Anime advice

[Grandpa Gohan]

A don't watch a lot of anime, but of all I've seen FMA is my favourite, hands down. A plot and characters that grab you, mixed with a good helping of action and humour. With Naruto and Bleach (allegedly - I haven't watched the latter) you have to deal with filler and episodes that are drawn out in order to fill the 20 minute mark. FMA was adapted from the manga, but they took the story in a completely different direction. It's actually one of the cases where I think the anime had a better story.

I'm a large fan of the Naruto manga, though, and I'm considering starting reading/watching Bleach.

Bleach does have filler eps - its 'only' 35~40 eps though. I personally didn't mind them at all. With Bleach, in the anime even the filler characters become canon(they become background characters).