>>1508
FMA:B is the Shawshank Redemption of anime. It's consistently GOOD, not necessarily exceptional in any way, and largely inoffensive; safe even. It's easy for most people with a surface level understanding of the medium to look at it and say that it deserves recognition as being up there as one of the best, but that doesn't mean it really is. If you did a ranked vote of people's top 50 anime, it might win out overall by being the most frequently mentioned, but I doubt that today it would appear at the top of a majority of people's lists.
Now, what I want to know is what would the Citizen Kane of anime be? (revolutionary for the time, a widely accepted but boring answer, popular with critics and ordinary people, more than likely not the single greatest film ever made but it's good enough so who cares?)