So I heard about Maria Lin’s harsh criticism of Full Metal Alchemist on Matthew’s shoutbox, and I figured I’d take a moment to address her arguments. First off, I want to say that I consider Full Metal Alchemist to be a very very good anime series, although not necessarily the best I’ve ever seen. [...]
After a rollercoast of a ride through 50 episodes, Full Metal Alchemist finally draws to a close! Things didn’t look too hot at first for our various heros. Envy impaled Ed through his arm, Al was slowly becoming chow for Gluttony to gobble up, and the Fuhrer continued to make sushi out of [...]
FMA fans finally get the reason why Ed and Hohenheim find themselves in London in a “normal” world. Apparently, according to Hohenheim, the great “Gate” is the passage between the Alchemy world and the “normal” world as we view it, and energy is constantly being passed from world to world to balance things out. [...]
After all the homunculi battles, the series finally slows down a bit as Ed finds his way to the hidden underground city where Dante is hiding out. He meets face to face with Dante and discovers that she is the manipulator of the homunculi and that she wants the Philosopher’s stone for herself to [...]
Ed has finally been able to vanquish Sloth by turning her water molecules into Ethanol, which as good scientists know evaporates rather quickly :P So another homunculus has bitten the dust, leaving Wrath crying like a baby now that Sloth is gone. However, the celebration is short lived as Envy comes out of [...]
The battle between Ed and the homunculi begins as he attempts to take down Sloth. However, this proves to be a tough battle as Al is still convinced that Sloth is somehow still their mother. Al and Lust had Sloth all ready to be vanquished on a transmutation circle, but Al steps in [...]
Al goes to search out for Shou Tucker to understand the use of the Philosopher’s Stone at an abandoned warehouse. Tucker shows Al to his basement lab filled with lifeless bodies that resemble Tucker’s daughter Nina, and Tucker reveals his intension of bringing back Nina. In return, as good Alchemists follow the rule [...]
Some interesting background information is finally shared between Dante and Hohemheim, as viewers find out that they were the original researchers and creators of the first Philosopher’s stone 400 years ago. So how did they manage to survive for so long? Well, using the Philosopher’s stone’s power, Dante and Hohemheim have transmuted their [...]
We find out that Lyra/Dante is behind the manipulation of all the homunculi in her goal of making the Philosopher’s Stone
Ed and Al finally see their father once again. Al seems happy to see him, while Ed has different ideas :P
Ed and Al finally hear about the death of Hughes, which sets Ed off [...]
Scieszka and Winry head back to Rizenbul as they both don’t have any leads to where Ed and Al are. However, they meet a strange tall gentleman with long blond hair that has followed them all the way, and it turns out that this person is Ed and Al’s long lost father!
Meanwhile, Ed and [...]
Starting where we left off from episode 41, Ed encounters Sloth and Wrath in the escape tunnel for the Lior people. Wrath almost gets the upper hand on Ed as Sloth plays with Ed’s mind as a image of his mother, but Rose magically gains her voice back to warn about Wrath, and Rose’s [...]
The Fuhrer homunculus sends in Kimbley and Tucker’s chimera into Lior to stir things up and aggravate the people of Lior to attempt and fight back.
Scar starts sending the citizen of Lior out of the city into safety before the military attempts to invade.
Scar kills Kimbley as Kimbley was rampaging through Lior, but not before [...]
