Hmm... Many people have been a little paranoid about FUNimation's license on Full Metal Alchemist, but looking at their trailer on their website, it doesn't seem that bad. I've seen around 4 episodes of this series, and have read 2 volumes of the manga, and I guess I'm just not attached enough to this series. Alphonse's English voice actor doesn't seem that bad. Apprently Cartoon Network will keep the Japanese Opening too...

EDIT 20:37: Actually, I thought the dub Al and the translation for the beginning was quite like the Japanese Al and the subtitles...

And I quote Pan-chan of lelola.net:
"The other day, I was speaking to a friend of mine about how anime used to be marketed in comparison to how it is marketed now. A few years ago, anime had to be disguised to be sold to an American audience. Unless you already knew, the casual viewer would have no clue the show came from Japan.

It's only very recently, over the past few years, that anime has gotten the following it needs to be marketed as anime itself. This has given many of the companies leeway on how they can market it. It is now possible for them to market anime as anime.

This doesn't mean that there still isn't a need to "Americanize" anime, especially for mainstream audiences, but the need has diminished over the last few years. The fact that the general public has problems accepting anything foreign is a reflection of much deeper societal problems that deserve a book or two of their own."

I hope that her words are true.