Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

[masamuneehs]

the scene with mustang, ed, and al all in the single room with Bradley was my favorite part of this episode. i prefer the complete quick, zero frills dishing of the situation that goes on instead of episodes dragging it out and mulling it over.

knox is the one character i can not put my finger on, but there's something duelisticly revolting/endearing about him that you don't often get in anime characters. i loved the scenes he was in in this episode.

Wrath and Greed. two men who had philosopher's stones put into them and then became Homunculi. every thing about them suggests a Mirror Mirror Opposite Twin Enemy relationship. one never asked to be king, the other wants it. one fights for himself, the other for his people. you think BRADLEY isn't in there just as much as LING is? man, i dunno. they both have End Game Vader Anakin vibe to me. Greed gave Ed and Al Ling's message.　　Bradley eyed up Al for FOREVER before he missed (intentionally) May by just a fraction of a centimeter. These guys are both too human. They don't go about stuff the way Envy and Gluttony do (no clue about Lust, of course).

Anyone else find it really annoying that they are playing important pieces of the storyline AFTER the ending credits now?

dude. thank you a ton for pointing it out to me that they're doing it with this show now. and for the record, yes. me too.

and

Scar is the fucking man. Osama Norris McCool. that was his original Ishbal name he mentioned he once had.

i have my hat on fireheart's theory from ep 28 thread, that Hoenheim created/gave Eastern Alchemy, that Scar (via his bro) and May can use, but Ed and Al can't when Father doesn't want them to, because they're using HIS alchemy (Envy did just about say it that way). of course, the one baffling question is HOW THE HELL Father and Hoenheim went about creating two sets of alchemy for other people to use. after all, Father seems interested in just finding super alchemists, so why the hell can't he create one?

naturally, ed and al, being the sons of Hoenheim, the Sage from the West, but users of Father's alchemy (Sage of the East), AND being shounen main leads, have Dragonball Fusion ending written all over them. but the way this series has executed so far, even that sounds like it might end up being totally badass and awesome to watch.

[masamuneehs]

I wonder what this is like for the Manga Artist. He knows how many episodes in the anime are left, has an idea how many chapters remain in the manga.

If the mangaka is any sort of a serious author, he knows precisely how and when his story will end.

If I was the mangaka, I wouldn't care or feel pressured by the anime. He's the author of the manga, and it's what he'll be remembered for.

i, for one, hope that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromu_Arakawa will be remembered for being female, though SHE seems pretty set on the image of a cow wearing glasses.

[animus]

Was just gonna type that. Surprised so few knew the mangaka was female (though this is a shounen, so can't be blamed).

[Archangel]

Wow... she really is a one hit wonder isn't she?

[Kraco]

I blame the English language. In my native Finnish there are no separate third-person personal pronouns for female and male.

Anyway, it's actually nice to know the mangaka's a woman. It might explain a few things, especially if something actually ends up happening between Ed and Winry. Unless a female shounen mangaka feels special responsibility to not introduce anything extra into a shounen story.

[Nai]

Baby Gluttony was the cutest thing ever. Such a dawww moment.

[EpyonNext]

Anyone else find it really annoying that they are playing important pieces of the storyline AFTER the ending credits now?

I just skip the credits. It annoyed me when DTB did it, but I got used to it.

[enkoujin]

[Penner]

Hah, best part of the episode ^_^

[Xyrox]

Doesn't anyone find it strange that Wrath remembers anything from before he became a Homunculus? In Greed's case, it's obvious that he knows that he's in Ling's body, and that Ling tries to take over from time to time.

If I remember correctly, King Bradley has said that he didn't know if his body/soul(?) belonged to someone else originally. Even if Wrath got the human "King Bradley"'s memories, he should still know that he's Wrath, no? This seems to suggest that Wrath/Bradley and Greed/Ling are different types of Homunculi.

[EpyonNext]

That would be the "Should I shred the mother fucker to ribbons right now or is he just joking" look.

[masamuneehs]

i can not stop laughing every time i see this image again

If I remember correctly, King Bradley has said that he didn't know if his body/soul(?) belonged to someone else originally. Even if Wrath got the human "King Bradley"'s memories, he should still know that he's Wrath, no? This seems to suggest that Wrath/Bradley and Greed/Ling are different types of Homunculi.

they are different. they're created Homunculi by Father, but simply manifested in a human's body. instead of trying to create a faux human, he's just dumping a shit load of his own whatever the fuck he is to him. Ling is staying alive and active inside of Greed, and I agree with you 100% on Wrathley being more human than the other Homunculi.

[Xyrox]

they are different. they're created Homunculi by Father, but simply manifested in a human's body. instead of trying to create a faux human, he's just dumping a shit load of his own whatever the fuck he is to him. Ling is staying alive and active inside of Greed, and I agree with you 100% on Wrathley being more human than the other Homunculi.

I know that they're different from the other Homunculi. What I meant was that even Wrath and Greed are different, since Wrath still has his human memories (don't know if it's the same for Greed) and doesn't know if his body belonged to someone else originally.

[masamuneehs]

I know that they're different from the other Homunculi. What I meant was that even Wrath and Greed are different, since Wrath still has his human memories (don't know if it's the same for Greed) and doesn't know if his body belonged to someone else originally.

i dont quite follow you. first, i would say it's a fair bet that Greed has his 'human memories', which would be Ling's, since he's in that body. Bradley sat and told Mustang about the time before he got the Philosopher's Stone put into his body, so he has those memories too. The question for me was something like, can those memories really be said to belong to Wrath, since he states he does not know what happened to the soul those memories belong to?

I also am not sure what we're talking about with 'human memories'. It seems Father created the new Greed without any of the old Greed's memories. but we don't know if when he made Wrath if he put the memories from the prior Wrath (assuming there was one) into Bradley's body.

[Xyrox]

i dont quite follow you.

Nah, I'm just confused whether Bradley identifies himself as the human who they did experiments on, or as the Homunculus Wrath. In Greed's case it seems to be the latter - he's Greed that happens to be Ling's body.

[Buffalobiian]

Eclipse - Episode 30 SD | HD

READ: Scenes come after the ED again.

[masamuneehs]

the deep flashback episode, and i did enjoy most of it, even if there was quite a bit of overlap with earlier episodes. the scene where they make the Stone from Ishbalites was absolutely terrificly horrifying. i was really glad with that.

this episode marked a return for one of my favorite characters, and although he had good screen time, i wasn't quite in love with the music they chose for his "don't look away. don't forget them. the dead will not forget you." speech. Still, Kimblee = Joy.

Freaking tattooing important things to peoples' backs... jesus. As if Hawkeye needed another reason to be insanely hot...

[NeoCybercoin]

I find it interesting that the tattoo on her back is scarred/burned. Also that it has the symbol of the flame on her it. I think that the tattoo on her back is like..the ultimate flame alchemy or something. And that Roy himself burned a part of that away because he learned of it. I dunno...makes sense to me.

I still pity Armstrong in this flashback. He is just too kind for the war.

[Ryllharu]

I thought it was something more like she was injured during the conflict, and now the complete information is lost. Roy will probably have to recreate it if he wants to use the ultimate flame alchemy, and he'll probably need it to kill off the Homunculus or some other external threat.

Yeah, poor Armstrong, made me feel really bad.

I found it interesting that Kimbley was actually somewhat sensible before, and he was driven mad with the power the stone provided him. His philosophy wasn't exactly the moral high ground, but he wasn't wrong. He looked very controlled, like he was keeping sane by not being horrified by it and not enjoying it. Simply performing his duty. Afterwards, we see how changed he was by using the stone.

[Carnage]

I found it interesting that Kimbley was actually somewhat sensible before

Don't think so, Tim.