Emotional Detachment Issues
2 July 2007
I think I have problems. It’s been at least a year since I watched FullMetal Alchemist and the Movie. Just today, I’m browsing through someone’s blog I came upon and saw their post about the movie. I had the urge to pull out my disc and watch it again and then I suddenly had this strange feeling of loss, like my best friend is moving away or at my middle school graduation or something like that. Like it’s unbearable to watch it again. I loved FMA, I swear to all the heavenly powers that be, I loved FMA. It made me have faith in anime and fandom again, it bought joy to a totally dismal school year, reunited me with my best friend and showed that Chinatown was not just a tourist attraction. And when it ended, when the last ending credits rolled away, when it was all over, I swore I wanted to cry (I think I did.)
Yeah, I’m that weird. I can’t handle the end of movies and anime. Books are a different story, the end of books are fine, I enjoy the end of a book. The nice, neat sound when you close a hardcover book and the satisfaction to the end of words. But anime, I can’t, I can’t. Thank God the manga is still going on. Speaking of which, ZOMGFTA site was down recently. Gotta check for Chapter 72!
But really, I think I’m over my “I need to weep” bit. It’s just so strange, such a strange longing that accompanies the end of a series. Any series that I truly enjoyed, I felt this awkward sadness when it was over. Ehh, oh well. Time to read Chapter 72! If they have it!