Might I say Fullmetal Alchemist has one of the most innovative stories I know. Anyway, apart from the little cliché squabble do you guys really think that NH/SS fans will definitely freak over the whole confession thing again? Like for people who just watch the anime. Ugh, there bashing all over again. If anything I hope that the animators don't make it look bad.
FMA characters fit typical shonen character types more closely than Naruto does. (It's too judgmental to call them cliches, when they are merely types that all writers use but put their own spin on them)
FMA relies very heavily on Renaissance Judo-Christian theology. Things you would learn in a college course in Japan or the west. Not that it's not well done, but the characters are more limited in depth and don't stray as far from type than Kishimoto's, plus you have the standard level of female character fan service too in FMA. With basically none for the male characters other than the parody level with Armstrong.
Kishimoto takes the foundation of the types and uses it as a spring board to go in an innovative direction He does surprisingly little fan service of female characters for a shonen manga and does just as much, if not more fan service of male characters-think of how many times we've seen Naruto or Sasuke shirtless vs how many times we've seen Sakura (once- and even then Kishimoto only showed the very top of her breasts- at the hot springs in part 2)
But what really takes Naruto to that top level along with Riyoko Ikeda's
Rose of Versailles and Keiji Nakazawa's "I Saw it" and
Barefoot Gen is how the concepts explored and questions asked become even more powerful than the characters- it actually ends up adding even more depth to the characters. I can see an attempt at this in FMA but it doesn't quite get to that level. I think it's because the writer tried consciously to do it, rather than with Nakazawa, Ikeda and Kishimoto's works where this happened just in the course of the story- the writer gets swept up by the concepts and the characters do too. The same thing happened with MASH, it begins as a satiric commentary on war and retains this throughout, but in the 8th season with the episode "Dreams" things shift and the concept of how the horrors of war psychologically damage those who serve- even in MASH units, becomes the strongest element in the show, turning the show into a real classic, not just in a popularity sense but in a near literary sense.
Dream you dream alone is only a dream, but dream we dream together is reality- Yoko Ono 1971
When you go to war, both sides lose totally- Yoko Ono
Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison- Yoko Ono 2009
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