Fullmetal Alchemist Is Back

I got all annoyed whilst searching YouTube for Fullmetal Alchemist AMVs. See, my favorite manga/anime also happens to be one of, if not the, favorite manga/anime of every person with horrible taste in music. Every time I look for FMA AMVs, I come up with dozens, maybe even hundreds, of clips involving metal bands that clearly failed remedial spelling (replacing a C with a K does not make you cool or clever, except maybe if you're a cat because cats can't spell).

(To my hipster friends: you might think this point of reference is incredibly dated, but if you listen to KROQ, than you know that, ten years after the fact, it is still a very real thing.)

Okay, back to the point, I was getting all angsty about the dearth of FMA AMVs that I could stomach when I came across the clip posted at the top of this entry. It may be two years old, but it's new to me and incredibly fun. AMV creator xShigurex matched up the Elric brothers and friends with "Un Lapin," a super-cute number from ye-ye girl turned children's music artist Chantal Goya (she starred in Godard's film Masculin Feminin). Then she drew the series' characters chibi style and mixed in some actual FMA footage.

All this is to say that Fullmetal Alchemist is coming back for a third season. The good people at The Anime Blog posted a teaser and, although I can't understand a lick of Japanese, it looks like it's going to be something special.

Related: "The Anime Collective: Baka Deshi Productions"