Milan Records releases music from the hugely popular anime franchise Fullmetal Alchemist for the first time ever outside of Japan. Available everywhere now are 11 original soundtracks, including music from both the original Fullmetal Alchemist television series and the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood series, as well as soundtracks from the franchise’s two feature-length films, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa and Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos...

For those Fullmetal Alchemist fans that love the original songs that formed the intro and outro for each episode, this album delivers another 22 original songs. It's been a long time since I watched the original series and I honestly can't remember if these songs appeared in the series, or if they are of the "songs inspired by..." variety.

There's little here that I'd really want to listen to that often but, again, if you're a hardcore fan of the show this is an album that you'll want to add to your collection.

Personally, I found it to be a bizarre collection of oddities and novelty songs... but I'm glad that the studio has finally released this for the fans outside of Japan.

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Darren Rea