What's funny is how universally beloved Olivier Armstrong is when a key character feature of her is that she hates her brother (another universally beloved character) because he didn't commit enough war crimes.
@@nachofilament294 they don't really go into it in the show but she's actually critical of him for the same reason he's critical of himself. He broke down in Ishval and didn't stand for his beliefs. If he had defied the military and fought against the genocide, Olivier would respect his comviction.
Yeah what the other guy said is the case, Olivier isn’t mad he didn’t follow orders, she’s mad that he hid and ran from what he thought was detestable instead of standing by his beliefs on the matter and protesting the extermination.
It's definitely left more implied but, "Doing nothing when you could/should have done something" (aka the sin of sloth) is very much where Alex's weakness/regret lies and is what Olivier dislikes about him.
Marcoh deserved this W. No one would have ever thought Marcoh, the same regretful, submissive dude who has been running or held captive all season to be the one to do that to Envy? Zampano the real MVP for helping to pull off that scam.
You might have noticed how Scar's attitude has changed with Marcoh, he has respect and understanding for the man who kill his people, when he defeated Envy Scar recognized Marcoh's saying " WE did it, WE won". Also he personally picked Marcoh as his companion in his travel because both are in the same path of saving Ishval.
Scar and Marcoh are both on a path of atonement and redemption, if only for different reasons. Marcoh because of his deep guilt over what he did creating the philosopher stones and what they were later used for. Scar because he's realizing that his need for vengeance violates his own faith and seeing the results of the pain his hatred caused others. Both of them are continuing to grow better and watching it happen is just one of the reasons this series is so good.
This is never confirmed, but I believe Olivier is mad at her brother specifically for not staying in Ishval to protest their actions, something he himself regrets terribly. I think the way she said it in front of all the officers there was to mask the *reason* for why she was mad at him about Ishval; could be interpreted as supporting the war to eavesdroppers.
I think she shares a bit with Kimbley in that regard. She respects people who will stand strong for their beliefs, regardless of what they are. When Alex had a chance to do so, he broke and ran away.
@@downeastbeast6448 My interpretation was always that she is very utilitarian about the war, but that she hates cowardice. So whether he stayed and continued to act as a good soldier, or he had stayed and stood his ground and fought against the genocide, she would have been proud of him. But because he gave up and ran in her eyes, she has no respect for him.
Funny how most think that Kimblee is attacking Briggs or using Drachma as a distraction, when in reality, he simply knows he has no chance to kill the soldiers of Briggs, so he'll just use their strength as a tool to kill Drachmans.
As long as he spills enough blood within the vicinity of the “point” on the map (which is a huge area, given the size of Amestris) it doesn’t matter whose it is. The original plan was to annihilate Briggs but that just wasn’t going to work out, so he opted for a more lateral-minded solution.
Oliver bullying Alexander is always funny.......on the first watch I completely forgot about his little sister lifting a piano but watching her lord over him is absolutely hilarious, completely not adhering to outward looks. Definitely one of my favorite surprises of the whole series
Friendly reminder that Marcoh’s research team were converted into the one Stone that Kimblee is still holding onto; the one he used to grievously wound Ed after he knocked the one made of Ishvalans during the War of Extermination (that was used against them) into the mines where Heinkel found it…
@The_real_Arovor Kind of, the cold winters make the asphalt shrink, then it stretches when it gets warmer, causing a lot of potholes. Summer is the season of road construction here. 😂
It's crazy this show has developed to the point where one of THE lead characters (Ed) can go MIA for two whole episodes, and you don't even miss him, lol.
I love Marcoh when he gets serious and uses his smarts and experience to turn the tables. Prides child form is essentially a skin bag that functions like a mobile flask and there is a tunnel under Bradley's house that connects to the country wide transmutation circle. So he can extend his shadows along any point in the tunnel but no farther unless he physically travels there. Greed isn't good, but he isn't all bad either
So in the Manga this is where Hohenheim finds out about Al's body so when they see each other the interaction goes. Alphone: Dad!? Hohenheim: My Antique Armour!?
There's one "season" (hence one more opening song) left after this one 😊 the current song/intro is my favourite, but the last one is pretty dope and nostalgic. You'll get there by Ep. 51 if I remember correctly.
Scar physically turning his back on Yoki at 14:35 never fails to send my sides into orbit. The long pause before he turns, as if he was genuinely considering his options for a second.
You know, I love that even though Bradley looms the fact she's a hostage over her head, he isn't abusive towards Riza, even when she gave a blunt opinion. If he was more on the nose like Gluttony or Sloth, he'd fly into a fit of rage, but no, he stays calm and responds civilly.
18:40 The thing you gotta remember here is that Olivier is a hard-core militarist who believes in duty & power above all(most) else; so she always viewed Alex's actions in Ishval as him abandoning his duty and running away (especially at the time, not knowing everything she knows now.) That's why she's always bad mouthing her brother from the start (like saying she doesn't trust his judgement when she rips up the introduction letter.) Knowing what she knows now, it's probably an act to keep up her old appearances.
I'm not sure... I've read comments stating that she's actually upset with him due to him just accepting to be removed from duty (when seen unable to continue killing) instead of fighting for what he thought was right, protecting the Ishvalans... Does this mean he should have deserted or what? I don't know, the series doesn't clarify that... and it doesn't say what she would have done if SHE would have been sent to Ishval to basically commit genocide.
@@Vergilius314 I don't know. Maybe she really didn't know exactly what happened there and is really upset because he didn't just follow the orders? But at this point of the show she's even killed a higher-up! That seems unlikely. The whole thing seems to me just a plot device for "Alex has got to regain her trust somehow".
I mean Olivier herself when faced with a military senior officer planning to sacrifice her men and her country's people.......just killed him and buried him under 'her' fort It's the fact that Alex would rather meekly back away than try that irks her. _That_ is the heart of Alex's arc...Mustang offers him an out, and Alex's response is essentially 'Not this time. Not again. It's time I stood up.'
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the thing about Olivier's feelings about Alex is that she very much means what she says. she has no tolerance for weakness. i firmly believe she'd sing his praises if he completely switched sides and started fighting along the Ishvallans, at least then he'd be fighting for something he believed in. but that's not what Alex did in Ishval. he shut down, and got sent home.
She does care for her brother, but what she perceives as his cowardice infuriates her. Probably a lot of family honour-related feelings there, mixed with feeling he was a hypocrite for running…
What you see with the previous homunculii is their stone crumbling when it runs out of power to keep regenerating them. Marcoh destroyed Envy's stone directly without actually harming Envy, so the stone is gone but the inner essence of Envy remains. It can be extrapolated that the other homunculii have a similar "true form" like Envy, and we just never see it.
Seeing Envy's true form after Marco uses the Transmutation circle tattooed into his hand really was shocking on all levels but it was funny to see how non-threatening Envy was now that he is that tiny lizard thing
On Pride's containment: As far as I understand it, Pride has two containers: The tunnel, and the body we call Selim. Pride can talk to Hawkeye in Central because Selim is in Central. It seems like Pride's shadow has some limited ability to go outside the container that is Selim Bradley, but there is probably (?) a limit to how far out he can go. Is it the limits of the literal shadow of Selim? On the other hand, when he's in the tunnel he is very strictly contained in that tunnel.
My understanding of Selim is he is confined to the edge of the tunnel because the border of the country is the end of his flask and the tunnel marks the border. But that's just my speculation based on observation and context.
Olivier always struck me as someone of strong moral conviction. and she respects others who also have strong moral convictions. Kind of like when Edward stood up to her and repeatedly said he couldn't tell her certain things. So for her, someone who goes against their own moral convictions in the name of "orders" would be a huge disgrace. And that's why she doesn't care for Mustang much nor her own brother. When she said her brother failed the country, it meant something different than how the other General took it.
Marcoh was just using his normal Alchemy. The same knowledge he used to _make_ Philosopher Stones. No Alkahestry involved. He is an accomplished Alchemist in his own right. It's just that he can't use instant alchemy and his prepared circle isn't very versatile. But he doesn't need help from a little girl to do what he does. Don't discredit his accomplishments.
The "pointer fingers" at 9:58 is a running gag amongst quite a few anime series. I haven't exactly traced it's history haha. But those fingers are generally a shock for the brown-eye. It's an interesting "bedroom tactic."
I knew you wouldn't like the reunion between the Armstrongs, they both have personality qualities you like, but it comes with opinions you won't like especially opinions they have for each other.
Am I the only one thinking Kimblee's standing in the middle of the blood crest like that might look cool, but it's ultra stupid? He might have been shot by Briggs soldiers still bombarding the area, or they may have seen him and considered him a traitor working with Dracma! (Well, he's actually a traitor depending on how you watch things, lol)
Can't really compare the two. Zuko comes from the people guilty of exterminating, while Scar comes from those Exterminated. Zuko needed to face his own nation, while a nation of people needed to face what they did to Scar and his people.
21:55 IIRC the slug is Envy's original form, before they were given the stone; so theoretically, if they did that to say Bradly, he'd become a normal human again. Cause, like with Lust, it wasn't "the stone was destroyed so she was destroyed" it was "her body was destroyed so much that the stone got used up healing her, and then Roy kept burning."
@@pedanticperson1149 hmm, good point, I had forgotten about that. I guess Greed as the example then, as he's the other one we know for a fact started out human.
Scar giving Envy to Mai to bring it to the Emperor always sounded a stretch to me. Envy showed being dangerous even in this form. Alphonse needed more time to learn Alkahestry. Envy's philosopher's stone is very low in energy, Mai may not even be able to show the emperor the strange creature was immortal, and I guess its weak philosopher's stone can't be used to make the Emperor immortal.
I think one thing that the anime doesn't really do well unfortunately is reflect the full scale of the horrors of the Ishvalan war and the scope of Alex Armstrong. In the manga, and unfortunately not adapted to the anime, are scenes showing the critical role Alex played in complicity with Central's war crimes by trapping Ishvalan civilians for other State alchemists to massacre. There are also a bunch of manga scenes where the depth of his PTSD is shown, unfortunately these aren't in the anime as well.
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I’m confused. Why didn’t you instantly fall in love with General Armstrong and her bad ass-ness? 😢 She’s the best (by a slim margin. Sorry Izumi and Riza)
Kimblee's scheme with Drachma was honestly rather obvious when you think critically about it. Kimblee's working for the Homunculi, in other words Father, who has spent the last 400 some-odd years surgically and meticulously crafting an intricate geographic pattern of massive scale. He needs every. last. thing. to be in place when the time comes, and to say he's gone through great lengths to do that is the understatement of the year. What would introducing the chaos of an invasion and war to the mix be, other than utterly counterproductive to that goal? Worst case scenario, the extra mass bloodshed could screw up the country-wide transmutation circle. Kimblee only needs a bunch of people to die at Briggs and nowhere else. The transmutation circle doesn't care whose blood soaks into the ground at that location, the Drachman variety works just as well as any other.
Referring to the circle as ‘Amestrian’ is basically just them saying nation-wide. It’s a circle that covers the entirety Amestris, I’m pretty sure that’s all they meant
I kinda love the fact that the Homunculus and Bradley being very open to Hawkeye like that, where it's just basically like _"Yeah, WE know that YOU know who we are, we're just not gonna hide it any longer."_ and being very up front about it. Also a Homunculus like Bradley being capable of love despite being the embodiment of Wrath and not being fully human, I'd also say he's somewhat of a hybrid in a sense, because before Bradley become one he had a strong mind which pretty much allowed him to survive the process of becoming one in the first place when they did all those experiments. Although they are created from Father, nobody's been able to create a perfect Homunculus without a host body as some sort of artificial human from nothing as they've always needed a living body of something else in order to be created from a sacrifice as such with human transmutation as per the laws of equivalent exchange.
What's funny is how universally beloved Olivier Armstrong is when a key character feature of her is that she hates her brother (another universally beloved character) because he didn't commit enough war crimes.
@@nachofilament294 they don't really go into it in the show but she's actually critical of him for the same reason he's critical of himself. He broke down in Ishval and didn't stand for his beliefs. If he had defied the military and fought against the genocide, Olivier would respect his comviction.
Yeah what the other guy said is the case, Olivier isn’t mad he didn’t follow orders, she’s mad that he hid and ran from what he thought was detestable instead of standing by his beliefs on the matter and protesting the extermination.
It's definitely left more implied but, "Doing nothing when you could/should have done something" (aka the sin of sloth) is very much where Alex's weakness/regret lies and is what Olivier dislikes about him.
The character progression of Scar throughout the series is truly great.
Hohenheim wouldn't recognise Al, of course, but he _did_ recognise his own suit of armour.
@@mbpoblet Well, he's been at Pinako's house and there probably were photos of Alphonse's armor near to the one he took with him...
Haha yeah. This is something that they just cut from the show. Al saying "Dad??" and Hohenheim saying "My suit of armor??" when they meet each other.
Marcoh deserved this W.
No one would have ever thought Marcoh, the same regretful, submissive dude who has been running or held captive all season to be the one to do that to Envy?
Zampano the real MVP for helping to pull off that scam.
You might have noticed how Scar's attitude has changed with Marcoh, he has respect and understanding for the man who kill his people, when he defeated Envy Scar recognized Marcoh's saying " WE did it, WE won". Also he personally picked Marcoh as his companion in his travel because both are in the same path of saving Ishval.
Scar and Marcoh are both on a path of atonement and redemption, if only for different reasons. Marcoh because of his deep guilt over what he did creating the philosopher stones and what they were later used for. Scar because he's realizing that his need for vengeance violates his own faith and seeing the results of the pain his hatred caused others.
Both of them are continuing to grow better and watching it happen is just one of the reasons this series is so good.
This is never confirmed, but I believe Olivier is mad at her brother specifically for not staying in Ishval to protest their actions, something he himself regrets terribly. I think the way she said it in front of all the officers there was to mask the *reason* for why she was mad at him about Ishval; could be interpreted as supporting the war to eavesdroppers.
I think she shares a bit with Kimbley in that regard. She respects people who will stand strong for their beliefs, regardless of what they are. When Alex had a chance to do so, he broke and ran away.
@@downeastbeast6448 My interpretation was always that she is very utilitarian about the war, but that she hates cowardice. So whether he stayed and continued to act as a good soldier, or he had stayed and stood his ground and fought against the genocide, she would have been proud of him. But because he gave up and ran in her eyes, she has no respect for him.
Funny how most think that Kimblee is attacking Briggs or using Drachma as a distraction, when in reality, he simply knows he has no chance to kill the soldiers of Briggs, so he'll just use their strength as a tool to kill Drachmans.
As long as he spills enough blood within the vicinity of the “point” on the map (which is a huge area, given the size of Amestris) it doesn’t matter whose it is. The original plan was to annihilate Briggs but that just wasn’t going to work out, so he opted for a more lateral-minded solution.
@@masansr Pride suggested Kimblee this idea in the previous episode.
I thought thats quite obvious
its pretty genius solution it doesnt matter who wins in the end so long as someone dies
My orders were to carve a crest of blood, they didn't say whose blood
Oliver bullying Alexander is always funny.......on the first watch I completely forgot about his little sister lifting a piano but watching her lord over him is absolutely hilarious, completely not adhering to outward looks. Definitely one of my favorite surprises of the whole series
Friendly reminder that Marcoh’s research team were converted into the one Stone that Kimblee is still holding onto; the one he used to grievously wound Ed after he knocked the one made of Ishvalans during the War of Extermination (that was used against them) into the mines where Heinkel found it…
At the scene of Bido riding uder the car: "Oh youre brave. One pothole, squish"
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@The_real_Arovor Kind of, the cold winters make the asphalt shrink, then it stretches when it gets warmer, causing a lot of potholes. Summer is the season of road construction here. 😂
The big impassioned speech right before delivering a critical blow is one of my favorite anime tropes
It's crazy this show has developed to the point where one of THE lead characters (Ed) can go MIA for two whole episodes, and you don't even miss him, lol.
17:17 you’re not the only one missing Greed 😅
Envy getting the shit kicked out of them is a thing i always love to see
Hoenheim had one or two conversation with Pinako... So he were well aware of Al's condition
FM:AB has some amazing characters and writing. Easily one of my favourite stories of all time!
I love Marcoh when he gets serious and uses his smarts and experience to turn the tables. Prides child form is essentially a skin bag that functions like a mobile flask and there is a tunnel under Bradley's house that connects to the country wide transmutation circle. So he can extend his shadows along any point in the tunnel but no farther unless he physically travels there. Greed isn't good, but he isn't all bad either
So in the Manga this is where Hohenheim finds out about Al's body so when they see each other the interaction goes.
Alphone: Dad!?
Hohenheim: My Antique Armour!?
people sometimes forget that marcoh's a legit alchemist like ed and al ,he just needs to make a matrix which is not as mobile
I think a lot of people forget that Marcoh is basically what Tucker_wishes_he could be in terms of biological alchemy.
There's one "season" (hence one more opening song) left after this one 😊 the current song/intro is my favourite, but the last one is pretty dope and nostalgic. You'll get there by Ep. 51 if I remember correctly.
Scar physically turning his back on Yoki at 14:35 never fails to send my sides into orbit. The long pause before he turns, as if he was genuinely considering his options for a second.
You know, I love that even though Bradley looms the fact she's a hostage over her head, he isn't abusive towards Riza, even when she gave a blunt opinion. If he was more on the nose like Gluttony or Sloth, he'd fly into a fit of rage, but no, he stays calm and responds civilly.
hes really quite a polite and well-mannered man for being the living incarnation of Wrath
18:40 The thing you gotta remember here is that Olivier is a hard-core militarist who believes in duty & power above all(most) else; so she always viewed Alex's actions in Ishval as him abandoning his duty and running away (especially at the time, not knowing everything she knows now.) That's why she's always bad mouthing her brother from the start (like saying she doesn't trust his judgement when she rips up the introduction letter.) Knowing what she knows now, it's probably an act to keep up her old appearances.
I'm not sure... I've read comments stating that she's actually upset with him due to him just accepting to be removed from duty (when seen unable to continue killing) instead of fighting for what he thought was right, protecting the Ishvalans... Does this mean he should have deserted or what?
I don't know, the series doesn't clarify that... and it doesn't say what she would have done if SHE would have been sent to Ishval to basically commit genocide.
@@LegnaiaUnderground Yeah, it's somewhat ambiguous, but her disgust does seem to be at least in part genuine.
@@Vergilius314 When genocide-supporting high-command are roaming the halls, discretion is important.
@@Vergilius314 I don't know. Maybe she really didn't know exactly what happened there and is really upset because he didn't just follow the orders? But at this point of the show she's even killed a higher-up!
That seems unlikely.
The whole thing seems to me just a plot device for "Alex has got to regain her trust somehow".
I mean Olivier herself when faced with a military senior officer planning to sacrifice her men and her country's people.......just killed him and buried him under 'her' fort
It's the fact that Alex would rather meekly back away than try that irks her. _That_ is the heart of Alex's arc...Mustang offers him an out, and Alex's response is essentially 'Not this time. Not again. It's time I stood up.'
@6:48 OP 1 "Again" by YUI is Episodes 1-14.
OP 2 "Hologram" by Nico Touches the Walls is Episodes 15-26.
OP 3 "Golden Time Lover" by Sukima Switch is Episodes 27-38.
OP 4 "Period" by Chemistry is Episodes 39-50.
OP 5 "Rain" by SID is Episodes 51-62.
Envy getting DESTROYED will never get old for me.
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One of my favorite moments in the show. Tim Marcoh shows his hand
the thing about Olivier's feelings about Alex is that she very much means what she says. she has no tolerance for weakness. i firmly believe she'd sing his praises if he completely switched sides and started fighting along the Ishvallans, at least then he'd be fighting for something he believed in. but that's not what Alex did in Ishval. he shut down, and got sent home.
She does care for her brother, but what she perceives as his cowardice infuriates her. Probably a lot of family honour-related feelings there, mixed with feeling he was a hypocrite for running…
What you see with the previous homunculii is their stone crumbling when it runs out of power to keep regenerating them. Marcoh destroyed Envy's stone directly without actually harming Envy, so the stone is gone but the inner essence of Envy remains. It can be extrapolated that the other homunculii have a similar "true form" like Envy, and we just never see it.
Seeing Envy's true form after Marco uses the Transmutation circle tattooed into his hand really was shocking on all levels but it was funny to see how non-threatening Envy was now that he is that tiny lizard thing
Lol at the war with Drachma keeping Briggs busy cause I thought the samething too at 1st 😅😂...
4:44 Missed opportunity to insert a clip of Gordon Gecko (Michael Douglas) from Wall Street saying 'Greed is good.'
On Pride's containment:
As far as I understand it, Pride has two containers: The tunnel, and the body we call Selim. Pride can talk to Hawkeye in Central because Selim is in Central. It seems like Pride's shadow has some limited ability to go outside the container that is Selim Bradley, but there is probably (?) a limit to how far out he can go. Is it the limits of the literal shadow of Selim? On the other hand, when he's in the tunnel he is very strictly contained in that tunnel.
I think he can also move freely (without Selim) in Central.
My understanding of Selim is he is confined to the edge of the tunnel because the border of the country is the end of his flask and the tunnel marks the border. But that's just my speculation based on observation and context.
Father is the main humunculus. All the others were made from him by removing the sin from himself.
Olivier always struck me as someone of strong moral conviction. and she respects others who also have strong moral convictions. Kind of like when Edward stood up to her and repeatedly said he couldn't tell her certain things. So for her, someone who goes against their own moral convictions in the name of "orders" would be a huge disgrace. And that's why she doesn't care for Mustang much nor her own brother. When she said her brother failed the country, it meant something different than how the other General took it.
Marcoh was just using his normal Alchemy. The same knowledge he used to _make_ Philosopher Stones.
No Alkahestry involved. He is an accomplished Alchemist in his own right. It's just that he can't use instant alchemy and his prepared circle isn't very versatile.
But he doesn't need help from a little girl to do what he does. Don't discredit his accomplishments.
The "pointer fingers" at 9:58 is a running gag amongst quite a few anime series. I haven't exactly traced it's history haha. But those fingers are generally a shock for the brown-eye.
It's an interesting "bedroom tactic."
Its just an old children's game.
Basically, the Japanese version of purple nurple, noogie or a hurts donut.
Al really didnt know van since he left when he was just a baby
I knew you wouldn't like the reunion between the Armstrongs, they both have personality qualities you like, but it comes with opinions you won't like especially opinions they have for each other.
contained to the tunnels AND Central City.
the animation in this episode is freaking WILD
Ed, Al, Winry, and Pinako all come from RESEMBOOL
Am I the only one thinking Kimblee's standing in the middle of the blood crest like that might look cool, but it's ultra stupid?
He might have been shot by Briggs soldiers still bombarding the area, or they may have seen him and considered him a traitor working with Dracma! (Well, he's actually a traitor depending on how you watch things, lol)
We're in the endgame now.
I need more episodes per week!!!! Plz two is not enough jajaja😅
Sigh..... you set a high bar for finding my own crying dork 😊
2d envy is so cursed lmao
There will be one more opening "Rain". Pretty sad, but good :)
Scar's redemption arc is almost as good as Zuko in Avatar The Last Airbender.
Can't really compare the two. Zuko comes from the people guilty of exterminating, while Scar comes from those Exterminated. Zuko needed to face his own nation, while a nation of people needed to face what they did to Scar and his people.
@@jmsmys13ify Even so, Scar did pervert his own faith to justify being judge, jury and executioner. Something that his own people warned him about.
6:56 There's one more song
21:55 IIRC the slug is Envy's original form, before they were given the stone; so theoretically, if they did that to say Bradly, he'd become a normal human again.
Cause, like with Lust, it wasn't "the stone was destroyed so she was destroyed" it was "her body was destroyed so much that the stone got used up healing her, and then Roy kept burning."
Re: Bradley - Not sure about that one, he's a special case as he ages & the souls battled until there was only one left.
@@pedanticperson1149 hmm, good point, I had forgotten about that. I guess Greed as the example then, as he's the other one we know for a fact started out human.
@@pedanticperson1149 or perhaps it would be "wrath" controlling Bradly's now human body. As Envy still has the same personality.
7:00 it think there are two more changes.
Scar giving Envy to Mai to bring it to the Emperor always sounded a stretch to me. Envy showed being dangerous even in this form. Alphonse needed more time to learn Alkahestry. Envy's philosopher's stone is very low in energy, Mai may not even be able to show the emperor the strange creature was immortal, and I guess its weak philosopher's stone can't be used to make the Emperor immortal.
I think he used it as an excuse to get mei out of there, just in case they fail
I think one thing that the anime doesn't really do well unfortunately is reflect the full scale of the horrors of the Ishvalan war and the scope of Alex Armstrong. In the manga, and unfortunately not adapted to the anime, are scenes showing the critical role Alex played in complicity with Central's war crimes by trapping Ishvalan civilians for other State alchemists to massacre. There are also a bunch of manga scenes where the depth of his PTSD is shown, unfortunately these aren't in the anime as well.
Love this show =D
We get one more opening/ending song after this one!
And it is beautiful
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The little bean envy is now just boiled down to the piece soul that father separated from himself.
I’m confused. Why didn’t you instantly fall in love with General Armstrong and her bad ass-ness? 😢
She’s the best (by a slim margin. Sorry Izumi and Riza)
The boys are from resembool lol. In the Manga hohenhiem yells "my armor?!"
Kimblee's scheme with Drachma was honestly rather obvious when you think critically about it. Kimblee's working for the Homunculi, in other words Father, who has spent the last 400 some-odd years surgically and meticulously crafting an intricate geographic pattern of massive scale. He needs every. last. thing. to be in place when the time comes, and to say he's gone through great lengths to do that is the understatement of the year. What would introducing the chaos of an invasion and war to the mix be, other than utterly counterproductive to that goal? Worst case scenario, the extra mass bloodshed could screw up the country-wide transmutation circle. Kimblee only needs a bunch of people to die at Briggs and nowhere else. The transmutation circle doesn't care whose blood soaks into the ground at that location, the Drachman variety works just as well as any other.
Referring to the circle as ‘Amestrian’ is basically just them saying nation-wide. It’s a circle that covers the entirety Amestris, I’m pretty sure that’s all they meant
It tickles me when you say ulchemist instead of alchemist
100%, scar and Marco coming so far that now instead of marco basically being a hostage, theyre willingly going together as comrades. Its so GOOD
“Tim is Him!”
I believe we get one more op and ed change iirc
I kinda love the fact that the Homunculus and Bradley being very open to Hawkeye like that, where it's just basically like _"Yeah, WE know that YOU know who we are, we're just not gonna hide it any longer."_ and being very up front about it. Also a Homunculus like Bradley being capable of love despite being the embodiment of Wrath and not being fully human, I'd also say he's somewhat of a hybrid in a sense, because before Bradley become one he had a strong mind which pretty much allowed him to survive the process of becoming one in the first place when they did all those experiments. Although they are created from Father, nobody's been able to create a perfect Homunculus without a host body as some sort of artificial human from nothing as they've always needed a living body of something else in order to be created from a sacrifice as such with human transmutation as per the laws of equivalent exchange.