Highly confusing and disappointing

The second movie left me quite excited for the final part and I sat down happily with my tablet in my hand when it finally came out today. I wish I hadn't expected so much from it!
Throughout the whole movie I couldn't stop thinking about how much I don't understand the story and how pathetically confused I am. It felt as if someone took the interesting parts of the story (and a bunch of incredibly talented actors like Ryosuke, Mackenyu and Keisuke), left the 'boring' scenes out and made a trilogy matching their personal taste. I'm certain that viewers weren't imparted numerous important information which would have been cruical in order to understand the story. I was utterly disappointed because no matter how hard I tried to puzzle out what was going on, I ultimately failed on multiple occasions. I got into a huge maze in the first movie and it got more and more complicated the more time I spent watching the trilogy.
I also must say a few words about the must-romantic interests. Action movies and thrillers would happily survive without these forced cringe romantic elements that make my skin crawl, to be frank. In my eyes, Winry was an absolutely useless and incredibly annoying character, she shouldn't have been given another role than being the one working on Ed's artificial limbs. It simply felt forced from Ed's side, the romantic feelings. As if they just had to exist because the writers thought love must be in the air. It was completely unnecessary and it very much ruined the movie experience. The other romantic couples should have stayed in the friend zone too, if they couldn't make it look and feel natural.
And one last thing I can't leave unspoken is Envy and Greed's death, they had much more potential, I was hoping to see more of them. The Homunculi became too easy to kill by the end of the last movie, I must say.
To sum it up, it's an entertaining movie trilogy but I doubt I could ever sit down again to watch it, maybe the second movie... too bad we didn't get to see Alphonse in his human body in an extra scene in the end, I would have appreciated it, haha.

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Great original idea, cliché overly shy male lead and creepy side character

I wanted to wait until I finish the whole series but I couldn't take it any longer and stopped in the middle of the 8th episode to write this review.

The idea which the story is based on is interesting and absolutely original as it is the case with most Japanese dramas. It gets slightly boring later on and I can't blame anything else than the poorly written, cliché characters. I'm mainly referring to Adachi here but Kurosawa felt kinda off during some scenes, too. It's very upsetting to see a good idea getting wasted like this, it had so much potential. The creators decided to leave out important information and ignore the fact that some scenes, interactions and feelings will come across as annoyingly random. (For example both Adachi and Kurosawa's sexual awakening, they totally skip this as in most BL, sadly.)

And now I'll tell the main reason I decided to write this review so abruptly: it's the one and only Tsuge. I must say beforehand that I have very little triggers and I'm usually not bothered at all by
"unhealthy" or at least not natural relationships (I'm a huge fan of Killing Stalking and I love Sangwoo and Yoonbum together, I think that says it all), but this guy made me feel so uncomfortable which I haven't felt in a long time. He is the typical middle-aged creepy loser with no friends and no life, so definitely not someone appealing in the eyes of a cool teenager. Since this is a romance BL series, I assume Minato will fall for him regardless (probably because Tsuge is the first one who believes him and encourages him to follow his dreams... strong daddy issues vibes so this is not love, sorry) and it ruins the whole drama for me so much that I would even call it unwatchable. And the fact that nor Adachi nor Kurosawa tells the dude the truth that he is an unfashionable creepy old guy and they even encourage him is even more upsetting. The drama basically implies that it's completely alright to prey on young boys if you are a 30 years old boring virgin. Like please, if you want to write a story about something that's not really right morally and socially, at least make it unrealistically appealing and hot instead of weirding viewers out by showing how a real p*d*phile looks like.

Despite the above mentioned (huge) negative point, the series is nice and it's worth watching once for sure, I wouldn't call it a waste of time. Plus point for featuring Yuutaro, I love him, and it was also a refreshing surprise to recognise Karube from Alice in Borderland (Keita Machida), I would have never thought he would play in a BL series.

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