I’ve seen all of it. It’s all objectively bad.
Are you joking, or did you just not enjoy them because of overhype or cultural differences?
I too have seen all of them. I didn’t enjoy them, but not because they were overhyped or cultural differences. As a matter of fact, I wish American culture was more like Japanese culture as I wish it was socially acceptable to watch cartoon schoolgirls get molested by tentacles. I also like stuff that is overhyped because I like to be a contrarian to contrarians. So that wasn’t the problem.
No, I just didn’t think it was clear enough when anime characters were expressing emotions. I found the whole thing far too subtle and found it difficult to understand character motivations. It needed more ridiculously exaggerated character animation and more characters screaming things obnoxiously that no human would ever say. Plus, the acting wasn’t nearly bad enough for my tastes.
If you haven’t seen it, the Fullmetal Alchemist reboot may be exactly like what you are looking for. The story includes a new form of alchemy, and shows the Elrics’ adventures with goofy people from the China-parallel country of Xing and the terrifying hardened battle-machines from Fort Briggs.
If you have seen it, can everybody who has just agree how much more sense it makes? The 2003 series’ Wrath is CONVOLUTED AS HELL (SPOILERS Oh, look! It’s a kid who was a failed human transmutation who is actually successful and was sacrificed to the Gate of Truth in a ritual that required sacrifice to make him in the first place and turned him into a weird black baby who took Edward Elric’s limbs to live in our world in an island for years until the Elrics’ found him, and yadayadada END SPOILERS), and the twists at the end are just too much for my brain to process (Parallel worlds? Nazis? Couldn’t Ed just kill himself to return back to Amestris? This doesn’t count as spoilers because knowing the twist before is better than going in blind).