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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood – Episode 27 ENGLISH DUB Review

Episode 27, Banquet at the Crevice"


 

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Synopsis: In a dream, Hohenheim talks to a younger Pinako about his sons, the country, and humans. Another version of him appears and reveals that "Pinako" is really him trying to defend the human race. In the end, he dreams of confirmation of his beliefs by Trisha and the people he knew in Resembool. Waking up, Hohenheim continues on his journey.

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How does one review the dub of something that is largely a clip episode? The only characters who aren’t speaking merely in clips are Hohenheim, Father, a younger Pinako, and Trisha. So, I guess what I’ll have to do is, well, just comment on their performances. read more

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Fullmetal Alchemist – Episode 51 (FINALE) Review

Episode 51, "Laws and Promises” (FINALE) Review

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Synopsis: As Edward lies in a pool of blood, Envy gloats over his victory. Frank Archer makes his way to the Fuhrer’s residence, where Roy’s flame alchemy is having little effect on Pride. Pride warns Roy that if he succeeds, the public wouldn’t embrace him. Suddenly Selim Bradley arrives, but Pride panics and is in pain when Selim holds up his "secret treasure". The Fuhrer strangles Selim, but Roy manages to get ahold of the "treasure", which turns out to be a skull, a piece of Bradley’s original body. Roy uses it and his flames to get an advantage over Pride. In Dante’s lair, Alphonse uses alchemy to disable Gluttony. Dante tells him not to, as he’ll waste away, but Alphonse is desperate to save his brother’s life. Before Envy can attack him, Alphonse activates the arrays Dante set up. Roy finishes Bradley off, destroying the skull, but as he carries Selim out of the residence, Archer arrives and shoots him. Archer is shot dead by Riza, who is devestated to find Roy injured. At the Gate, Edward warns Envy not to go through the Gate, but he does to go find Hohenheim. Edward awakens in Dante’s lair, with both his human arms, Rose by his side, and Dante and Gluttony gone. Dante tries to escape the underground city, but an out of control Gluttony lunges at her before she’s able to do anything. Edward decides to sacrifice himself to bring Alphonse back from the Gate. Time passes. The government had taken back the country. The military has reversed their policies on Ishbal. Roy Mustang is recovering with Riza Hawkeye at his side. Alphonse Elric has returned to his human body, without memories of what had happened during the brothers’ journey. Edward had disappeared. Alphonse requests that Izumi train him more so that he can find a way to reunite with his brother. Back on the other side of the Gate, Edward and Hohenheim are in Munich, Germany, in 1921. Edward studies rocketry, hoping he can find a way back home through space. Edward wonders if all he’s been through was worth it, but Hohenheim tells him that all he went through was the price he paid. Edward and Alphonse are both determined to reunite. read more

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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood – Episode 26 ENGLISH DUB Review

Episode 26, "Reunion"

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Synopsis: While unsuccessfully trying to battle Envy, Edward comes to a realization, and halts the fight with the promise of returning himself, Envy, and Ling back to the real world. Back at Central, Scar and Mei follow Alphonse and Gluttony in underground passages. Edward decides to do a human transmutation on himself to open the real Doors of Truth, and use Envy’s Philosopher’s Stone to send everyone back. He also reveals his realization that whoever made the homunculi used Xerxes’ people to transmute a Philosopher’s Stone centuries before. In Central HQ, Bradley relates to Roy the story of his childhood and becoming Wrath. Back in the darkness, Edward activates an alchemy array and goes through the Gate, finding himself face-to-face with Alphonse’s withering body. As the gate reopens to pull him out, he promises to return some day. read more

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Fullmetal Alchemist – Episode 50 Review

Episode 50, "Death"

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Synopsis: Edward is astonished to find himself in a world where mechanical technology evolved instead of alchemy. Hohenheim tells him it’s the world beyond the Gate. Back in Amestris, Mustang’s group is bogged down in the North. In the Fuhrer’s home, he shows his son Selim a safe hiding his "secret treasure" and gives him the key to it. Roy sneaks onto the grounds of the manor. On the other side of the Gate, Hohenheim reveals that the lives that are lost in that world become energy for alchemy in theirs, explaining that despite Equivalent Exchange, transmutations require energy, and that they have Gates inside them that they open when they use alchemy and use that energy from peoples’ lives. Edward admonishes his father for abandoning their family, but Hohenheim shows that his body has been decaying. In Dante’s lair, she removes Gluttony’s personality so that he loses inhibitions and becomes pure Gluttony, ordering him to devour Alphonse and form the Philosopher’s Stone inside him. Hohenheim tells Ed that his body is still in the Gate and his soul was drawn to the body of the Ed in that world. Hohenheim is called by soldiers. He tells Edward that his body passed through the Gate, so he can’t return, being unable to use alchemy in that world, but Edward still has a chance. He is taken away by the soldiers. As Edward is walking, though, one of the zeppelins falls on him. Riza comes to the Fuher’s household with the cover story of warning him, and Bradley, hearing something down stairs, goes to investigate. Roy traps him in the wine cellar, but Bradley cuts the air current with his sword so Roy can’t use flames against him. Wrath tries to get Dante to bring back Sloth, but instead she has the Gate remove Ed’s limbs from him. But out of the Gate comes Edward. Envy attacks him, but gets pinned down. That’s when he reveals his "true face", that resembling a young Hohenheim. Dante explains that he was transmuted to bring back a child Hohenheim and Dante had that died of mercury poisoning. Shocked, Edward is caught off guard as Envy impales him. Rose snaps out of her stupor as Edward lies in a pool of blood. read more

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Fullmetal Alchemist – Episode 48 Review

Episode 48, "Goodbye"


 
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Synopsis: In the North, soldiers begin to question the delay in action. Armstrong announces that they will revolt against Central. Back in the warehouse, Sloth dissolves away, burning Wrath, who seperates from her. Sloth fades away. A Winry-disguised Envy appears and captures Alphonse, dismissing Wrath who wants to bring Sloth back with the Stone, and leaving. A devastated Wrath attacks Edward, but stops when Izumi appears. Wrath runs off. The Tringham brothers appear in Central, but get arrested when Russell impersonates Ed again. Ed decides to go after Fuhrer King Bradley next, as he’s the only one he knows the location of. North, Armstrong and Roy’s group (with Havoc and Feury disguised as Mustang and Hawkeye) have difficulty with the other troops. Back in Central, Roy and Riza make plans and Maria Ross and Denny Brosh visit the Tringham brothers in their prison. Edward and Izumi are held up at Central HQ after realizing that Bradley went home early for his child’s birthday. They encounter the Tringham brothers, working alongside Ross and Brosh. The Tringhams pass along something from their father’s notes. However, Frank Archer bursts in, apparently having been made part mechanical. Edward leaves while Izumi and the others hold Archer off. Edward encounters Roy and Riza, and gets in the car with them. Ed and Roy discuss their beliefs, admitting there are bigger things than their own desires. They part ways. read more

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Fullmetal Alchemist – Episode 47 Review

Episode 47, "Sealing the Homunculus"

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Synopsis: Sloth uses Alphonse’s memories of his mother to try to get his cooperation. Tucker wants to try using the Stone again, but Sloth refuses him. Edward arrives at the factory. He engages Sloth in combat, but his brother objects. He manages to get Sloth trapped in an alchemy array (carved by Lust with her claws) using a piece of his mother to immobilize her. Lust claims that she has memories of the woman she was intended to come back. Alphonse gets rid of the piece of his mother despite his brother’s objections. Lust attacks Sloth, hoping to finish her off, while Ed goes to retrieve the piece of his mom. However, he runs into Wrath who absorbs the piece. Lust does battle with Wrath again, while Sloth manipulates Al from inside of him. Working together, Ed and Al remove her from Al. Wrath traps Lust in the alchemy array and kills her. Sloth recalls her memories of being born and how she was given form by being fed lesser stones. She claims to want to kill the brothers to prove she isn’t Trisha Elric. Wrath combines himself with Sloth, but as the piece of Trisha is in him, she is immobilized, and unable to seperate from her, Wrath can’t prevent Edward from finishing Sloth off. Edward transmutes Sloth’s liquid body into ethanol and she begins to dissolve at room temperature. read more

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Fullmetal Alchemist – Episode 47 Review

Episode 46, "Human Transmutation"


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Synopsis: Tucker takes Alphonse into the basement of the factory where he’s been trying to bring back Nina. He requests that Alphonse let him use the Philosopher’s Stone, but Alphonse reveals his hesitance, since he is the Stone. At Dante’s estate, Izumi provides evidence that Hohenheim and Dante had once been lovers, 400 years earlier. Roy Mustang and Alex Louis Armstrong, now promoted, are sent North. Fuhrer King Bradley takes a secret elevator to Dante’s lair, where Envy appears, angered by missing the chance to kill Hohenheim. In exchange for information, Alphonse allows Tucker to use the Philosopher’s Stone to bring to life his Nina chimera. Edward is confronted by Lust and Wrath, trying to use Scar’s locket to immobilize Lust. Lust betrays Wrath, however, wanting Edward to make her into a human with the Stone. The two make their way to the factory. Tucker’s Nina chimera is made, but is barely alive. Sloth arrives, pointing out that a piece of Al is now gone.
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