7 anime · avg brightness 0.413 · bright opening

2003 is the year Full Metal Alchemist begins its first run — and with it, the establishment of the adventure-fantasy visual language that would dominate the decade. Warm ambers, cool action blues, the palette of alchemical transformation. The bright-opening pattern is the industry learning to hook audiences in the streaming-before-streaming era, when physical media made every first impression permanent.