Episode 4, "An Alchemist’s Distress"
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood – Episode 46 Review
Episode 46, "The Creeping Shadow"
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Synopsis: Time passes, and the time of the Risembool Sheep Festival arrives. A military train is at the train station, and Miles is among soldiers there. Winry is escorted secretly back to her house, where she encounters Edward, Greedling, and the chimeras. Winry tells Ed that Alphonse is in the train, but Ed decides is safer not to go visit him. Winry adjusts Ed’s automail and tells him about Lior’s recovery and that she knows about "the promised day". Ed and his group leave at night for Kanama, to meet up with Hohenheim. In Lior, Scar and Marcoh meet with the other chimeras, and they all meet up with a group of Ishbalans. More time passes, and in the East, the training excercises between the East and the North are being overseen by Fuhrer King Bradley. This concerns General Grumman and Miles who try to come up with a plan to get rid of him. Alphonse wanders out of the train and is chased by Gluttony and Pride, who eventually capture him. In Central, Roy pays Olivier a visit and passes along what he knows about Selim. General Hakuro informs Bradley of the information he gathered about a coup attempt about to be made with the help of the Ishbalans, leading Bradley to take a train home, which is destroyed by soldiers working for Mustang and Grumman. In Central, Olivier considers making her move, but Father arrives with Sloth.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood – Episode 03 ENGLISH DUB Review
Episode 3, "The Town of Heresy"
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Synopsis: In the town of Lior, the Elric brothers learn of a preist named Cornello who can perform "miracles". Investigating, they discover that the man is a fraud, using what seems to be a Philosopher’s Stone to bypass the law of Equivalent Exchange. Confronting him, they also expose his deception to the townspeople. Edward defeats Cornello, who goes into hiding, only to be killed by two mysterious figures.
Comments:
This was probably the best episode of the Brotherhood dub yet. I think it’s probably because it was about as mediocre as I expected it with no additional surprises of failure. Everyone pretty much sounded exactly the same in their roles as they did in the Lior bit from the first series. It’s not as though that’s glowing praise, but it was tolerable, at least.
Dragon Ball Kai – Episode 43 Review
Episode 43, "Son Goku vs Freeza! The Curtain Opens on the Super Decisive Battle!"
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Synopsis: Piccolo, Kuririn, and Gohan distance themselves as Goku and Freeza begin their battle. Bulma, meanwhile, encounters a group of frogs. Goku is able to deflect powerful attacks from Freeza, which impresses the tyrant. Kaio tells Goku’s friends that he’s putting up a decent fight. Freeza blasts open a hole into the planet and stirs up lava. Goku is pushed into the sea and tries getting Freeza from underwater, distracting him, and then kicking him. Freeze uses telepathy and sends large rocks at Goku, but he destroys them. Freeza than takes a huge chunk of rock and throws it at Goku, who is able to break through it. Freeza binds Goku in a ki bubble and hits him around, then blasts it. Goku survives this, however, and the two face off again.
Dragon Ball Kai – Episode 42 Review
Episode 42, "Defeat Freeza, Son Goku! The Proud Vegeta’s Tears"
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Synopsis: As Gohan, Piccolo, and Kuririn look on, Freeza continues to torture Vegeta. Goku detects where all of their ki are and flies to where they are. Goku tells everyone he will take on Freeza himself. After a short exchange where Goku easily deflects Freeza’s beams, Vegeta laughs and insists that Goku is a Super Saiyan of legend. Fed up, Freeza fires a beam through Vegeta’s heart. Dying, Vegeta tells Goku that Freeza killed their race, and with his pride wounded, begs him to bring an end to Freeza by his Saiyan hand. Goku buries Vegeta and declares he will defeat Freeza.
Dragon Ball Kai – Episode 41 Review
Episode 41, "The Moment We’ve Waited For! Son Goku is Revived"
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Synopsis: Vegeta smacks Gohan out of the way of Freeza’s beam, saving him. However, he only does so for more audience for what he feels he can now do: defeat Freeza. With supreme confidence, Vegeta powers up to his fullest extent, surprising Gohan, Piccolo, and Kuririn. He challenges Freeza, but it doesn’t impress his former employer, who is more than capable of avoiding and deflecting his attacks. Regardless of what is thrown at him, Freeza endures, shaking Vegeta to his core. Freeza than attacks Vegeta, easily overpowering him, then slowly torturing him. Meanwhile, Goku has fully recovered.
Dragon Ball Kai – Episode 40 Review
Episode 40, "Freeza’s Final Super Transformation! The Terror Greater Than Hell Starts Now"
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Synopsis: Enraged at Freeza, Gohan attacks and seems to overpower him with a ki blast, but Freeza pushes it back and Piccolo has to save him from it hitting Gohan. Freeza recognizes that Gohan is a Saiyan, but doesn’t know who could have fathered him. Vegeta demands that Kuririn injure him near fatally so that when Dende heals him, he’ll be more powerful than ever, because Saiyans get a power up every time they recover from near death. Kuririn, however, is hesitant to do so. Freeza decides to reveal his true form, changing again. Kuririn finally blasts Vegeta at full power, and Vegeta believes he’ll finally become a Super Saiyan. As Freeza transforms, Vegeta tries to get Dende to heal him, but Dende refuses because of all the Namekians Vegeta killed. Dende heals Piccolo instead. Gohan manages to convince Dende to heal Piccolo. Now in his true form, Freeza immediately kills Dende to prevent any further recoveries. Gohan, Piccolo, and Kuririn attack Freeza, but cannot harm him at all. Then Freeza targets Gohan.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood – Episode 45 Review
Episode 45, "The Promised Day"
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Synopsis: Greed attacks Fuhrer King Bradley/Wrath in his home, but Bradley proves too formidable, and he escapes. At the Armstrong estate, Olivier suggests that her father hand over the Armstrong property to her, but he has plans to give it to Alex. Alex arrives and Olivier suggests a duel for the right to inherit the estate. Their father, mother, and younger sister go off to take a vacation in Xing as they fight. Olivier comes out on top, ejecting Alex from the home. In Youswell, Mei encounters several townsfolk willing to help her with food and board before her trip to Xing, and touched by their generosity, plus a few words from Envy, Mei runs off to Central instead, to Envy’s delight. Edward finds the safehouse Mustang and them had used, expecting to find Alphonse. Instead, Ling arrives, informing Edward that Father is waiting for "the promised day" to active the nationwide alchemy array. Greed soon takes control of his body again and Edward agrees to become his henchman, which Greed gladly accepts. In the north, Izumi gets captured by Briggs troops in order to pass along a message from Alphonse and Hohenheim. The message is passed through Roy’s group as well, and everyone prepares for "the promised day".
Dragon Ball Kai – Episode 39 Review
Episode 39, "The Reborn Piccolo Arrives! A Furious Freeza’s 2nd Transformation"
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Synopsis: Challenging Freeza, Piccolo seems capable with keeping up with the tyrant in combat. Freeza is surprised, but not especially impressed, and presses harder. After removing his weighted training garbs, Piccolo is ready to get serious. Freeza brags that his power is even greater than Piccolo thinks, and is able to transform twice more. He then transforms again, and makes short work of Piccolo, spurring Gohan to come to help.
Dragon Ball Kai – Episode 38 Review
Episode 38, "Freeza Bares His Fangs! Transcendent Power Attacks Gohan"
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Synopsis: Having impaled Kuririn on one of his horns, Freeza tosses the earthling into the water. Gohan attacks in a rage, surprising and overwhelming Freeza. Dende retrieves the still alive, but badly hurt, Kuririn. Generally unharmed, Freeza raises his power and attacks Gohan. Vegeta takes the opportunity to attack Freeza, but it doesn’t harm him. Freeza goes back to Gohan, dealing him blow after blow. Suddenly, one of Kuririn’s Kienzan attacks hits Freeza, cutting off the end of his tail. Healed, Kuririn continues his attack, distracting Freeza so that Dende (who has healing powers) can restore Gohan’s health as well. Before Freeza can figure out what’s happening, Piccolo arrives, more powerful than ever, and determined to take on Freeza himself.