to talk to him. He (karusa in the presen) certainly doesn’t know how to care for others.”

My point of writing the article was entirely a publicity stunt. If you look closely, you will find that it worked. I do not care about objectivity etc. as that is not the focal point of my RAGED articles. As you can see by the mere title of the articles that they are simply made to piss people off, such as yourself wasting your time writing a massive essay that I don’t really care for. As for you saying that I fall in the pitfall that “many anime fan reviewers” etc. fall into I can but argue the opposite, that is I am quite the minority. Find a REAL review, not opinionated made up bullshit that I wrote, that doesn’t like FMA. Therein you shall find the purpose of my article, a viewpoint that goes against the grain and that is why people read it.

I can not and unable to stress enough the point of my article that I pointed out to in previous replies I made. Simply, I am not trying to look at the anime objectively and I do not care that even in the article I act hypocritical because the essay itself is entirely for entertainment (largely for myself and not for fanboys who get so upset they write essays in reply).

I was not trying to give a balanced review. If you listen to the podcast you will find balanced reviews there. That’s why the articles are called “RAGED” is it that hard for you to understand? I make no real points, the writing style is for entertainment, for Godsake I don’t even give a score. I provide no proof to support my opinions.

I am reading the rest of your points and I just have to say that you do not understand the concept of the article. Let me sum it up in one sentence: IT IS NOT A REVIEW, IT’S MADE TO PISS PEOPLE OFF

First of all, you say: “That is my opinion, but I am not going to back up on editorial with objectivity. ”

But, when reading your review itself, you say: “You know he’s heading in the right direction but he spends his time just praising FMA because he loves it while not being able to look at it objectively.”

This points to a contradictio in terminis. If you imply that someone (who loves FMA) is unable to look at it objectively, you are implying that YOU (who doesn’t like it) ARE being objective. This contradicts your current line of explanation, in which you assertain that it’s only an opinion without any objectivity being claimed. It is clear to me the parent poster who responded to you (albeit harshily) had the same impression as me: you can not make an assumption (even an implied one) to be objective, without giving proof of your claim.

The proof you gave was, however, non-existant; it boils down to mere opinions. And even those were of a poor level. I mean, part of your objection towards FMA is apparently that it’s no good because it has become ‘main-stream’. This is a weak argument, because nothing inherently dictates that something that becomes mainstream isn’t worth much (I know one has examples where this is the case, but it’s not a general rule on itself). I didn’t know FMA was popular; I never even heard of it. Still, I liked it far above other anime that I saw before and after that. That has nothing to do with how mainstream it got to be.

Another remark I really found stupid in your review, was about Al being gay and have incesteous thoughts with his brother…I mean, really, if that’s the extent of your argumentation for a balanced review, you’d better stop reviewing. For gods’ sake, what has that got to do with it? Gayness, apart from beauty, is also in the eye of the beholder, it would seem. But you know, even if you were right about it (which is highly unlikely); what does it matter? Since when is being gay (especially as an anime-character) a defining characteristic to conclude the anime isn’t worth anything? If you have issues with that, it must be an ordeal for you to make a review whenever an ambiguous shonen-character appears, let alone if an anime has shotacon-elements in it). However, it has *absolutely* no bearing on the question of the quality of an anime, and the fact that you use so many trivial ‘measurements’ to define what’s not good with FMA, makes your whole review (or ‘editorial’, as you like) to be pretty weak and nonsensical.

From the whole bunch of remarks, only about two arguments made some sense; the rest was just idiotic opinion-spouting. Which is, indeed, something you can do, but then don’t present it as if you have more objectivity then someone else, and don’t do the trouble of providing ‘arguments’ why FMA is so bad. If you try to validate your opinion by arguments, then you are asserting that it is more then just a mere opinion (opinions don’t need to give any argumentation, after all), and in that case, you have to show that your arguments have some validity. In your case, most of them don’t.

BTW, I liked evangelion too, but on a whole other plane than I liked FMA. You fall in the same pitfall that so many anime-fans/reviewers have: you fail to see there are several ways in which one can enjoy a given anime genre. You don’t look at what that genre is supposed to provide, but at your own issues with it. That’s why even some very good anime-reviewers suddenly review almost all hentai as being ‘bad’ because it ‘has no character development’. For gods’ sake, that’s not the point: you don’t watch regular porn for it’s story-line or deep plots neither! Hentai isn’t about deep plots, or character development, it’s goal is totally different, so if you’re making a review with set expectations, you are going to find it lacking, obviously. In a way, you do the same with FMA: yes, there may not be as many hidden references and intellectual challenges or deep philosophy as in evangelion, but that’s not the point of FMA either, and to compare both is like the proverbial apples and oranges.

I would like to point out the strong elements of FMA which you seem oblivious to, but I fear my post is already long enough as it is. Maybe it’ll be useful for some extra thoughts on the matter.