Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

[masamuneehs]

i greatly enjoyed this episode, even if the "we take over one of your friends and make you fight the body" bad guy move is one of the most overused.

the highlight for me was Grumman. not only did he show a great amount of surprisingly vicious ambition, but all his logic is rock solid (and you know he has to have a hunch about how everything is still working in the military even though Bradley is gone). I also love any guy who says "I need to see the body".

Heinkel and Darius really made this fight. Then Lin had a good entry, and, of course, Lan Fan comes to the rescue (so where's the old ninja?). Made me chuckle when Ed cried "I'm just a normal guy!" because he really is the least special of the entire group when it comes to something like this. guess it goes to show that people are totally useless when they're blind.

also, well, dudes, we don't really know Lan Fan's past, but she was definitely trained from a young age and, yeah, she's had to learn to fight with only one arm, not minus an arm and a leg, AND she's significantly older than Ed was when he got his automail. also, with The Eclipse nigh, there's not like we could get a Bleach training arc out of her...

what the fuck is hoenheim doing? get involved, dude!

[DarthEnderX]

Heh, just when I was wondering whether she'd come back or not, she comes back in style. What's really impressive is how proficient she is with the arm in such a short time. Ed took a several months or maybe even a year. I guess Lan Fan was even more determined considering how much her honor and pride was hurt for failing to effectively protect Lin against Bradley and later being forced to leave his side. She must have gotten the arm and then rested only when she was too exhausted to stand while learning to use it.

Also to keep in mind is that Ed was just a kid when he got his automail and Lan Fan is a freaking NINJA!

[Kraco]

I'd like to note here that a kid would learn much faster to adapt to an automail than an adult that has been using a real arm for all her life already.

Still, aside from becoming a clockmaker, an arm won't slow one down quite as badly as a leg. Lan Fan can still run just as well as before. The only difference now are finer tricks that rely on hands, but slicing somebody isn't such a fine trick. She really didn't have that much to adapt to.

[DarthEnderX]

I'd like to note here that a kid would learn much faster to adapt to an automail than an adult that has been using a real arm for all her life already.

Still, aside from becoming a clockmaker, an arm won't slow one down quite as badly as a leg. Lan Fan can still run just as well as before. The only difference now are finer tricks that rely on hands, but slicing somebody isn't such a fine trick. She really didn't have that much to adapt to.

I'm sorry, I still say the biggest contributing factors are the fact that Ed's job was effectively "scientist" and Lan Fans job is "freaking NINJA!".

[Marik]

[Eclipse] Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood - 48 - HD | SD

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There's 2m:30s of extra footage after the ED theme. 21:25 - 23:55

[Sam98034]

What happend to gluttony was pure irony.

[Buffalobiian]

I was already feeling sorry for Gluttony when he was being diced up by the Xing. He's creepy and demonic at times, but otherwise he thinks like an innocent kid. Pride tearing him apart was brutal.

Ed's carbon trick was neat, though when you have so many "tentacles" at your disposal, it's hard to imagine Pride couldn't even scratch him. I guess they're still playing on the fact that Ed's got lightning speed with that Northern automail.

Likewise with Lion King. You'd think with all that talk about animal instincts, he'd know to bite off the throat/head once you've pounced your prey. They never showed Selim being cut neither, which suggests that the durability of his shadows also applies to his main body. If that's the case though, then it makes no sense for him to "die", unless you count multiple instances of spinal injury and brain slosh as death.

[Prof. Chaos]

Poor Gluttony. We never did get to see Lust come back and he was always lost without her. Though Pride was a real monster, cannibalizing him like that.

[Kraco]

It didn't surprise me in the least. Actually I'm somewhat surprised how aghast the good guys were because of it. They are homunculus, not human, after all, free of emotions save one rather negative aspect. Keeping that in mind they actually behave in a most civilized manner.

Interesting episodes. I consistently hated the homunculus fights in the old series but in this one they couldn't be more intriguing.

[Sapphire]

HD | SD

[Sapphire]

Oh yeah, I forgot about the whole general thing.

[Marik]

[Eclipse] Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood - 49 - HD | SD

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Don't miss the stuff after the ED theme, starting at 21:59.

[RyougaZell]

[Eclipse] Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood - 49 - HD | SD

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Don't miss the stuff after the ED theme, starting at 21:59.

I heard there was another disaster warning through the episode. Its that correct? if so Im willing to wait for a clean version.

[Marik]

I heard there was another disaster warning through the episode. Its that correct? if so Im willing to wait for a clean version.

That was on the TBS broadcast. Eclipse used a raw from the MBS broadcast, which is clean.

[RyougaZell]

Ah, I see. Thanks.
Tokyo Tosho's message is misleading. I thought they didn't use a clean one. I'll download it then.

[itadakimasu]

Awesome!

Thanks for posting early. So... 50, or 52 episodes? Stuff's about to go down!

[Buffalobiian]

Awesome!

Thanks for posting early. So... 50, or 52 episodes? Stuff's about to go down!

A couple of threads back, someone said 63.


I'm not sure which is more correct, if a distinction needs to be made. "Al is giving his all", or "Al is doing nothing".

Pride reverting to playing like a kid with a stick and helmet was funny. I wonder if they're foreshadowing him saving Madam Bradley.

[Kraco]

It was a decent way to deal with Pride. Not really a final method but for their immediate objectives perfect - so far. Of course it means Al won't be doing much for the time being but we have so many people on the stage already that this war will hardly miss one walking and talking tin suit.

Hohenheim doesn't seem like much of a fighter. He looked quite reluctant to enter the battle field (though I have no doubt he wanted to save Ed) and ended up using Al's somewhat self-sacrificing plan, no less. I wonder what he has been doing all the centuries.

[ForteCross]

once again... we still have 17 more chapters from the manga to cover... and the manga isnt over yet... i would say that 63 episodes can easily complete the manga itself

[masamuneehs]

The scene with Pride talking to Al about Mrs. Bradley is my favorite in the episode. "I've always had a father, but I never had a mother." And, yes, the only occasionally distracted fixation on the helmet.

i know it all looks well and planned out, but there's still way too much up in the air. Kimblee just took down a bunch of Isbalites who looked like they were getting ready to help out. Greed seems to have his own agenda. Envy is not gone. We still have no body for Wrath, Pride is only disabled, and Sloth (and freaking Father) right in Central HQ.

Grumman, Armstrong/Miles and Mustang don't seem to be a coordinated team, let alone have any contact with the extremely valuable alchemists/Scar's faction.

Hoenheim did not fight, but the man did perform a massive, flawless transmutation without any movement at all.

it's amazing how good this anime adaptation is turning out.