With the wide­spread suc­cess of Full­metal Alchemist, its man­gaka Hiromu Arakawa seems to be seek­ing to broaden the fan­dom by fur­ther increas­ing its appeal to fringe sup­port­ers of the FMA fran­chise — prob­a­bly aim­ing mostly at those fans who nor­mally do not read or watch Shounen but were nev­er­the­less caught up by the intrigue of the Full­metal universe.

Both the two new spin­off series announced will be joint col­lab­o­ra­tion projects: the par­ody 4koma Full­metal Otaku, writ­ten in con­junc­tion with Tat­suhiko Taki­moto (Wel­come to the NHK) and illus­trated by Arakawa her­self; as well as the political/military drama light novel The Flame of Amestris, which will be co-authored by Hiroyuki Morioka (Crest/Banner of the Stars).

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Episode 2 con­firmed my ini­tial thoughts. At the rate they’re going, Baka to Test to Shokanju is going to out­right win for me as the best anime of Win­ter 2009; even with how much I’m look­ing for­ward to Nodame Cantabile.

I mean seri­ously, it’s got just about every­thing, and it does it with high qual­ity style:

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This is what I wished Sora no Woto is actu­ally about: Cagayake Inno­va­tor Girls

Although maybe K-ON Macross might be more fit­ting, espe­cially given Basara of Macross 7. Either way, I luled too hard at this not to share this, and yes, I’d so watch this.

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