There's a pretty simple reason why FMA (and for that matter Death Note) tend to make it higher ranked than other shonen: they're fairly fast-paced and they have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Some of the long-running shonen shows that tend to dominate fandom discussion may have high highs...
halfway down the series by now, and still have no idea who the Red Emperor's Army is. It seems like the old guy in episode 5 has made hunting Kuromitsu for quite a while now.. a thousand years? looks like we have another immortal here?
Episode 6~ OMG Horo got huge teeth rawr ! that's scary when she turns into a wolf.
Anyway, isn't Horo getting cuter and cuter everytime we see her
Her eyes is really attractive and she really got me into it XD.
i realize radiohead werent the first to do this, they were just a good recent example that received a fair amount of mainstream media attention. obviously filesharing will never die, and whose to say thats necessarily a bad thing. most of artists revenue comes from gig and merch sales anyway...