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Originally Posted by hyl
You have been hanging around way too much at tv tropes seeing your own initial examples are the same found there.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...Deconstruction
As for deconstructing FMA, all of your previous examples are tied to it's main theme of equivelant trade: "Nothing is free. To get something, you have to pay/sacrifice something of equal value." Which in itself is a life lesson.
This theme (and life lessons in general) is more common in media that are meant for a more adult audience found in seinen or josei mangas.
That's why i mentioned earlier that it's just a shounen manga with a little bits of seinen flavor. |
Well it's true all of those examples are from that list, but I have seen all of those anime and it's a great list. There are definitely ones that I have thought of after reading that list that would also count as deconstructions, which I only thought of after (
Gunslinger Girl ,
BOTI,
D. Gray-man,
Jiraishin, ) but when I read that list on TV Tropes and saw that most of my favorite anime were on that list (Narutaru, Bokurano, My-Hime, Toradora, and Digimon Tamers) it was kind of a revelation. It made me think, hmmm, maybe I really like anime with deconstruction themes.
Anyways, a lot of my FMA examples are not about equivalent exchange. Hawkeye and Havoc couldn't even use alchemy.
Equivalent exchange is not the same as power makes you weak.