I consider FMA: Brotherhood the summit of Shounen, and the way a good shounen should be.
I don't say I hate shounen, I just hate cheap shounen.
Pretend Bleach added a big Battle against Aizen shortly after Ichigo rescues Rukia and then called it a day. It would have been a terrific anime not much lower in Quality than FMA but as it is it turns quite terrible later on.
I actually consider Naruto to be a good anime, if you cut out all the fillers and ignore Sasuke, it has a huge beautiful world thats getting explored and culminates in a war against an admittedly tacky opponent but mostly its pretty good.
I actually consider Naruto to be a good anime, if you cut out all the fillers and ignore Sasuke, it has a huge beautiful world thats getting explored and culminates in a war against an admittedly tacky opponent but mostly its pretty good.
Short and long running animes are a completely different genre, long anime can add a scale and elaboration to its world that simply can not be achived in the short run while shorter animes can focus on delivering the core conflict in the best possible manner without too many distractions.
For example in FMA i couldnt care less about the world itself but the characters are etched into my mind while in Naruto made me care about the world itself while i for the life of me can't remember every character except the actually important ones.