"It's okay to hurt" is my personal most impactful line of the show. The boys need that motherly love and Izumi needs to give it. And I'm very similar to Ed: covering up grief and pain with humor and hijinx. You don't even know you need permission to feel pain until its given, then suddenly you realize how much you're holding back.
The disease that killed Trisha originated from the conflict in Ishval. And it’s based on what happened in the first world war after the battle of Somme. They were so many dead and there’s no place to bury them thousands of bodies men and animals alike just left to rot in the mud. Naturally, soldiers got sick, but that’s not all. The villages around Somme began getting sick because of the rats and other carrion. Even the wind. Now in this series, Ed and Al’s hometown is near the eastern border with a conflict is actually happening. Eastern command is where Roy is from. So the diseases from the Civil War are being carried Westward. Ed had mentioned in his monologue in the second episode, that a plague struck the East. That’s where it’s from. Many major events of the series revolve around the Civil War.
One of my absolute favorite missable details is Izumi sharpening the knife She's one of the most skilled alchemists we have encountered thusfar. She could so effortlessly use alchemy to hone the knife's edge. But she actively chooses to do it the "normal" way, the hard way, the way that everyone else has to. And that speaks volumes about her character
It’s the quickest of lines in episode 2, but Trisha Elric died from an illness that broke out that season. The boys came home to find her passed out, and she was bedridden for a while before she finally succumbed
Actually, you saw Izumi and Sig before. They make a brief cameo when Winry arrives at Central. They pass behind her at the train station although, since they don't know each other, they don't greet each other. It's amazing how this series goes through all climates and all genres without fail.
“It’s ok to hurt” was revolutionary for me when I watched this first. It’s so important to me. FMA:B is all about how imperfections and pain do not mean your life is not worth living.
The symbol on Ed’s coat, Al’s armor and Izumi tattoo of the snake, cross and crown is a just an alchemy symbol. It’s the symbol for the philosopher’s Stone from Nicolas Flamel, a real alchemist from our past.
Sort of--Flamel was a real person, a French monk and scholar, but the alchemy documents with his name on them were written centuries after he died. There's no evidence he ever actually practiced alchemy, but it was a common fraud in ancient times through the middle ages to write stuff under a historical name to make it seem like ancient wisdom. That symbol is from those documents and represents resurrection and the bringing together of opposites (a cross, sacred to Christianity, paired with a snake, symbol of the devil) to create something new. It's also meant to be a sort of mirror of the uroboros tattoos, which also represent resurrection and infinity but lack that bringing together of opposites (which is a crucial part of the traditional process for making a philosophers stone).
In the manga izumi leaves one of the shop attendants in the island in case the boys needed help... Granted she made him pretend to be a feral island man who was constantly stealing their food and fighting them... So take that as you will XD
The reason she laughed at Ed and Al's explaining one is all and all is one, i always interpreted it as they said it in such a simple and childlike reasoning even if it was correct.
Once upon a time when I was a teen I was hanging out with some friends one of them was surprised to learn that falling from a great enough height hitting water is like hitting concrete. Another friend said it's because the water can't get out of the way fast enough. Those of us who already knew about this started laughing and he gets upset and we had to explain we know we'd just never heard anyone describe it that way.
There is also the explanation of relativity as told in Deep Blue Sea: You put your hands on a hot pan, a minute can seem like an hour. You put your hands [consensually] on a hot woman, an hour can seem like a minute. It's all relative.
The interpretation I always took from the circle free transmutation that they can do is this; by having seen the truth, they have knowledge "beyond what people should know" pretty much flooded into their mind, so they themselves contain the information needed for the matrix, and by clapping their hands together they are completing the physical act of the circle needed for it.
A quick note on anime in general, coughing up blood is a pretty commonly-used indicator for some kind of serious internal injury. When that much blood comes out of an anime character's mouth, something is wrong with their lungs, stomach, intestines, or something else in their lower abdomen, generally. Another note about this episode in particular, Izumi's tattoo is a real alchemical symbol called Flamel's cross. It's representative of alchemy as the union between medicine and philosophy and the enlightenment that comes from it, and it was also used by Flamel to refer directly to the Philosopher's Stone. Edward wears it on his cloak as a sign of loyalty to his teacher, as well as his own personal connections to that idea. And finally, the idea of 'being the matrix' refers to the knowledge gained by seeing the Truth. Every transmutation begins with a circle, whether drawn or formed by joining their hands. The exact specifics of the transmutation are defined by the other symbols drawn on top of the circle, the structural matrix. Ed and Teacher are able to replace these symbols with their own intent and willpower to guide the transmutation, allowing them to become the matrix. That makes them way more versatile compared to other alchemists, not dependent on memorizing countless alchemical formulas and creating specific physical circles.
@@DetectiveThursday Wasn't aware of that, thanks for bringing that up! That's what I love most about FMA:B, there's always some new connection, depth, or hidden meaning to uncover.
@@jonahcraven8669 some people would chalk this up to coincidence but I don't think it is especially considering she is one of the few that use the term matrix when most people say circle. also the creator makes a lot of references to real life alchemists and their works, more than most realize. the primary language of those documents was latin, with the vessel used to prepare alchemical formulas sometimes referred to as a matrix as well which is consistent with alchemy's obsession with birth life and death, the vessel is literally the place where the formula is born.
Izumi wanted children, the brothers wanted their mother and they found each other. There's a tragic beauty in that. Also in the manga, Izumi has a deep hatred of the military. It's hinted at in the anime, but never shown as clearly as it is in the manga.
Spoiler(?) There was also a hint in the manga or the other anime version that truth is an iron, he ironically removed Isume's reproductive organs as her main cost for reviving her dead child. The cost for the dead child being all possible future children. And maybe a little more, hence the blood.
Ep 12 is very important ep, it gives you the 3 basic principles in alchemy (cycle of life is not equivalent exchange, it is another parallel rule or principle): 1. One is all, all is one. 2. Cycle of life is essential (Life is a cycle and Alchemy is life itself, hence circle [matrix] is essential to activate Alchemy) 3. Equivalent exchange.
That moment at the end always chokes me up. Izumi thumps them over the head for doing something so reckless and foolish, then holds and comforts them because she knows EXACTLY what they've been through. The desperation that led them to try, the horror of seeing the Truth and losing part (or all) of their bodies, and the heartbreak of how after all that desperation, pain, and horror, it still just doesn't work. She's the only person they know who REALLY understands what they've been through and can REALLY honestly express sympathy for it.
Unbeknownst to them Mustang also now knows what it feels like, he wants Hughes back, and if he didn't have the Fullmetal to be an example of how it doesn't work, Mustang would be trying to do human transmuation to bring him back. It's still tempting because Mustang will be dealing with "but I'm more powerful and knowledgable than those boys were, I'd not fail!!!!". Find the right person and Mustang would try to bring then back to life. Hughes might still be enough if he weren't so focussed on finding his killer rather than how to transmute humans.
You will learn why later. All you need to know now is that the civil war created a lot of disabled veterans. Rush Valley is rich in metals, so a combination of rich metal ore and disabled veterans led to an explosion of prosthetics in that city.
Hoenheim was an alchemist but he wasn’t a state alchemist. State alchemists work directly for the government. There are lots of alchemists and only a minority are state alchemists
it is interesting to see how good the arrangement of FMAB is. In ep 11, we have a woman who give birth successfully, in ep 12, we have a woman who cannnot, which explains why giving birth is so called a "miracle" in ep11.
For trisha's death, it doesnt get explained much in the anime but the boys are from the east, and grew up during the war that took place in the east. Plagues during wars are common place, and especially when all your doctors get recruited to the war effort, there isnt to care for the sick back home, so the sick sit and they multiply, and well... epidemic
In a video game I just started playing call "My Adventure Guild," one of the characters you can hire is Emily the Alchemist. When you meet here, she actually says "I am an alchemist who comes from a very long line of alchemists where alchemy has been passed down through my family of generations." I'm sure the character is a homage to Major Armstrong.
Sig and Izumi are just a lovely dose of wholesomeness at a desperately needed time. Izumi is a personal favorite of mine, but i do love my no-nonsense ladies. They add a little extra salt on her backstory in the original by showing her gate to truth and it is adorned with baby names. l'll let slip that Hohenheim is a lot like Scar in the way that both have a burden they can't ignore. I might be a bit greedy here but i cant wait for the next few episodes!!!
She's already reacted to Vox Machina, so she knows. In fact I think part of the reason she started FMAB was for Travis and Laura. Gonna be great when that part happens 😁
Quick fact: factoid means something that is commonly held to be true but is actually false, and not a quick bit of trivia as it is oftentimes erroneously used to mean.
@@lewstherintelamon244 went a long way to carry that water bucket mate. Fact or factoid. The meaning and the colloquialism of both are interchangeable. Factoid will often refer to something that is held as true and is partially false, which can be attested to the fact that I said they are married when they were in fact dating. So the factoid is that they are married. Once again, this is the internet and I shouldn't be on blast for using a term correctly just because you did not understand the context. Reply if you want, but mate, you're choosing a darn small hill to fight on.
@@lewstherintelamon244 quick fact: both uses are correct. Unless you wanna argue with Merriam-Webster. Factoid: 1: an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print 2: a briefly stated and usually trivial fact
when I was younger, Izumi was one of those strong female characters that Arakawa (the author) created. Now, twenty years later, she's one of my favourite characters and she resonates with me for many things. The scene where she hugs Al and Ed always make me cry.
I like you singing Circle of Life and 2 seconds afterward still wondering what the "one is all, all is one" thing is about. Like- you got it, you solved the puzzle!
Had a huge smile on my fave when you sang "the circle of life", because it's essentially the lesson of the episode ehehe. ❤ Truly, this show has so many things you can take away from it, thats why I love to see people reacting to it.
I don't know what reaction you said that you are too hard on yourself but 100% true here. You weren't dumb. You were doing your job and being entertaining and saying what you are thinking while watching the show. And what you were thinking was on point. All the back pats are earned!
My head canon about why Izumi laughs at Ed and Al's answer is more like a shocked laughter from her like she recognized these boys really understood what they were saying and didn't expect such a profound answer from some kids.
Yea, the new intros every 10 or so episodes tend to summarize the next 10. Also, if it hasnt been mentioned: The lady who drew the manga, has a thing for big men. ^^
Alchemy being a part of that flow of life really calls back to the revelation the revealed at the end of the Original Full Metal Alchemist show, those that remember it know
Remember that everyone can have a different view of their actions: everyone thinks they are the hero in the story. So you currently know how Ed saw his father, but that isn't what Grandma saw (so was drinking buddies with Hoenheim) nor was it what Trish saw (so married Hoenheim). What you have currently is what Ed knows about his dad, coloured by that perception. Ed's ark is coming to terms with the past and accepting it, even if not liking it. The past IS the past, and all the tears will not wash away a single line (as Omar Khyam put it in his poem). As to FMA:B it is split roughly in three parts: the first part is mostly questions and very few answers, then there are still more questions, but a lot more answers, then right to the end mostly answers to questions that you may have had for 60 episodes. The early part assumes you know enough about the manga or watched FMA anime (that you won't be able to get now) so it doesn't take as long, meaning you resolve some things quicker. E.g. Al takes a long time obsessing over what 66 told him, because it has that time, but IMO for this it is better that it resolves a lot quicker. But some things, like "episode 4", you get kicked in the feels for her and for Hughes because it can't take the time to go subtle, but the earlier FMA you could spend more time to like them, the characters are more fleshed out, so it might hit deeper. It can be better or worse depending on personal preference, but the original FMA caught up to the Manga and then wrote its own story based on "so far..." around the 12-14 mark in FMA:B and FMA took about twice as long to get there. So if you do find a copy of FMA, out of its 56-ish episodes, something more than the first 20 are "spoilered" by having watched FMA:B.
Started watching you when you started The Expanse and I have been enjoying your journey through another life changing show for me. I absolutely love Full Metal, both versions have impacted my life, back in 2003 when I was just about in middle school which was a major time of development in life for a kid and I absolutely fell in love with it. I had already liked anime previously but FMA was my first jump into a 'real' anime, not that pokemon or DBZ aren't but they weren't seen as anime to kids in the west, they were just cartoons for most. I remember watching Speed Racer and Sailor moon when I was a much younger kid but they didn't stick with me an cause me to become a real fan of anime as a medium. Then when Brotherhood came out I didn't even know it was coming out, I stumbled upon it on a streaming site listed as Hagane no Renkinjutsushi and it had no thumbnail. Clicking on it was chance just to see what it was but when I did I about shit myself at a new FMA, then to find out that it was the faithful adaptation to the manga made it even better. I am glad you are enjoying your time so far through it, especially since this show means so much to me, there are so many strong emotional moments throughout and can't wait to see you experience this journey, especially as you eventually learn the truth hidden within the truth ;).
The war in Ishval is in the past, but we've seen that Bradley didn't care much about how many deaths occurred there and the circumstances surrounding those deaths.
In episode 2 was said that one year plage came and she got it and become ill and died from it, it was sudden, not something she had when she was left with boys... About matrix, that you become matrix what Izumi said it is bc you make circle when you clap your hands so you become the circle for alchemy and the symbols inside circle your mind provides, so you don't have to draw it.
@@mranima748 I like that race is somewhat ambiguous since it's an alternate reality, makes it easy to see qualities in the people that we we'd see in others and ourselves
5:06 So now that it happened, that moment in the opening is actually a reference to Hughes death. In the last moment he closes his eyes (possibly acceptance?) and it looks like he bursts into flames. We follow the embers as the camera moves up to Roy, and he suddenly turns to face the eruption in shock. kinda morbid, but still a cool detail!
In the 2003 anime, the boys didn't go look for Izumi. Izumi and Sig found them and basically kidnapped them. But there was some build up and it was played as a mic drop; the show wanted the audience to think Sig was the teacher, not Izumi. That connects to the series creator, Arakawa. It's extremely rare for a woman to write manga, so the show made it seem unlikely that the teacher would be female as a parallel. Sidenote: Wait until you meet Olivier...
That's... not what happened at all. She saved the town from the flood, but was then hospitalized in Resembool and cared for by the town doctors. Winry was there, too, as were Ed and Al, who asked her, in the hospital, to take them in as pupils. No one got "basically kidnapped".
@@downeastbeast6448 that's what happened when they met. But when the boys were going to rush valley, they were beaten up and tied up then brought to Izumi's home
@@Radild1 Yeah but the 03 verison also changes a ton about the way events are sequenced/play out compared to the manga/Brotherhood so there isn't really a point of comparison.
NOT A SPOILER: Not about this episode, but there's something important I wanted to clarify for your future watching. As Mustang said when we first met Scar, a lot of state alchemists were sent to Ishval during the war. This includes Mustang, Armstrong, and Kimblee. Mustang is even known as 'The Hero of Ishval'. This is also one of the reasons state alchemists are known as the dogs of the military; because they do the dirty work and do whatever they are commanded
You actually saw teacher and her husband in a previous episode before you knew much of her. It was one of the train station scenes. Episode 9. They walk behind winery.
They don't just come out and say it in the dub for whatever reason, but when Izumi committed human transmutation, she lost her uterus and parts of her entrails. For trying to bring her child back to life, she was given a body that could never have children.
There’s an OVA called The Tale of Teacher that shows Izumi’s alchemy training that you should watch at some point, although maybe not until episode 33 if you don’t want very minor spoilers for a location the boys go then
"I hope it doesn't get so hot my brain starts melting." Looks like you're becoming sebacean (in case the reference doesn't quite land, Aeryn from Farscape). Also, there's a scene from the '03 anime not in Brotherhood where Armstrong and Sig meet and have a flexing contest. I recommend you give it a look, but whether you record it is up to you.
Oh wow. I was Like number 666. Wonder if that's an omen. Anyway, yeah. It's not a spoiler to say that when Ed says it's his dad's fault their mother died, he wasn't being literal. They mentioned in an earlier episode that their mother simply got ill from a disease that swept through after their dad left. It's just his vengeful feelings toward his dad who wasn't there to care for their mother in her time of need that made him say it was his fault. Basically that it was his responsibility to protect her and he wasn't there to do so.
“Did they have to keep Hughes?” Well Angela, you must notice now that the OP shifts to Roy right after with flames behind him… it foreshadows how his personal burden will cost him his best friend. So, if I’m not mistaken, in Japanese pronouns aren’t gendered the way we perceive them; thus, Sig coming out with a bloody knife kind of invites us the audience to think that’s Teacher. Both he *and* Izumi have subversive traits which catch us off guard at a first meeting; ironically the brothers know this but we’ll, presentation of storytelling… Fun fact, but this point in the story is where the manga presented *all* the Elric bros. Backstory up to this point. This includes, in relative order: * Trisha Elric dying, and them resolving to learn Human Transmutation. * Meeting Izumi and training with her. * Losing their bodies to the Truth. * Ed preparing for the Exam; incidentally this is when we first see Bradley in action as a result (not earlier), so up until then we’ve not seen his absurd combat ability even in just drawing his sword unseen… There’s some subplots that were cut for time so they could progress the story at a more brisk pace, without having to rush the stuff that’s needed to tell the main story. You’re not losing anything essential thankfully… You’ll learn more about Dad, eventually… Though one thing, Izumi didn’t say he’s a *State* Alchemist, only an alchemist. On Mom… It’s stated that the Ishvalan War - which lasted seven years and ended before Ed became Fullmetal, but most of it was the Eastern Conflict before Bradley signed the order - brought a lot of strife and Ed was able to feign that he lost his limbs that way. And wars can bring diseases… I think this is just a theory, but people have posited that Trisha caught something she’s got no protection against and it killed her. Ed’s not blaming his father for her death from a thorough or rational place, he hates him for being gone and thinks he could have saved her… which, given Hohenheim is supposedly very gifted *might* be true. It’s really more about Edward’s I’ll feelings and his father is understandably an easy target for blame.
Theres alot lf great episodes in fmab, its hard for me to rank any of them, but this is one of my absolute favorites. I love this way of looking at the world
You can start to see it in this episode, but the boys alchemy echos a lot of the flavorful styles that Izumi uses. They both create fists and hands when they shift the ground. We don't see other people using that kind of alchemy often, but they tend to use different styles over the same motion when they do. Just figured I would point it out now, since we see a teacher and student doing similar things.
I also find it really interesting that the first thing Izumi teaches them is supposed to get the idea across that death is a part of the flow. She tried to set that up as the basis of their understanding, so they would never try to repeat her mistake. She just didn't quite realize that they were already on that path. I don't think anything short of walking through her mistake and consequences directly would have any chance of stopping them, but that is such a taboo and a tender subject it isn't something you would just throw out there.
Even though FMA isn't my favorite anime of all time or anything I'm a sucker for the mentor trope when it comes to characters and Izumi is so fuckin' cool.
When I first got here, I thought Izumi was amazing. I can't remember what I thought going into the episode, though. She was definitely a great surprise, and is an uncontested fan favorite character. Regarding their mom, it was mentioned in Episode 2 that an epidemic was sweeping through the region, and that's what their mom was one of the many deaths that resulted. If you're paying close attention to dates and other mentioned time frames, you'll notice this corresponded to the war in Ishval. Rosembool is in the eastern region of the country and shown on maps to be not all that far from Ishval (blink and you miss it, but you can see this in episode 5 when getting the backstory regarding Ishval, with the animation implying that the conflict probably reached the countryside near Rosembool). It's more explicit in the manga, but the amount of death in the extermination created a perfect breeding ground for disease, hence an epidemic. This also makes what Ed's says to the Fuehrer during his State Alchemist examination technically true; when his automail arm is mentioned he said, "It happened in the eastern conflict".
Based on your Patreon you’ve already seen the new opening to the show. New openings are pretty typical in anime especially longer running ones. While nowadays anime is split into seasons with each season having a new opening and ending song(sometimes even more than one of each), anime especially shonen anime, back then were more so split into story arcs with each arc having its own name and each arc will have a new opening and ending to go along with it(nowadays anime is still split into arcs just that each new season is a new arc). So yea now you can discover a bunch of anime music to jam out to if you watch more anime.
My image of Izumi and who she turned out to be were almost an exact match. It never even occured to me that Ed and Al’s teacher could be evil, but since they were so scared of her, I assumed she would be tough.
just to kinda solidify your understanding without spoiling, the alchemists who've seen truth ended up with a widened understanding of alchemy. it's not so much that "only" they have "a matrix" inside, but that they learned how to use it for alchemy. it's like in avatar the last airbender, where someone could suddenly be taught how to bend elements. also though you called it a farce, to realise one is all, and all is one, as far as i know that does come from historical alchemy. they were basically trying to do science without having discovered the tools for science just yet. in the context of the show, where it's pretty much a very valid expression of science, "all is one, and one is all" is a basic truth of the universe hypothesized by alchemy, and confirmed by actual science. all the way to carl sagan - we're a way for the universe to know itself.
Something that isn’t clear is that the show is split into 5 “seasons” each one with a different intro that relates to the content, so hughes doesnt return in the intro
After learning Izumi lost her baby, it hits harder when Ed and Al talk to her about how miraculous childbirth is.
True, you hear it in her voice, that it's a tender topic
"It's okay to hurt" is my personal most impactful line of the show. The boys need that motherly love and Izumi needs to give it. And I'm very similar to Ed: covering up grief and pain with humor and hijinx. You don't even know you need permission to feel pain until its given, then suddenly you realize how much you're holding back.
Also Al's "Sorry, we're so sorry".
You accidentally figured out Teacher's lesson and you didn't even know it. 😂
There I was clowning around
The disease that killed Trisha originated from the conflict in Ishval. And it’s based on what happened in the first world war after the battle of Somme. They were so many dead and there’s no place to bury them thousands of bodies men and animals alike just left to rot in the mud. Naturally, soldiers got sick, but that’s not all. The villages around Somme began getting sick because of the rats and other carrion. Even the wind. Now in this series, Ed and Al’s hometown is near the eastern border with a conflict is actually happening. Eastern command is where Roy is from. So the diseases from the Civil War are being carried Westward. Ed had mentioned in his monologue in the second episode, that a plague struck the East. That’s where it’s from. Many major events of the series revolve around the Civil War.
One of my absolute favorite missable details is Izumi sharpening the knife
She's one of the most skilled alchemists we have encountered thusfar. She could so effortlessly use alchemy to hone the knife's edge.
But she actively chooses to do it the "normal" way, the hard way, the way that everyone else has to. And that speaks volumes about her character
It's also a sweet bonding activity between her and Sig. She sharpens and throws he catches and puts them in their place.
It’s the quickest of lines in episode 2, but Trisha Elric died from an illness that broke out that season. The boys came home to find her passed out, and she was bedridden for a while before she finally succumbed
This is also why Ed blames Hohenheim for her death- if their dad had been there, she would have gotten help sooner.
@@brendanoconnor1550 they really should have added more of the Trisha stuff in this flashback episode.
to know more about their mother, watch FMA 2003 ep3 is highly recommended.
... a sickness that Izumi survived but her child did not... oh my god.
FMA is a masterclass in female character writing, something that is rarely seen in the Shōnen manga/anime genre.
probably helps that it was written by a woman
Actually, you saw Izumi and Sig before. They make a brief cameo when Winry arrives at Central. They pass behind her at the train station although, since they don't know each other, they don't greet each other.
It's amazing how this series goes through all climates and all genres without fail.
“It’s ok to hurt” was revolutionary for me when I watched this first. It’s so important to me. FMA:B is all about how imperfections and pain do not mean your life is not worth living.
The symbol on Ed’s coat, Al’s armor and Izumi tattoo of the snake, cross and crown is a just an alchemy symbol. It’s the symbol for the philosopher’s Stone from Nicolas Flamel, a real alchemist from our past.
Sort of--Flamel was a real person, a French monk and scholar, but the alchemy documents with his name on them were written centuries after he died. There's no evidence he ever actually practiced alchemy, but it was a common fraud in ancient times through the middle ages to write stuff under a historical name to make it seem like ancient wisdom. That symbol is from those documents and represents resurrection and the bringing together of opposites (a cross, sacred to Christianity, paired with a snake, symbol of the devil) to create something new. It's also meant to be a sort of mirror of the uroboros tattoos, which also represent resurrection and infinity but lack that bringing together of opposites (which is a crucial part of the traditional process for making a philosophers stone).
In the manga izumi leaves one of the shop attendants in the island in case the boys needed help... Granted she made him pretend to be a feral island man who was constantly stealing their food and fighting them... So take that as you will XD
@@a3-radio I miss that feral island man
The reason she laughed at Ed and Al's explaining one is all and all is one, i always interpreted it as they said it in such a simple and childlike reasoning even if it was correct.
Once upon a time when I was a teen I was hanging out with some friends one of them was surprised to learn that falling from a great enough height hitting water is like hitting concrete.
Another friend said it's because the water can't get out of the way fast enough. Those of us who already knew about this started laughing and he gets upset and we had to explain we know we'd just never heard anyone describe it that way.
@@charlesbaldwin3166 how else do you describe it?
@@matthewzeller5026the surface tension means the water can’t be broken through (penetrated if you will)
There is also the explanation of relativity as told in Deep Blue Sea:
You put your hands on a hot pan, a minute can seem like an hour. You put your hands [consensually] on a hot woman, an hour can seem like a minute. It's all relative.
@@matthewzeller5026 In my experience most people start off by talking about surface tension over explaining it.
Teacher is what Peak Housewife looks like
The interpretation I always took from the circle free transmutation that they can do is this; by having seen the truth, they have knowledge "beyond what people should know" pretty much flooded into their mind, so they themselves contain the information needed for the matrix, and by clapping their hands together they are completing the physical act of the circle needed for it.
"It's okay to hurt", such a simple line yet one of the most impactful. Helped me personally with a lot of personal loses.
The two reactions between Armstrong and Sig. One she needs to fan herself and the other is the thought of how well he hugs. Both seem sweet. 🥰
A quick note on anime in general, coughing up blood is a pretty commonly-used indicator for some kind of serious internal injury. When that much blood comes out of an anime character's mouth, something is wrong with their lungs, stomach, intestines, or something else in their lower abdomen, generally.
Another note about this episode in particular, Izumi's tattoo is a real alchemical symbol called Flamel's cross. It's representative of alchemy as the union between medicine and philosophy and the enlightenment that comes from it, and it was also used by Flamel to refer directly to the Philosopher's Stone. Edward wears it on his cloak as a sign of loyalty to his teacher, as well as his own personal connections to that idea.
And finally, the idea of 'being the matrix' refers to the knowledge gained by seeing the Truth. Every transmutation begins with a circle, whether drawn or formed by joining their hands. The exact specifics of the transmutation are defined by the other symbols drawn on top of the circle, the structural matrix. Ed and Teacher are able to replace these symbols with their own intent and willpower to guide the transmutation, allowing them to become the matrix. That makes them way more versatile compared to other alchemists, not dependent on memorizing countless alchemical formulas and creating specific physical circles.
It also takes on an additional meaning when you consider matrix is the Latin word for womb. Izumi in more ways than one transmutes without a matrix.
@@DetectiveThursday Wasn't aware of that, thanks for bringing that up! That's what I love most about FMA:B, there's always some new connection, depth, or hidden meaning to uncover.
@@jonahcraven8669 some people would chalk this up to coincidence but I don't think it is especially considering she is one of the few that use the term matrix when most people say circle. also the creator makes a lot of references to real life alchemists and their works, more than most realize. the primary language of those documents was latin, with the vessel used to prepare alchemical formulas sometimes referred to as a matrix as well which is consistent with alchemy's obsession with birth life and death, the vessel is literally the place where the formula is born.
winry is doing an apprenticeship in rush valley, just not from the grumpy guy(but he'll let her visit)
Izumi wanted children, the brothers wanted their mother and they found each other. There's a tragic beauty in that.
Also in the manga, Izumi has a deep hatred of the military. It's hinted at in the anime, but never shown as clearly as it is in the manga.
Spoiler(?) There was also a hint in the manga or the other anime version that truth is an iron, he ironically removed Isume's reproductive organs as her main cost for reviving her dead child. The cost for the dead child being all possible future children. And maybe a little more, hence the blood.
@@andrewmarks2636 That is a little spoilery. You might want a better spoiler warning.
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Put some spaces and dots after spoiler to push it down
@@andrewmarks2636that's definitely a spoiler
To add to the punch, Izumi was about the same age as Trisha and her child would have been about the same age as the boys had he survived
You’re going to love when sig and Armstrong meet
INCREDIBLE VALOR, RESPECTABLE MUSCLES
I like to call FMAB the show of consequences !! It doesn’t let its characters act without providing a reaction
Fits well with the last line of the show, which is a direct quote from the original writer.
Ep 12 is very important ep, it gives you the 3 basic principles in alchemy (cycle of life is not equivalent exchange, it is another parallel rule or principle):
1. One is all, all is one.
2. Cycle of life is essential (Life is a cycle and Alchemy is life itself, hence circle [matrix] is essential to activate Alchemy)
3. Equivalent exchange.
That moment at the end always chokes me up. Izumi thumps them over the head for doing something so reckless and foolish, then holds and comforts them because she knows EXACTLY what they've been through. The desperation that led them to try, the horror of seeing the Truth and losing part (or all) of their bodies, and the heartbreak of how after all that desperation, pain, and horror, it still just doesn't work.
She's the only person they know who REALLY understands what they've been through and can REALLY honestly express sympathy for it.
Unbeknownst to them Mustang also now knows what it feels like, he wants Hughes back, and if he didn't have the Fullmetal to be an example of how it doesn't work, Mustang would be trying to do human transmuation to bring him back. It's still tempting because Mustang will be dealing with "but I'm more powerful and knowledgable than those boys were, I'd not fail!!!!". Find the right person and Mustang would try to bring then back to life. Hughes might still be enough if he weren't so focussed on finding his killer rather than how to transmute humans.
Izumi is hands down my favorite character in this show.
Heck, she may be my favorite anime character period!
I love teacher.
She's the father they never had 😂
She's just a badass, and one of my top 5 favorite characters in this entire show
"the only medication is to watch more" 😂
both versions of Izumi's backstory was sad on all levels but this version of when she tried to transmute a child using Alchemy was more heartbreaking
The women in this show are TOP TIER !!!!
You will learn why later. All you need to know now is that the civil war created a lot of disabled veterans. Rush Valley is rich in metals, so a combination of rich metal ore and disabled veterans led to an explosion of prosthetics in that city.
Hoenheim was an alchemist but he wasn’t a state alchemist. State alchemists work directly for the government. There are lots of alchemists and only a minority are state alchemists
it is interesting to see how good the arrangement of FMAB is. In ep 11, we have a woman who give birth successfully, in ep 12, we have a woman who cannnot, which explains why giving birth is so called a "miracle" in ep11.
For trisha's death, it doesnt get explained much in the anime but the boys are from the east, and grew up during the war that took place in the east. Plagues during wars are common place, and especially when all your doctors get recruited to the war effort, there isnt to care for the sick back home, so the sick sit and they multiply, and well... epidemic
In a video game I just started playing call "My Adventure Guild," one of the characters you can hire is Emily the Alchemist. When you meet here, she actually says "I am an alchemist who comes from a very long line of alchemists where alchemy has been passed down through my family of generations." I'm sure the character is a homage to Major Armstrong.
Yes I've been waiting for this she's my favourite character in this show😁
Hohenheim is my favorite character in the story 🥰
Sig and Izumi Curtis are one of my favorite couples in all media. Their quiet calm competence/support of each other is amazing! A true partnership.
Sig and Izumi are just a lovely dose of wholesomeness at a desperately needed time. Izumi is a personal favorite of mine, but i do love my no-nonsense ladies. They add a little extra salt on her backstory in the original by showing her gate to truth and it is adorned with baby names. l'll let slip that Hohenheim is a lot like Scar in the way that both have a burden they can't ignore. I might be a bit greedy here but i cant wait for the next few episodes!!!
Your reactions to izumi throwing up blood is just perfect 😂
Just a quick (if I am not too late) factoid:
The voice actors for Roy and Lust are married.
When you know, you know.
She's already reacted to Vox Machina, so she knows. In fact I think part of the reason she started FMAB was for Travis and Laura. Gonna be great when that part happens 😁
Quick fact: factoid means something that is commonly held to be true but is actually false, and not a quick bit of trivia as it is oftentimes erroneously used to mean.
@@lewstherintelamon244 went a long way to carry that water bucket mate. Fact or factoid. The meaning and the colloquialism of both are interchangeable. Factoid will often refer to something that is held as true and is partially false, which can be attested to the fact that I said they are married when they were in fact dating. So the factoid is that they are married. Once again, this is the internet and I shouldn't be on blast for using a term correctly just because you did not understand the context. Reply if you want, but mate, you're choosing a darn small hill to fight on.
@beatooze8025 Lot of words to just say "I can misuse words if I like"
@@lewstherintelamon244 quick fact: both uses are correct. Unless you wanna argue with Merriam-Webster.
Factoid:
1: an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print
2: a briefly stated and usually trivial fact
Those sneezes were comedic gold.
Awesome timing
when I was younger, Izumi was one of those strong female characters that Arakawa (the author) created. Now, twenty years later, she's one of my favourite characters and she resonates with me for many things. The scene where she hugs Al and Ed always make me cry.
God I love seeing people see this amazing show for the first time.
Ed and Izumi become the matrix my completing a circle with their arms and hands clapped together.
I like you singing Circle of Life and 2 seconds afterward still wondering what the "one is all, all is one" thing is about. Like- you got it, you solved the puzzle!
Had a huge smile on my fave when you sang "the circle of life", because it's essentially the lesson of the episode ehehe. ❤ Truly, this show has so many things you can take away from it, thats why I love to see people reacting to it.
I don't know what reaction you said that you are too hard on yourself but 100% true here. You weren't dumb. You were doing your job and being entertaining and saying what you are thinking while watching the show. And what you were thinking was on point. All the back pats are earned!
Izumi is one of my favorite anime characters, I just love that woman
My head canon about why Izumi laughs at Ed and Al's answer is more like a shocked laughter from her like she recognized these boys really understood what they were saying and didn't expect such a profound answer from some kids.
Welcome back! I hope you and your editors had a great vacation. I am so excited to see more FMA:B reactions!
My favorite teachers were the ones who had the reputation of being the hardest.
i love the depiction of married couples in this series
Yea, the new intros every 10 or so episodes tend to summarize the next 10.
Also, if it hasnt been mentioned: The lady who drew the manga, has a thing for big men. ^^
HAVING A THING FOR BIG MEN HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THE ARAKAWA FAMILY LINE FOR GENERATIONS!
I hate you because I totally read that in Armstrong’s voice.
Well done.
@@skribblestylealex would fit so well in jojo's
I don't remember the exact sequence of events but I believe from now on the show starts to pick up some serious steam so be ready.
Alchemy being a part of that flow of life really calls back to the revelation the revealed at the end of the Original Full Metal Alchemist show, those that remember it know
Remember that everyone can have a different view of their actions: everyone thinks they are the hero in the story. So you currently know how Ed saw his father, but that isn't what Grandma saw (so was drinking buddies with Hoenheim) nor was it what Trish saw (so married Hoenheim). What you have currently is what Ed knows about his dad, coloured by that perception. Ed's ark is coming to terms with the past and accepting it, even if not liking it. The past IS the past, and all the tears will not wash away a single line (as Omar Khyam put it in his poem).
As to FMA:B it is split roughly in three parts: the first part is mostly questions and very few answers, then there are still more questions, but a lot more answers, then right to the end mostly answers to questions that you may have had for 60 episodes. The early part assumes you know enough about the manga or watched FMA anime (that you won't be able to get now) so it doesn't take as long, meaning you resolve some things quicker. E.g. Al takes a long time obsessing over what 66 told him, because it has that time, but IMO for this it is better that it resolves a lot quicker. But some things, like "episode 4", you get kicked in the feels for her and for Hughes because it can't take the time to go subtle, but the earlier FMA you could spend more time to like them, the characters are more fleshed out, so it might hit deeper. It can be better or worse depending on personal preference, but the original FMA caught up to the Manga and then wrote its own story based on "so far..." around the 12-14 mark in FMA:B and FMA took about twice as long to get there. So if you do find a copy of FMA, out of its 56-ish episodes, something more than the first 20 are "spoilered" by having watched FMA:B.
"It sounds like the Force."
No, it's legally distinct!
Started watching you when you started The Expanse and I have been enjoying your journey through another life changing show for me. I absolutely love Full Metal, both versions have impacted my life, back in 2003 when I was just about in middle school which was a major time of development in life for a kid and I absolutely fell in love with it. I had already liked anime previously but FMA was my first jump into a 'real' anime, not that pokemon or DBZ aren't but they weren't seen as anime to kids in the west, they were just cartoons for most. I remember watching Speed Racer and Sailor moon when I was a much younger kid but they didn't stick with me an cause me to become a real fan of anime as a medium. Then when Brotherhood came out I didn't even know it was coming out, I stumbled upon it on a streaming site listed as Hagane no Renkinjutsushi and it had no thumbnail. Clicking on it was chance just to see what it was but when I did I about shit myself at a new FMA, then to find out that it was the faithful adaptation to the manga made it even better. I am glad you are enjoying your time so far through it, especially since this show means so much to me, there are so many strong emotional moments throughout and can't wait to see you experience this journey, especially as you eventually learn the truth hidden within the truth ;).
Izumi and Sig are so awesome! I love that she’s all fire and he’s water. It’s exactly how my wife and I are so I love them. 😂
izumi using alchemy without a transmutation circle and she does the clapping thing to do alchemy sounds familiar... well it should be xD
I believe Izumi laughs at their answer because "All is the world, and one is me" is a gross oversimplification, but theyre kids and they do get it
Their teacher is awesome =D
Izumi is one of my favourite characters in the entire show, she's awesome.
you’ve now met one half of the mommy waifu squad 😂
The war in Ishval is in the past, but we've seen that Bradley didn't care much about how many deaths occurred there and the circumstances surrounding those deaths.
Welcome back from the break and I hope you’re not sick anymore! 😁😁 Wishing my best to you and your editors
In episode 2 was said that one year plage came and she got it and become ill and died from it, it was sudden, not something she had when she was left with boys...
About matrix, that you become matrix what Izumi said it is bc you make circle when you clap your hands so you become the circle for alchemy and the symbols inside circle your mind provides, so you don't have to draw it.
Izumi has latina mom energy lol
With some of the stuff we get with black characters later, I wouldn’t be surprised if she is meant to be Latina
@@mranima748 I like that race is somewhat ambiguous since it's an alternate reality, makes it easy to see qualities in the people that we we'd see in others and ourselves
Finally a video from FMA jaja I was waiting for this a whole week jajaja🎉
5:06
So now that it happened, that moment in the opening is actually a reference to Hughes death. In the last moment he closes his eyes (possibly acceptance?) and it looks like he bursts into flames. We follow the embers as the camera moves up to Roy, and he suddenly turns to face the eruption in shock.
kinda morbid, but still a cool detail!
In the 2003 anime, the boys didn't go look for Izumi. Izumi and Sig found them and basically kidnapped them. But there was some build up and it was played as a mic drop; the show wanted the audience to think Sig was the teacher, not Izumi. That connects to the series creator, Arakawa. It's extremely rare for a woman to write manga, so the show made it seem unlikely that the teacher would be female as a parallel.
Sidenote: Wait until you meet Olivier...
That's... not what happened at all. She saved the town from the flood, but was then hospitalized in Resembool and cared for by the town doctors. Winry was there, too, as were Ed and Al, who asked her, in the hospital, to take them in as pupils. No one got "basically kidnapped".
@@downeastbeast6448 that's what happened when they met. But when the boys were going to rush valley, they were beaten up and tied up then brought to Izumi's home
@@Radild1 Yeah but the 03 verison also changes a ton about the way events are sequenced/play out compared to the manga/Brotherhood so there isn't really a point of comparison.
@@Vael221 Yeah, but that wasn't the original post. My post was expressing the differences between 2003 and Brotherhood.
23:05 Her mother had a case of being an Anime Mom, they all run the risk of dying
28:40 great theory crafting, cant wait to see where you take it and how much you do get close to or guess along the way.
NOT A SPOILER:
Not about this episode, but there's something important I wanted to clarify for your future watching. As Mustang said when we first met Scar, a lot of state alchemists were sent to Ishval during the war. This includes Mustang, Armstrong, and Kimblee. Mustang is even known as 'The Hero of Ishval'. This is also one of the reasons state alchemists are known as the dogs of the military; because they do the dirty work and do whatever they are commanded
FLG out here trying to find the Truth within the Truth deep diving into FMA 😂
That feeling of "no cold open?! 😳" lmao 😂
Actually it was mentioned in one of the previous episodes that their mother died from some plague that was widespread at the time.
You actually saw teacher and her husband in a previous episode before you knew much of her. It was one of the train station scenes. Episode 9. They walk behind winery.
11:57 You're not gonna say anything more correct than that, period.
On a side note: Like Nicholas Flemel, Hohenheim was a real world alchemist from the past.
They don't just come out and say it in the dub for whatever reason, but when Izumi committed human transmutation, she lost her uterus and parts of her entrails. For trying to bring her child back to life, she was given a body that could never have children.
One is All, All is One. That's a sign from the universe to pick up My Hero Academia when your viewing schedule allows.
I can't wait for her to get to the part where Sig and Armstrong meet.
There’s an OVA called The Tale of Teacher that shows Izumi’s alchemy training that you should watch at some point, although maybe not until episode 33 if you don’t want very minor spoilers for a location the boys go then
Spoilers ;)
Good to have you back!
"I hope it doesn't get so hot my brain starts melting." Looks like you're becoming sebacean (in case the reference doesn't quite land, Aeryn from Farscape).
Also, there's a scene from the '03 anime not in Brotherhood where Armstrong and Sig meet and have a flexing contest.
I recommend you give it a look, but whether you record it is up to you.
Oh wow. I was Like number 666. Wonder if that's an omen. Anyway, yeah. It's not a spoiler to say that when Ed says it's his dad's fault their mother died, he wasn't being literal. They mentioned in an earlier episode that their mother simply got ill from a disease that swept through after their dad left. It's just his vengeful feelings toward his dad who wasn't there to care for their mother in her time of need that made him say it was his fault. Basically that it was his responsibility to protect her and he wasn't there to do so.
“Did they have to keep Hughes?” Well Angela, you must notice now that the OP shifts to Roy right after with flames behind him… it foreshadows how his personal burden will cost him his best friend.
So, if I’m not mistaken, in Japanese pronouns aren’t gendered the way we perceive them; thus, Sig coming out with a bloody knife kind of invites us the audience to think that’s Teacher. Both he *and* Izumi have subversive traits which catch us off guard at a first meeting; ironically the brothers know this but we’ll, presentation of storytelling…
Fun fact, but this point in the story is where the manga presented *all* the Elric bros. Backstory up to this point. This includes, in relative order:
* Trisha Elric dying, and them resolving to learn Human Transmutation.
* Meeting Izumi and training with her.
* Losing their bodies to the Truth.
* Ed preparing for the Exam; incidentally this is when we first see Bradley in action as a result (not earlier), so up until then we’ve not seen his absurd combat ability even in just drawing his sword unseen…
There’s some subplots that were cut for time so they could progress the story at a more brisk pace, without having to rush the stuff that’s needed to tell the main story. You’re not losing anything essential thankfully…
You’ll learn more about Dad, eventually… Though one thing, Izumi didn’t say he’s a *State* Alchemist, only an alchemist.
On Mom… It’s stated that the Ishvalan War - which lasted seven years and ended before Ed became Fullmetal, but most of it was the Eastern Conflict before Bradley signed the order - brought a lot of strife and Ed was able to feign that he lost his limbs that way. And wars can bring diseases… I think this is just a theory, but people have posited that Trisha caught something she’s got no protection against and it killed her. Ed’s not blaming his father for her death from a thorough or rational place, he hates him for being gone and thinks he could have saved her… which, given Hohenheim is supposedly very gifted *might* be true. It’s really more about Edward’s I’ll feelings and his father is understandably an easy target for blame.
Oh thank god. I was worried after a week with no FLG watching FMA. 😁
it's worth noting what we see of hoenheim leaving is specifically from Ed's POV
5:30 😂😂😂 intense intro music ending
Theres alot lf great episodes in fmab, its hard for me to rank any of them, but this is one of my absolute favorites. I love this way of looking at the world
You can start to see it in this episode, but the boys alchemy echos a lot of the flavorful styles that Izumi uses. They both create fists and hands when they shift the ground.
We don't see other people using that kind of alchemy often, but they tend to use different styles over the same motion when they do. Just figured I would point it out now, since we see a teacher and student doing similar things.
I also find it really interesting that the first thing Izumi teaches them is supposed to get the idea across that death is a part of the flow. She tried to set that up as the basis of their understanding, so they would never try to repeat her mistake.
She just didn't quite realize that they were already on that path. I don't think anything short of walking through her mistake and consequences directly would have any chance of stopping them, but that is such a taboo and a tender subject it isn't something you would just throw out there.
Even though FMA isn't my favorite anime of all time or anything I'm a sucker for the mentor trope when it comes to characters and Izumi is so fuckin' cool.
When I first got here, I thought Izumi was amazing. I can't remember what I thought going into the episode, though. She was definitely a great surprise, and is an uncontested fan favorite character.
Regarding their mom, it was mentioned in Episode 2 that an epidemic was sweeping through the region, and that's what their mom was one of the many deaths that resulted. If you're paying close attention to dates and other mentioned time frames, you'll notice this corresponded to the war in Ishval. Rosembool is in the eastern region of the country and shown on maps to be not all that far from Ishval (blink and you miss it, but you can see this in episode 5 when getting the backstory regarding Ishval, with the animation implying that the conflict probably reached the countryside near Rosembool). It's more explicit in the manga, but the amount of death in the extermination created a perfect breeding ground for disease, hence an epidemic. This also makes what Ed's says to the Fuehrer during his State Alchemist examination technically true; when his automail arm is mentioned he said, "It happened in the eastern conflict".
18:50 Bless! Bless!
Based on your Patreon you’ve already seen the new opening to the show. New openings are pretty typical in anime especially longer running ones. While nowadays anime is split into seasons with each season having a new opening and ending song(sometimes even more than one of each), anime especially shonen anime, back then were more so split into story arcs with each arc having its own name and each arc will have a new opening and ending to go along with it(nowadays anime is still split into arcs just that each new season is a new arc). So yea now you can discover a bunch of anime music to jam out to if you watch more anime.
My image of Izumi and who she turned out to be were almost an exact match.
It never even occured to me that Ed and Al’s teacher could be evil, but since they were so scared of her, I assumed she would be tough.
just to kinda solidify your understanding without spoiling, the alchemists who've seen truth ended up with a widened understanding of alchemy. it's not so much that "only" they have "a matrix" inside, but that they learned how to use it for alchemy.
it's like in avatar the last airbender, where someone could suddenly be taught how to bend elements.
also though you called it a farce, to realise one is all, and all is one, as far as i know that does come from historical alchemy. they were basically trying to do science without having discovered the tools for science just yet. in the context of the show, where it's pretty much a very valid expression of science, "all is one, and one is all" is a basic truth of the universe hypothesized by alchemy, and confirmed by actual science. all the way to carl sagan - we're a way for the universe to know itself.
Something that isn’t clear is that the show is split into 5 “seasons” each one with a different intro that relates to the content, so hughes doesnt return in the intro
Winry did get an apprenticeship, just with someone else the old man recommended her too.