

Fortunately for the brothers, who were not in great shape at this point, Wrath was a bit inexperienced, and foolishly merged himself with Sloth. Wrath killed Lust and headed off to find Sloth. Lust is easily destroyed though, as Wrath found her locket and used it to stop her on the transmutation circle. Sloth freed herself from the circle, and while Ed chased Sloth, who was now controlling Al's body from the inside, Wrath and Lust squared off. More and more it became clear that the brothers would not win this battle so easily, especially with Al helping out the Homunculus. Lust held her at bay while Ed went to get the box, but Wrath was waiting outside, and decided to absorb the box into himself so Ed couldn't get it back. The deal was almost done, when Al in his infinite wisdom decided that he was going to save the homunculus, so he threw the box containing a piece of his mother out the window, thus freeing Sloth. Lust had drawn a sealing transmutation circle with her claws, so it could not be destroyed, and Ed lured Sloth into it. He reveals the pieces of his mother's corpse that he dug up in Rizenbul, stunning Sloth, and giving him a chance to seal her forever. He tries to convince Al that the Homunculus is not their mother, and not to be trusted, but Al is pretty sure that it'll be fine. This anime could look and sound like crap and still be worth watching.#16 - Sealing the Homunculus Season 1 - Episode 47 - Aired Įd discovers Sloth and Al at Tucker's research lab. It's definitely there and fitting, just not memorable. Being a musician, I find it odd that I don't remember any of the music. Concerning the Technical aspects once more, the animation is great where it counts (where there's action).

Friendship is the greatest form of love, and the one between the Alric Brothers is perhaps the greatest friendship in all of anime. It may seem odd for an anime centered around some teenage boys to have no sexual connotations whatsoever, but that'd just get in the way of the very strong emotions expressed in this anime.
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The series has enough fluff to get us through grim reality, but most of the time, it's really an opportunity to show how much heart many of the characters possess. They seem proverbial, as though the Brothers Grimm were revived to create some of these characters. Anyone we meet to whom a great misery befalls is so uniquely focused and blindly determined that the mechanics of his/her devastation become very clear. Some people may call FMA needlessly dark for a children's anime, but rather it's brutally honest. We're told about the principle of equivalent trade, which is yin yang in other words, but we get much more than this taoist tidbit. It's a continuous narrative, unlike that Cowboy Bebop crap. We are as blind to this mystery as the brothers and it's unnerving to stop watching, knowing that unseen forces may encounter our heroes at any time. But amidst all this is a very pervasive mystery to which no one is safe. Fellow soldiers we meet rise in ranks and there are casualties. This bond may be broken at any time, mainly because FMA takes place in a very dynamic world. It's always centered (unless if very appropriately not centered) on the two Alric Brothers who share perhaps the strongest bond in all of anime. In FMA, you have multiple reasons to continue each episode but the focus is not lost. 24 is the only thing in recent memory that has a comparable flow and that's only because that show supposedly happens in real time. I borrowed a disc anyways and watched it.

Even the name "Fullmetal Alchemist" seems completely avoidable with magic being the status quo in much of anime. Two brothers grieving over their deceased mother lose everything when they commit the ultimate forbidden act in alchemy, human transmutation. The characters seemed to be cookie-cutter determined types out to save the world. Watch the latest Anime, Japanese Anime Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 Episode 35 with English subtitle on iQiyi iQ.com. A friend raved about this anime, so I took a cursory scroll through it and found nothing worth noting.
