Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - 07 May 17
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Summary:
Ed is devastated to find that Marcoh’s research materials were destroyed in a fire, unaware that it was Lust who intentionally burned the building down. Lust also joins Gluttony in attacking Scar in the sewers, causing a huge explosion, but Scar gets away, and Roy and his men later find Scar’s bloody jacket among the rubble. Meanwhile, Ed and Al are transferred into the care of Denny Brosh and Maria Ross, and they take the brothers to someone who’s familiar with the destroyed documents. They find this person buried in a room full of books, and after digging her out, they’re introduced to a woman named Sheska who loves books and was employed at the branch where Marcoh’s materials were. As it turns out, Sheska remembers the complete and exact contents of those books, and she’s able to copy everything straight out of her memory. It takes her five days to do so, and Ed and Al discover that Marcoh actually wrote a cooking recipe book. Ed knows that this is useful though, and he pays Sheska a large amount of money out of his research funds.
Back at the Central Library, Ed explains to Brosh that Marcoh encrypted his alchemy research to look like a cooking research. He and Al get to work deciphering it, but they have a hard time with it at first. In the middle of this, they’re paid a visit by Sheska who was able to put her sick mother in a good hospital thanks to the money Ed gave her. When Sheska expresses her gratitude over how they let a useless person like her help, Al tells her that she’s not useless and that trying your hardest for something is in itself a talent. As fate would have it, Hughes shows up to complain to the brothers about the loss of his archived documents in the fire, and so Ed and Al set him up with Sheska who remembers those files. Remotivated by Al’s words to Sheska, Ed resumes deciphering Marcoh’s work and finally succeeds. The answer he finds frustrates him though: the ingredients for the Philosopher’s Stone are living humans.
Disheartened by how far away their goal keeps getting, Ed and Al stay in their room until Armstrong comes by after hearing what happened from Brosh and Ross. By mentioning that the truth can be cruel, Armstrong reminds Ed of what Marcoh had said about the real truth beyond truth, and this in turn makes Ed realize that there’s something more to all this. Armstrong reveals that Marcoh belonged to the Third Laboratory, but what catches Ed’s eye on the map is the closed Fifth Laboratory building that has been put off-limits. Next door to it is a prison, and Ed suspects that prisoners who were to be executed were instead used for this research. Armstrong decides to personally look into this, but he doesn’t want Ed and Al doing anything for the time being. Despite this, the two brothers head to the off-limits building during the night. Ed is able to get in through a vent, but Al is too big to fit inside, so he waits outside. A short while later, Al gets attacked by someone wielding a cleaver.
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Well this episode was very similar to episodes 18 and 19 from the first series (minus some of the Scar stuff), so there’s still not much really new. I was actually hoping for more from the fight between Scar and the Homunculi this week, but it was short, and they still haven’t shown what ended up happening between Lust and Marcoh. They are, however, at least moving fairly quickly through the story so that we can get to the point where the plots will widely diverge. It’s probably a really good thing in this case because it means that we’re past some of the slower, albeit amusing, parts with Sheska and figuring out Marcoh’s research, and next week’s episode should have plenty of action.
Speaking of which, Sheska’s new voice actress Fujimura Chika is portraying her in a more animated/hyper manner than Wakabayashi Naomi did, and it makes her a little more interesting to watch. It also took me a little bit of getting used to hearing Nazuka Kaori as Ross since I still closely associate her voice with characters from other big series (like SOUL EATER and true tears).
Wilco at 5:08 am on May 17th, 2009
Seems like a decent episode. Can’t wait till next week’s episode though.
Cherubium at 5:12 am on May 17th, 2009
Did they have the last three days of Sheska as she got stuck under her pile of book.
I found that funny in the first series when what she imagined happened to her and what really took place was completely off.
Omni at 5:28 am on May 17th, 2009
No, that scene wasn’t in there.
matanichigetsukahorasuimokumawattekindounichou at 5:30 am on May 17th, 2009
thx! finally it same with the manga series. um, is this ep is about lust burns the library,, then ed and al meet sheska, until elric brothers fight in 5th laboratory where marcoh has been made philosopher stone there…
i like the criminal that likes chopping.
rakkynon at 6:07 am on May 17th, 2009
Holy fucking shits, will the next episode include the most sorrowful scene that anime world has ever seen? (fma first season, episode 25?)
penguintruth at 6:18 am on May 17th, 2009
I didn’t think the new Sheska sounded different at all from the old one, to be honest.
It’s too bad the character has such a smaller role in the manga when compared to the first series.
It’s also weird that they stopped sort of mid chapter 11.
ROFLWAFFLELAWL at 6:52 am on May 17th, 2009
So this is basically just a fast run through of the first “season” and then on to the manga parts right? Obviously not ALL of the first season (since that one actually ended) but up to where the manga is right? I’m still not 100% sure cuz I’m getting mixed things from different people. Is this just a remake or is this the manga version?
DaveJS at 7:26 am on May 17th, 2009
@rakkynon:
No, that never happened in the manga.
@ROFLWAFFLELAWL
This is following the manga.
DaveJS at 7:30 am on May 17th, 2009
@rakkynon:
O…. actually I guess it did. But that won’t be till later still.
Sukai at 8:07 am on May 17th, 2009
Next week will be interesting, especially with the thoughts that Barry the chopper plants into Al’s head.
Shinn Agami at 8:46 am on May 17th, 2009
Finally, Barry’s getting more screen time than the first series!! w00t!
Kami at 8:55 am on May 17th, 2009
By the the pacing their going at Hughes is gonna die in about 2 or 3 episode and in my opinion they haven’t build up his character enough so we would remember him for the rest the show. I mean the guy only had about a min or so screen time in the episodes so far.
Anza at 10:30 am on May 17th, 2009
This is going a lot bloody faster then I thought it would, we’ll likely reach to the point where the manga totally deviates from the original anime by ep 10 or 11.
kkg22104 at 10:50 am on May 17th, 2009
if you check wikipedia, it has the names of the eps up to 10…and it seems like Show Spoiler ▼
Unknown Voice at 12:42 pm on May 17th, 2009
@ROFLWAFFLELAWL
This follows manga.
FMA1 loosely followed manga with a differences there and there, inserting stuff for their anime-original ending, adding fillers, NOT-killing some characters, etc. FMA1 did that up until 5th lab, where differences began to grow bigger and bigger, that by the time Greed is introduced, everything is completely different from manga..
FMA2 so far follows manga almost page to page so far, except for first episode which was anime-original based on character mentioned in manga.
rakkynon at 12:47 pm on May 17th, 2009
Just wait till you see Ran Fan, you whiners.
fomer at 1:34 pm on May 17th, 2009
Just wait till mei also appears with her kung fu panda.
BROOKLYN otaku at 2:12 pm on May 17th, 2009
last two comments^^ AGREE!!!!!
penguintruth at 6:00 pm on May 17th, 2009
The Xingese characters are NOT a way to draw people to the manga material.
They are, by far, the worst characters in any FMA universe. Especially Ling.
Unknown Voice at 7:16 pm on May 17th, 2009
@penguintruth
Well…for you.
Others(like me) might have an entirely different opinion.
For me both “He” and “She”(along with “mini-She”) were perfect additions to the cast.
“He” added a lot of interesting bits to whole plot of you-know-who, while “She
and “Mini-She” made m ost of the most hilarious fma moments possible.