Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - 13 June 28
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Summary:
Despite her sympathy, Izumi expels the Elric brothers as her students and makes them leave. Her husband though reminds the brothers that they can be treated as equal human beings now that they’re no longer in a master-student relationship. This causes them to return to Izumi, and even though she’s not happy to see them, the two refuse to leave without finding clues on how to return to their old bodies. Given their determination, Izumi decides to help them out, so the three discuss how Al doesn’t remember seeing the truth like she and Ed did. The solution is to get Al’s memory of that time back, and Izumi decides to ask around to find a way. For the time being, she takes the two brothers in again. Around this same time, over in East City, Roy is getting ready to leave for Central and takes along his five trusted subordinates.
Scar meanwhile is still recovering from his injuries and meets with a village leader who urges him not to continue seeking vengeance. Their conversation is interrupted by some thugs who are after the bounty on Scar, but Scar easily takes care of them. He ultimately decides to leave the settlement because he feels that he can no longer turn back. Back in Dublith, Al gets tossed a message on a piece of paper while he’s alone, and it directs him to a place called Devil’s Nest where several people are waiting. They claim to know about his secret, and when Al decides that it’s better to use force against them, they manage to restrain him by inserting the female of the group into his armor. The leader of the group then appears and introduces them as chimeras who were each combined with a different animal by the military. He himself is not a chimera though and reveals that he’s instead Greed, a Homunculus.
Al finds this hard to believe, so Greed demonstrates his regenerative ability by having his underling knock off the top half of his head. Greed’s interested in the immortal life that Al technically has and wants to know the secrets of Al’s body, but Al himself doesn’t know. Fortunately for Greed, the one person who might know - Ed - then shows up. Greed tries to offer him a deal - knowledge on how to produce a Homunculus in exchange for knowledge of how to transmute a soul - but Ed just gets angry. That leads to Greed having one of his men take Al away while he himself fights Ed. Although Ed proves to be a better fighter than Greed, Greed has his Ultimate Shield and is able to protect his entire body. Greed soon has Ed on the ropes, but Ed figures out that the Ultimate Shield uses the body’s carbon, and he’s able to use alchemy to counter that. He also realizes that Greed can’t harden himself and regenerate at the same time, but the problem is that Ed’s own body isn’t doing too well at this point.
Luckily for Ed, Izumi shows up to save him, and she knows to use alchemy combined with force against Greed. When Greed then questions who she is, Izumi calls herself a passing housewife.
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Well that was both funny and fairly exciting to watch, the former thanks mostly to Izumi and the latter thanks to all the fighting there was this episode. For the most part, this was pretty different from the original series, though a few of the scenes with Greed and his men were similar. Either way, I enjoyed it. In fact, it’s good to see that this series doesn’t need to be censored to hell, unlike a certain other series. The funny thing of course is that FMA airs at an even earlier timeslot than Bleach does, albeit on a different day.
The most interesting thing about this episode though wasn’t even in the episode itself; it was the commercial they aired for the next season/story arc featuring new characters and the new opening song Hologram by NICO Touches the Walls (which I like already). I’m not entirely sure why they decided to do a separate promo for it, but it certainly succeeded in getting me excited about what’s coming up next. The commercial made me laugh too because it looks like Miyano Mamoru is going to voice one of the characters, so it’s really like the entire Gundam 00 cast is in FMA now. I think the only Gundam Meister’s voice we’re missing now is Tieria/Kamiya Hiroshi. You can watch the commercial here.
penguintruth at 5:20 am on June 28th, 2009
I’m not even sure what show I’m watching anymore. This episode juggled, dropped, and cut short scenes and felt really lazy. They’re going as fast as they can so they can get to the Xingese characters, and that’s a shame, because the Greed arc is my favorite in all of FMA.
At least the new Greed voice was decent.
Unknown Voice at 5:21 am on June 28th, 2009
REALLY not happy with this episode.
For one they cut out WAY TOO MUCH STUFF from manga.
for two WHY THE HELL THEY HAVE SWITCHED IZUMI FIGHT TO AFTER ELRIC FIGHT?
And…WHY THE HEll they took out the “license confirmation” part, how are they going to Show Spoiler ▼
info600 at 5:25 am on June 28th, 2009
woah! The writers are speeding again!
penguintruth at 5:26 am on June 28th, 2009
@Unknown Voice
I knew I would eventually agree with you wholeheartedly on something.
Big disappointment.
CS at 5:32 am on June 28th, 2009
What is sure though that Ep. 15 will mark the complete departure from the first anime. And that’s when I’ll start getting more critical at BONES.
Machi at 5:42 am on June 28th, 2009
Hm they certainly cut some rather odd scenes out, as those scenes as Unknown Voice mentioned are continuity scenes. The biggest oddity of this episode being re-arranging the fights against greed. I don’t see why they had to rush this one since the last episode followed the chapter nicely and its not like the content seen in the previous incarnation was THAT similar.
Unknown Voice at 5:43 am on June 28th, 2009
@CS
Actually the next episode, second part of greed arc IS the complete departure point.
CS at 5:51 am on June 28th, 2009
@Unknown Voice
And that is definitely good ^^
bgi at 5:58 am on June 28th, 2009
@penguintruth, Unknown Voice - the time has come?
having Greed done in two episodes is a big NO for me. true, it’s still the material that is very similiar to the first series, but now i’m starting to get a feeling, that they are not going to slow down…
penguintruth at 6:03 am on June 28th, 2009
My god, I agree with bgi, too! C-could we be… getting along?!
sean at 6:08 am on June 28th, 2009
ya this anime isnt doing nearly as well as i hoped it would but im still going to watch it till the end. because its full metal alchemist. full metal alchemist is awesome.
flappy at 6:14 am on June 28th, 2009
Love this episode :D, i really want to see the ed react with lin soon
OkkyCS at 6:28 am on June 28th, 2009
WOW , You got the episode caps fastt How You can Get it ??
Unknown at 6:35 am on June 28th, 2009
Are they really taking a different path from the manga?
NOT again, please. 2 FMA useless animes will be an epic fail. x_x
Unknown Voice at 6:37 am on June 28th, 2009
@Unknown
NO they are not taking a different path.
@flappy
FUCK YES. The trailer was the best part of episode X)
penguintruth at 6:47 am on June 28th, 2009
Not a big Ling fan, myself. Especially now that they’re speeding their way through my favorite character to get to him. Though, the irony doesn’t escape me, given the events later.
hm at 7:46 am on June 28th, 2009
damn they’re ruining it…
why are they speeding through it so much…
i think i’ll just watch the old FMA until this FMA catches up with it..
Sigh.. at 7:48 am on June 28th, 2009
You see.. this is why you DON’T read the manga. So you won’t have anything to compare it with. Enjoy it as it is.
Kim at 8:15 am on June 28th, 2009
@ Sigh
Some of us have been reading the manga for over 5 years now. It’s a little too late to say that.
But the truth is while the episode might be enjoyable on its own merits it’s definitely inferior to the manga chapter it corresponds to.
auntiebin at 8:33 am on June 28th, 2009
woot!! this review is fast!!