Jul5
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood – 64 [END]
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POWUH: iLurker with 1 comments
This is why I keep returning to this place. I can not believe I missed so many posts since the last time!
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Thanks for the visit! ^^;
POWUH: iLurker with 1 comments
A well written review of the overall FMA: Brotherhood. Yes! It was a good show and the characters are very lovable yet interesting.
I wonder what will the movie be showcasing? I hope that its something we does not expect. Anyhow, it’s a pleasure reading your the writing on FMA.
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Thanks. I speculate that it would be more details on the brothers’ journey towards east and west. Let’s see when it comes out.
POWUH: iLurker with 7 comments
WOW.
Typically you expect hair growth to show ow much time has passed.
but Mustang just grew a mustache (haha! (didnt notice that in the manga)
and hawkeye goodthing she cut her hair.
POWUH: iLurker with 3 comments
Ya i just noticed the porno stash XD, he looks cooler in the manga without the hat and combed back hair
I can’t believe he used the stone to get his sight back, wonder what Ed, and Al would have said.
It be better if he had Hawkeye be his eyes. ;P
POWUH: iLurker with 1 comments
Well, he does say that he doesn’t want them to know. So even he knows that they’d kill him.
It’s symbolic. He lost his sight for the future, now he regained it. The Ishbalan souls helped him so he could help them.
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
@ Ultimate Tempura from the North, that was such a troll towards Mustang. There was no mustache in manga but yeah, hawkeye did cut her hair. It’s a shame seriously, when she herself liked her hair long… :/
@ EvoIce, That is what I exactly thought while following manga that Hawkeye would be his eyes but being from an army family I know that such disabilities causes retirement because unless you are fit for the job you can’t continue. I personally didn’t like what he did but if you think from the POV of working towards betterment of Ishbal and Amestris, who else could’ve been a good Fuhrer? Not Grumman for sure.
@ Shad_Phoenix, Yeah, that is the reason I didn’t go nuts over what he did because he was a grey-hero from the beginning. However the situation is, at least he’s done it for the right choices rather than vice versa.
POWUH: Beginner (20-35) with 26 comments
no bad thing i wish she had kept her long hair! It looked a lot better! that aside, Ed n winry have kids = Awesomeness! ^_^ Awesome series and awesome ending. I got tears of joy when i finished seeing it! ^_^ XD
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Hehee. Same here. It was a very satisfying ending indeed! Been rooting for Ed and Winry from the beginning and it was nice seeing them all together and happy. ^^;
POWUH: iLurker with 1 comments
lol “Happy endings are nice, aren’t they ^^;” is still a spoiler. ^^
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
LOL! I couldn’t help it. ^^;
POWUH: iLurker with 17 comments
Pursuant to a really stupid Wikipedia argument (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_%28illusion%29), I’m curious: was Winry & Ed only visually presented as married (as in the manga) or are they actually stated to be married/husband and wife/etc.?
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
I won’t compare Maya from Hinduism to a married life because the former actually talks about something that makes up the physical world which is just an illusion while the afterlife is what is real. According to them, “Dunya tou mayaa hai” (world is an illusion) so don’t waste it on acquiring money and go on the hedonistic path rather meaningfully, marriage is a very tiny bit of Maya thought.
If you ask for my opinion, I remember Hohenheim marrying Trisha but the brothers took their mother’s name (Elric). I think Ed would do the same, marrying Winry because he loves her so much and they are practically married already.
PS: You just gave me material for my next post on Occult Academy though! xD
POWUH: iLurker with 17 comments
Heh. Looking back, it seems like I seriously got my wires crossed.
That Wikipedia link was meant for my comment on some blog post which thought the Occult Academy’s “Maya” might be a reference to the Indoamerican Maya, and I thought it was much much more likely to be the Asian religious term that I linked.
What I *actually* meant to link in my above FMA comment was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Edward_Elric#Manga_Final_Chapter_-_Ed_and_Winry (which is the stupid argument I was referring to – how the editors think we can’t describe Winry as Ed’s wife because it’s never written).
Hoo boy. Curious brainfart.
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
LOL! Happens to the best of us, gwern!
I checked out the comments and seriously, I don’t understand why would Ed wear a ring if not only to show to the world that he’s married. If you see closely, Winry’s ring finger is hidden so she could’ve been just wearing it. Also, knowing Ed and how he is, he would never wear “bling” unless ultimately necessary. Sometimes wiki editors are just stupid… :/
POWUH: iLurker with 4 comments
Any thoughts on the ‘growth’ of Ed? I was always under the impression that his height didn’t change at all during the series (flashbacks of when he was a kid aside of course).
BTW I love the 2nd pic you have in this review, it’s great!
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
I started noticing the growth since the 20th episode in which Winry commented over his broad shoulders (at that time his height was almost an inch’s difference from her). Though, in episode 46 after fighting Kimblee and transforming his lifeform to heal himself, he did grow finally taller than Winry. I fangirl squeed after this episode because he was literally looking down at her while she worried over him and Al.
Thanks for the compliment! <3
POWUH: iLurker with 1 comments
Ed’s been steadily growing throughout the series (it’s more obvious in the manga) You can see how much he’s grown when you compare the beginning of the story to the arch after the Winry/Scar incident and then in the Briggs arch even taller. Finally see a more obvious visual hint when he’s taller than Winry in episode 46, and of course at the very end he’s very tall ^^
You can also see him physically maturing in more ways than just his height. His build, his shoulders, the shape of the face and jaw…
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
@ I would definitely agree with all your observations. I seriously had fun watching Ed and Al grow into men who would do anything to save mankind. Heroic pretty much suites them. ^^;
POWUH: iLurker with 16 comments
I agree. I prefer the real happy ending over the first anime’s bittersweet ending. (:
POWUH: iLurker with 2 comments
So true, I have to agree. The first series just pales in comparison compared to Brotherhood.
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Agree with the both of you. Happy endings are always awesomer than the sad ones… ^^;
POWUH: iLurker with 16 comments
Oh, a little fun fact: if you watch the first anime again, you can see that Bones already had some idea with what Arakawa was going to do in the manga. Some small plot points are pretty similar (like Roy losing one eye while he goes blind in the manga/Brotherhood, Hohenheim being immortal, Ling making a cameo in episode 15 with Greed’s glasses etc.)
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Good facts. I plan to marathon the old and new one weekend. Hopefully I’ll get time soon to enjoy this again! ^^;
POWUH: Beginner (20-35) with 33 comments
Here’s to hoping that the movie will be a big budget animation about the Ishbal War.
That’d be amazing.
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Wouldn’t that be kinda grim? Because so many people died and it’s been a bad experience for all of the ones who participated in it. I’d love to see the epilogue part of the manga in the movie though.
POWUH: iLurker with 2 comments
wow u have written such a nice review.man awes the whole episode ,
i was searching for the last pic i wanted to see it..
also the last lines of ed,did.nt knew where to searchfor..
really thanks..
once again the review is awesome ,out of the world.. i like FMA. 😉 😉
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Aww, you are welcome and thank youuu! <333 :love:
POWUH: iLurker with 2 comments
omg, I thought Ed looked taller in episode 46 as well, but I thought was just because of the way the scene was angled. I’m so happy that Ed didn’t stay his short stature even at 18! Btw, did anyone else realize how good looking Al and especially Ed were in the last episode? Hubba Hubba!
I gotta say that the last 15 episodes or so were just stellar. Every twist and turn in the plot was surprising and captivating. [spoiler] Everything with the Madam, Selim, Radio Central, and the coup d’etat was just too much. I don’t know about anyone else, but I LOVE fma: brotherhood so much more than the original fma series. The plot was more interesting, happy endings were ample, and it was just great, great, great, great! so happy…
How did everyone else feel about this series compared to the original one?
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
You and me both, Tanisha! It was awesome seeing the two grow up to be such nice young men, even bishie at that! :4:
This anime to me will be one of the best out there with a very satisfying and happy end (I’m a sucker for happy endings). Everything was great both the good and bad characters.
It has been an awesome journey and this one would be very dear to my heart.
POWUH: iLurker with 2 comments
After watching the first fma anime back in 2007/08, and having just finished brotherhood, i can really say i enjoyed both versions of the anime. i never read the manga, but i think the first anime (which didnt follow the manga in the end) depicted the earlier eps better i.e. there was more background stuff + scenes such as nina’s death were more emotional, but in terms of storyline, brotherhood’s story was more interesting (the ending was EPIC!). Maybe cos i hadn’t seen fma in a while, it took me a while to like brotherhood. but brotherhood’s ending was definately much more fulfilling, and yay to ed and winry 🙂
thanks for the review!
POWUH: iLurker with 1 comments
Friend of mine recommend me to visit your site, I found the informations I looked for . Thank you very much
POWUH: iLurker with 1 comments
I’m so glad I found this specific page.
I always get this sad feeling when an anime series finally comes to an end and FMA:B was no exception. Still after the last sentence, I kept looking at the credits, hoping for more.
I usually have a hard time “getting over” the last episode of an anime and therefore usually start on a new one to “get going”. I might lie around and watch part of the end again trying to “fill my heart”, but it’s never really sufficient – but I guess all I need to do is read some thoughts of other people. I share a lot of the opinions on this page and I couldn’t agree more about Mustang’s (CHIKUSHO!!!) mustache xD
Thank you so much for the post – it was relieving.
Oh, and as many others, I really did hope for a Mustang > Riza thing 😛 But I guess it might happen in the movie 🙂
POWUH: iLurker with 1 comments
dont know if anyone noticed, but in episode 9 wen winry spots armstrong and shouts his name al n eds teacher and her husband pass by her
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Yeah, I saw that. They were traveling towards the norther region at that timeline. :3
POWUH: iLurker with 1 comments
After two years it has been a while since I watched it (after finishing it). Thinking about watching all seasons and finish it again just for the fun of it, seeing I miss the show.