was not the chapter i had been hoping for. i enjoyed Bradley, as I always do, and it's always refreshing when the good guy cavalry arrival is tempered by a bad guy reinforcement.
i did think it was fairly lame that the chimera crew got into such a big spot, and that the whole chapter seemed to whizz right by the fact that Hawkeye was freaking dying in front of Mustang's eyes. you would have thought this would be the perfect time to do a deep flashback, or at least play with the reader's emotions a bit... but that didnt happen at all. it was, however, perfectly fitting for Hawkeye and Roy to act like that.
we had more emotional content on the part of the Briggs soldiers learning about Buccaneer's death than we had about Mustang and Hawkeye facing this crisis...
will probably be some nice action when it gets animated. but i'm hoping the next chapter is an improvement on this
Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
Granted, Buccaneer actually died. Hawkeye was wounded but she'll live.Originally Posted by masamuneehs
Recently re-read the manga to get me up to speed with the newest chapters (I'd essentially forgotten 90% of what had happened) and it's awesome. I watched some of the new anime too but... eh... I guess anime isn't my thing anymore, I don't have the patience to sit through a 30 minute episode when I could just read the same chapter in 5-10 minutes.
That's pretty sad; to get so close, then just lose his body.
all about manga chapter 102
oh. my. god.
aside from the "fuck, Mustang is BLIND" twist, the highlight of this chapter for me were the two Homunculi. Wrath, seemingly facing the end, is still just as boastful and badass as ever (it is looking slimmer and slimmer that my Anakin Bradley theory will play out. but i do enjoy being wrong some times!). Pride had to have the most golden villain reaction I have ever seen to a hero's misfortune, with his "Have you gone blind? Splendid!" fucking cold
and Bradley, finally showing respect to someone in his last hour? I like how they brought back the name issue.
i can only assume the "assimilated" alchemist Wrath said that Pride assimilated was Kimblee? Was he really up on par with the Elrics? (for that matter, I'd never really considered Mustang or Kimblee on that level...) seems to me that the Homunculi should have just been assimilating alchemists starting a long time back... no need to keep all these meddlesome people alive...
of course, this isn't about the Homunculi. it's about Ed and Al. And, man, Al really did make a noble move, returning to the battle in the best condition he could help in, even though he has been trying to get his body back for so long... but, damn. those last words from the body were CREEPY (not to mention those eyes!). i mean, seriously, has the body sorta gone mad? when it was referring to Al's return bringing nothing but ruin and despair, was he talking about the soul returning one day for the body? or just returning to the real world? (how the hell would he even know what is going on in the real world? though i suppose the nature of the gate and the truth could explain that...) either way, the way he addressed the soul as "Alphonse" seems to suggest that the body has taken on some kind of new identity.
all in all, a very bad chapter for our heroes. I LOVED IT!!!
Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
Probably not Kimblee, but the old doctor that he just encapsulated in his shadow.
Poor Mustang, having to be forced through the gate and made to sacrifice something when he didn't even want for anything.
Also, Alphonse's body, or the conscience in it, seems to hint that Al definitely blew his last chance to reclaim himself without any form of horrible repercussion.
KIMOCHI~II
There was something unsettling about Al's body responding. I took it like it knew something and didn't seem to be "his" but more of another type of puppet.
Also the whole wrapping up how each lost part of their body in relation to their goal, I never thought of it like that.
I thought Roy was the one who had been "assimilated"?
i am still majorly confused about the whole thing with Pride, Roy, the doctor, and Kimblee.
Wrath explicitly referred to the doctor as "materials", and his body was the leftovers of the transmutation that sent Roy to the gate... but... again, I have to think that the assimilated alchemist has to be Kimblee.
but that still doesnt make any sense! how the fuck does Pride assimilating Kimblee give him the ability to MAKE Roy open the Gate? I thought a highly skilled alchemist had to perform a type of alchemy that went beyond equivalent exchange in order for them to arrive at the Gate? (after all, Marcoh has never been to the Gate, and the dude made Philosopher's Stones). did Pride grab Mustang and have him activate the array that Pride had drawn on the floor? that still doesn't seem to make sense...
i smell plot hole
and, yeah, i agree wit Prof Chaos. It felt way too strange that Al's body responded the way it did, as if it knows what is going to happen... and bag said it too, but how could the body know all this? (and what in the world is going on with Al's mind? it seems like there are two now, one with the boy, one with the soul... that cannot be good for when they merge again...)
also, the shot with Al's body standing in front of the Gate.... I mentioned once in an anime discussion thread about the designs on the Gates. Particularly the scene where Ed meets Al's body. The design on the Gate that Ed has come through (and returns through) has the Kabbalistic Tree of Life on it, and the very prominent bottom part is the creation of God. However, the design on the Gate that Al's body is sitting outside of is quite different. It almost seems to be a reversed image of the Tree.
page 40 of this chapter, Al's body's final, foreboding words as the Gate closes. I can make out a few words. Leo, Mercurius, and what look like ---gentum, li--, and rubeus?
What I CAN see is Al's body standing in the divide between the clearly marked Corpus and Spiritus. The positioning screams trouble, accenting the divide between the body and spirit.... certainly not a good omen...
Ed's tree has Malkuth on the bottom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephirot
I cannot find anything that looks like the image on Al's Gate
Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
al's door was something from a alchemist (or chemist O.o?) from the 15th century...
you are talking about ed's and al's door, what about roy's?
back to the transmutation "roy" performed, all the alchemists need to touch the transmutation circle, and this one had even roy's blood, pride activated it while roy "made" the transmutation. we didnt even got to see what he transmutated...
by the way there is no way to make perform a transmutation beyond the equivalent trade unless you have a philosopher stone which is raw power, spirits or w/e, that gets used and thus making it somewhat equivalent again.
human transmutation seems to be the way to open the gate, in the two transmutations we saw there was a "body" container, and the one to open the gate used his own blood to get the body a soul/information as edward said before transmuting his mother.
then the truth got a piece from each alchemist in equivalent trade for information inside the gate/truth
on another note. i think most likely that the truth is inside al's body, he is the truth, he knows everything thats going on, and maybe everything thats going to happen?
Yeah, this latest chapter pretty much blew my mind.
Nothing else to note.
So Bradley's probably fucked now, huh? Finally. Go Scar, go!
Yeah, Scar's arm threw me off. Now, are we supposed to be under the impression he's always had this arm, or was this a result of reading his brother's notes or something? Only releasing once a month, and with an entire other continuity, makes it hard to remember things.
Thanks guys for talking about it and not linking a place to get it from.
FMA 103 at OneManga
Things should be wrapping up soon.
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i understand that Mei is a child, and it was absolutely badass that she wanted to take on Father all by herself (and what the hell is wrong for Ed and Al even letting her try?). but the girl was there when Scar fought Father, so, unless I am forgetting something, wouldn't she have already known that Father can attack without moving?
The fight with Scar and Wrath is going to be fucking epic when it gets animated. Wrath manuvering Scar to slip on the blood, grabbing the broken piece of blade, and Scar using his trump card at the last possible moment. Bradley's face is pricelesss.
But, hell, it is ridiculously shounenesque, that Scar would just be sitting on his ability to use full alchemy for so long. When the hell did he even do the tattoo?
I've always said, "Scar is going to be the redeemed one" He's awesome, powerful, but he's just done too much to make it all the way to the end. The blow he took from Bradley looked pretty nasty, but, hell, nobody's been beat up as much as Scar. I think we get an explanation (and flashback) about how he did the tattoo, then he kills Wrath while getting mortally wounded himself. (funny thing is, I was also absolutely certain, for a very long time, that Bradley would end up pulling a Vader at the end of all this. i can't see that happening now, not with this matchup)
Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
Did that just happen? Wow...
No, it can't be. That's impossible. About the only thing I can see happening is that with the Xing transmutation circle, if it was completed, only borrowed everyone's soul and didn't destroy it.
Yeah, there ain't a whole lot I can say other than "wow" myself.
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