Reading Full Metal Alchemist Manga

A lot of great anime series like Naruto and Bioboost Armore Guyver are based from a Japanese comic series or "manga" and I am starting to like another series called Full Metal Alchemist. Althought this series has since January 2001 and still ongoing, it doesn't stop me from reading this manga online.

Full Metal Alchemist is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. The world of Fullmetal Alchemist is styled after European Industrial Revolution. Set in a fictional universe in which alchemy is one of the most advanced scientific techniques known to man, the story follows the brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric, who want to restore their bodies after a disastrous failed attempt to bring their mother back to life through alchemy.

This would be my 2nd manga series that I will follow (Naruto is the other one) and I am also searching for the complete Bioboost Armor Guyver manga series.

Rediscovering Mecha Animes

When I was 7 years old, my older brother always rents betamax tapes about Anime "mecha" or robot cartoons which includes well known titles such as Voltes V, Daimos, and Mazinger Z. But recently I discovered in the internet (thru Youtube and Crunchyroll) that there are some episode (and full movies) about my favorite mecha cartoons which are Grandizer and Starvengers.

GRANDIZER RULEZ!

I was able to see some portions of the movie version of Grandizer on Youtube, it was last 15 minutes of the movie in which Grandizer was able to defeat the final enemey (but still I will continue my efforts find, better yet download the whole movie). Of All the Mecha Anime series, this one is my all time favorite (sorry Voltes V) and I love the way Johnny Bryant changes into Orion Quest when he shout his name "ORION QUEST!".

Orion Quest

Grandizer Opening Video

STARVENGERS

On the other hand, I was happy that I was able to watched again the whole Starvengers movie on Youtube ( I was lucky that there was a fan of the movie whoa able to uploaded the whole movie).

STARVENGER Introduction

Naruto Mania

Naruto has been one of most talk about anime series nowadays. Everyone around the net has been jumping on the Naruto bandwagon to the point that a lot of friendster user use the Naruto graphics and picture for their account design.

I asked myself "What makes this anime series more interested than any other anime series".

To satisfy my curiosity, I borrowed a bootleg DVD box set of the first anime series from my friend whose also into Naruto (albeit only up to episode 182, so I have to continue watching episodes 183 to 220 on YouTube).

The story was about Naruto Uzumaki, a loud, hyperactive and upredictable adolescent ninja named who is in constant search for recognition and has ambitioned that one days he would become Hokage, which is acknowledged as the leader and strongest of all ninja in their village. The other protagonist are Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno and their mentor, Kakashi Hatake).

In my personal opinion, watching this series would make you laugh because of Naruto's childish attitude and other funny moments involving the other characters in the series.