Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - 33 November 22
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Summary:
Still on Scar’s trail, Kimblee figures out that he headed north and follows him there. When Kimblee gets word that Scar and Marcoh are on a train, he boards it by having another train run alongside it, but instead of finding Marcoh, he finds Yoki there. Kimblee is then attacked by Scar, and the two recognize each other from their previous encounter years ago. Before Kimblee can really do anything, Scar impales him with a metal pipe, and this leaves Kimblee no choice but to use his alchemy to separate the two parts of the train, with Scar on the other part. Realizing that something happened, the train’s operators stop it and find the injured Kimblee, but he orders them to keep going. Unbeknownst to Kimblee, the real Marcoh is heading north on foot with May Chang. The two eventually reach the shack where Scar’s brother’s research is located, and they find it intact.
Ed and Al meanwhile have also arrived up north, and the snow reminds them of how it once snowed in Resembool when they were young. They get a ride up to the path that leads to the Briggs fortress, but once on foot, they get caught in a big snowstorm. In the middle of this, they are attacked by a large man with an automail arm. He turns out to be wearing a military uniform, but he doesn’t give Ed and Al a chance to explain who they are, forcing them to fight. Despite his alchemy not being effective, Ed is able to jam the man’s automail arm with Al’s armored head, however they are then surrounded by Briggs soldiers. Ed and Al had actually been fighting right near the Briggs wall, and Major General Olivier Mira Armstrong comes out to see what’s going on. Treating them as suspicious, she tears up the introductory letter from her little brother because she judges people with her own eyes, but she still allows the brothers inside the fortress.
Preview
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This was a decent episode considering the fact that it had two battles and some story progression, but I was hoping for a bit more from the first part. Kimblee’s reaction to finding Yoki was amusing, however the battle between him and Scar wasn’t nearly as cool as it could have been given all the build-up to that point and given how Kimblee had a Philosopher’s Stone with him. In fact, I was half-expecting Kimblee to heal himself right there with the power of the Philosopher’s Stone and then continue fighting, but the battle instead just sort of ended. I assume Kimblee will be just fine, but a rematch seems far off now, so all things considered, I’m a little disappointed. On a different note, Marcoh didn’t look as disfigured as I imagined; he reminds me a little of Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars now.
As for Ed and Al, their battle with Buccaneer wasn’t bad, and I wonder why Ed’s alchemy didn’t work - there seems to be a lot of that lately. The way Armstrong’s sister Olivier (voiced by Soumi Youko) was then introduced wasn’t too surprising, and she seemed like a real hardass who would be a great ally to have if you can get on her good side. I imagine that’s what’s going to happen with the arrival/attack of Sloth next episode, and I’m curious to see more of her character and more of Sloth since he hasn’t really been active in the series so far.
penguintruth at 4:25 am on November 22nd, 2009
Olivier Mira Armstrong <3 <3 <3
And that’s all I have to say (for now).
Izumi at 4:29 am on November 22nd, 2009
SLOTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Acylia at 4:30 am on November 22nd, 2009
Damn, you’re fast. Thanks for making this my favorite animeblog.
Really looking forward to the next episode though, I really like Olivier’s character… :3
Homuncurus! at 4:32 am on November 22nd, 2009
ZOMG!!!
Forget the fact they’re stretching these episodes shitless — ITS FUCKING OLIVIER!
And Slothy comes in next episode!
<3
Shinn Agami at 4:44 am on November 22nd, 2009
For what it’s worth, the previous sloth was a lot hotter than this one…
Sugoi at 4:48 am on November 22nd, 2009
Olivier Armstrong Is HERE! BTW The Best Face Expression Ever ! :http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/Fullmetal%20Alchemist/Fullmetal%20Alchemist%20-%2033%20-%20Large%2003.jpg
Alec at 4:51 am on November 22nd, 2009
damn!…still have 2 wait 4 13-16 hours for d subs 2 show up
Siddharth at 5:32 am on November 22nd, 2009
“Marcoh didn’t look as disfigured as I imagined”
Same here!
Koroshiya at 5:35 am on November 22nd, 2009
@Shinn Agami - For what it’s worth, we have Oliver and Ran Fan in this one…
vinson at 7:17 am on November 22nd, 2009
good thing the blonde hair from north was Armstrong’s sister, it didn’t quite what I imagine her role would be. hahaha~ surpassing her brothers’ postion!
Zero at 9:24 am on November 22nd, 2009
w00t!!!! Sloth’s in it for the z’s!
And now comes the bad@$$ Marco. He’ll pop a cap into someone VERY important soon enough.
Kozue at 10:13 am on November 22nd, 2009
They censored Marcoh’s face a bit, but then again, animes usually do that.
blue at 10:20 am on November 22nd, 2009
Well, it looks pretty good, but again stretched it like whoa. Now it’s not really about the pacing for me but more that it’s taking forever now to get to anything, since I know what’s coming.
OLIVIER. 8D
(The Sloth fight airs on my birthday! Yay!)
TakashiD at 12:30 pm on November 22nd, 2009
Omni: well the reason that fight with kimblee was short and disapointing after all that buildup is because in the manga NONE of that buildup was there. in the manga the first time we see kimblee chasing scar is the scene at north headquarters and then we immediatly go to that fight.
I still think Olivier’ lips look weird, but other then that she is her usual badass self. and yay for crocidile arm man and the guy with shades! (i forget there names) cant wait to see Sloth next episode! you will find he is VERY different from the Sloth in Fullmetal season one.
Putang at 1:48 pm on November 22nd, 2009
woh…. woh…. wohh………………………………….
Olivier…. oh god <3… <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 x1000000000
SomeKindaNick at 1:59 pm on November 22nd, 2009
Marcoh seems kinda less disfigured compared to the manga…
SomeKindaNick at 2:01 pm on November 22nd, 2009
In a way though, anime marcoh looks creepier…
pink unicorn at 2:04 pm on November 22nd, 2009
FISRT!!
FaS at 7:02 pm on November 22nd, 2009
I haven’t seen this yet, but I can’t wait to start watching it! FMA:Brotherhood should be called, FMA:FillerKiller. I really love this show.
Jason at 7:31 pm on November 22nd, 2009
nobody noticed the skull on the snowman Ed made when he was recalling the snowstorm back in resembol?