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Fullmetal Alchemist – Episode 42 Review

Episode 42, "His Name Is Unknown"

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Synopsis: Kimbley dies after tranmuting Alphonse, who will slowly become explosive. Lust appears and Scar rejects her. Beneath the city, Edward battles both Sloth and Wrath, subduing them. Mustang, Hawkeye, and Armstrong confront Archer and Tucker on their collusion, but chimeras are released to attack them. Scar puts his brother’s locket on Alphonse to keep Lust from him and sacrifices his arm to transform Al into a different material. He plans to turn Al into the Philosopher’s Stone to save his life, but Lust dislikes the idea. Edward tells Rose and Lyra to scatter with the people of Lior and tell people about what happened. In town, Scar is shot several times when he throws himself in front of Lust to protect her, despite knowing she can heal. He reveals that he loved the woman she was made to bring back and resented his brother, but loved him and is jealous of the bond between the Elric brothers. Edward tries to prevent Archer from ordering his troops in, but the colonel goes ahead anyway. Walking out into the carving for the array, Scar lies down, dying as he ignites the transmutation. The charging soldiers are swallowed up by the light. Roy and his group defeat the chimeras, getting the news about the light in Lior. Edward finds Alphonse in the ruins of the town, and discovers his brother’s been turned into the Philosopher’s Stone. read more

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Fullmetal Alchemist – Episode 41 Review

Episode 41, "Holy Mother"



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Synopsis: Scar shows Edward hundreds of graves of people in Lior killed in the conflict with the military. Alphonse is still recovering from Martel’s death, remember that she told him that the Fuhrer is a homunculi just before being killed. Edward asks for Lyra to hear him out about something. A messenger is sent from Lior to Mustang passing along what Ed’s discovered. Al reveals to Roy and his group that the Philosopher’s Stone is made of people. Alphonse heads for Lior with Edward’s pocket watch, which was just returned. In Lior, Kimbley and several chimeras begin kiling people. Scar leaves Edward in charge of leading the people out of the city in the tunnels. Edward hopes that with the letter delivered, the military will not charge in and give Scar the ingredients he needs. Bradley holds up the deployment, which upsets Archer and Lust. Apparently the homunculi’s leader had passed along that order. Scar confronts Kimbley back in Lior. Kimbley’s Stone and Scar’s arm react to each other, with Scars arm taking in the Stone. In the tunnels, Edward encounters Sloth and Wrath. Alphonse interrupts the fight between Scar and Kimbley, but he manages to destroy one of Scar’s arms. Scar delivers a fatal blow to Kimbley, but before he dies, he begins transforming Al into a bomb. Underground, Ed is confronted by Sloth and realizes that she was created by him and his brother when they tried to bring back their mom. read more

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Fullmetal Alchemist – Episode 40 Review

Episode 40, "The Scar"

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Synopsis: Alphonse gets into the middle of the fight between Martel and Kimbley, barely managing to the Crimson Alchemist. Fuhrer King Bradley leaves Hakuro in charge as he goes to the East with Juliet Douglas. Edward engages Scar in combat in an alley, but gains the advantage, until Lust and Gluttony interrupt. However, Scar is able to hold Lust off with a locket and Gluttony takes her away. Then Rose and Lyra appear, and it’s revealed that Rose cannot speak. In a flashback, we see that Scar’s brother had a beautiful girlfriend who died of an illness. He threw himself into alchemy research in hopes of bringing her back to life. However, he was incapable of doing so and was cast out. Edward tells Scar that a failed human transmutation creates homunculi. The locket has a lock of hair from Scar’s brother’s lover in it. Scar explains that his brother was welcomed back when the conflict with the military started, but he was incapable of making a Philosopher’s Stone. Escaping from the military, the Ishbalans were confronted by Kimbley, who blew up a man and gave Scar his scar. Then he destroyed Scar’s arm. However, the little Stone he had was absorbed into Scar’s brother’s tattoo. When Scar regained consciousness, his brother had given him his arm. Scar’s brother dies soon after. Lyra reveals that Scar’s plan is to lure the military into the city and sacrifice them to make a Philosopher’s Stone while the citizens escape via tunnels. At the outpost base, Bradley arrives. Crawling around, Martel overhears Bradley giving Kimbley the order to kill Edward so that they have an excuse to charge into Lior. Martel threatens Bradley, but discovers that he is a homunculus. She runs to Alphonse for protection, but Bradley puts his sword in Al, killing her. read more

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Fullmetal Alchemist – Episode 39 Review

Episode 39, "Secret of Ishbal"

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Synopsis: Winry and Sheska warn Maria Ross and Denny Brosh that there’s something going on within the military. Winry tells Sheska that they’re going to Risembool. On a train to the east, Roy discovers that Kimbley has been welcomed back into the military and is under Archer’s command. In the desert, Edward admits to Martel that he killed Greed. Martel, however, holds no grudge against him, but rather the other homunculi and Kimbley. The next day, the group arrives in the ruins of Ishbal. Martel explains that she was in the military before becoming a chimera and was part of a covert operation that stirred up the Ishbalan rebellion. But her team was then arrested, turned into chimeras and locked up. Ed and Al encounter Havoc and Breda and end up meeting with Mustang where the military are gathering. Roy brings Edward under his command. Edward realizes a new war is brewing. Ed and Al are told that Lior has been rebelling against military authority, that Scar is there, and he’s drawing a giant alchemy array around the city. Edward volunteers to run recon for Archer, inflitrating Lior. Edward leaves his alchemist watch with Armstrong at Archer’s request. The watch is brought to Tucker. Disguised and in Lior, Edward learns of the Holy Mother, a new spiritual leader, but recognizes her as Rose. Back at the outpost, Martel spots Kimbley and attacks him. While Ed goes to get a closer look at Rose, Scar finds him. read more

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Fullmetal Alchemist – Episode 38 Review

Episode 38, "With the River’s Flow"

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Synopsis: Winry meets Sheska at Hughes’ grave. The Elric brothers arrive at a town by a river, hoping to procure a ride. They get into an argument about what step to take next, with Edward wanting to go after Scar, but Alphonse wanting to go take on the homunculi first. This leads to a fight, and Edward storms off. Walking around town, Alphonse encounters Martel, Greed’s last surviving chimera henchmen. Sheska reveals to Winry what she’s found in investigating the death of Hughes, about how Juliet Douglas can’t possibly be who she claims to be. Martel tells Al that she’s looking to get revenge on those responsible for Greed’s death. Edward, having trouble finding Al again, remembers that as children, when they fought Al would go by the river and he would retrieve him. Winry and Sheska find a way to listen in on a coversation between Juliet Douglas/Sloth and Envy, but she catches onto them somehow and goes after them. However, she hesitates when Winry recognizes her as the brothers’ mother and disappears as Maria Ross and Denny Brosh arrive to see what they’re up to. Ed finds Al by the river and they make up. On their way out of town, Martel offers them a ride on her motorcycle’s cart, which they accept. read more

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Fullmetal Alchemist – Episode 37 Review

Episode 37, "The Flame Alchemist, The Bachelor Lieutenant, & The Mystery of Warehouse 13"

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Synopsis: Jean Havoc, instructed to keep a log of his superior’s behavior, gets the help of Falman, Breda, and Fuery in keeping tabs on Roy. However, in their investigation, Havoc is devestated to learn that the colonel is seeing a girl he likes. Mustang orders his subordinates to find Havoc a woman. Meanwhile, Frank Archer orders Sheska to put together records of the 5th Laboratory. She takes the assignment in hopes of finding out who killed Hughes. Major Armstrong suggests that Havoc date his shy younger sister, Catherine. Havoc arrives at the Armstrong family mansion to be introduced, but is nervous about Alex’s description of her as looking like him. She turns out to be very cute and demure, but admits she’d rather date somebody more like her brother. Shortly after, Mustang’s subordinates become frightened by ghost stories about a phantom military warehouse. Archer orders Sheska destroy all the materials she gathered. When Mustang joins his to investigate the warehouse matter, it turns out not to be what they expected. Archer and Armstrong are dispatched to the east, but Mustang manages to get himself and his team attached to the mission. read more

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Fullmetal Alchemist – Episode 36 Review

Episode 36, "The Sinner Within"

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Synopsis: Ed and Al meet up with Ishbalans being transported by train by the military, including Rick, Leo, and Scar’s master. Ed and Al agree to take the kids with them in return for information on Scar’s whereabouts. Winry finds a tractor for the group to travel on and they escape from the military. Edward steels his resolve to kill if Scar gets in his way again. Going back to where the refugee settlement was, Ed and Al sneak into the outcast’s hut, but are confronted by Riza Hawkeye. She reveals that Mustang used his flame alchemy to surround the rebelling Ishbalans, causing them to settle down and that they’ve taken the outcast into custody, as well as several Ishbalans who attacked him. Ed and Al ask the outcast about Scar and his brother and the old man tells them that the Ishbalans used to use a skill called the Grand Art that was like alchemy, but ended up rejecting it and casting out those who used it. He says that making the Philosopher’s Stone would require several human sacrifices. Ed and Al are disappointed by this. Rick and Leo accidently reveal to Winry that her parents were killed by Roy Mustang. Winry reacts to this causing her to be restrained by soldiers. Edward suggests that Rick and Leo go to Risembool, but they decide to go to the camp with the other Ishblans. Edward lectures the two about discrimination. Winry decides to go to Central with Riza. Sloth introduces Wrath to Lust and Gluttony and tells them to find the Elrics. Arriving in Central, Winry discovers that Maes Hughes has died, finding it difficult to believe that he died trying to help the man who killed her parents. read more

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Fullmetal Alchemist – Episode 35 Review

Episode 35, "Reunion of the Fallen"

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Synopsis: Greed’s death has Lust wondering about her own existence and she runs into a man from her past named Lujon who uses a lesser Stone to heal people. Ed and Al travel and run into a young woman being accosted by thugs. Ed saves her. Lujon is looking for a new Philosopher’s Stone to use to help his village. In a flashback, Lust and Gluttony come upon a village of people who were suffering from a mysterious illness that Lujon tries to use alchemy to cure. In the present, Ed and Al meet the young woman, Libia that was looking for Lujon. In a flashback, we see when the illness struck the village, Lujon tried his best to cure people of the sickness, but they would end up dying, regardless. Lust sees his frustration and offers to teach him advanced alchemy. In the present, Scar recovers a locket from the desert. Lust and Gluttony go with Lujon back to his village and Ed, Al, and Winry travel with Libia. A flashback shows that while studying alchemy with Lust, Lujon fell in love with her. Talking with Envy, it’s revealed that the whole thing was a scheme to get people to make the Philosopher’s Stone. Lujon left Libia at the alter to be with Lust, but she disappeared after helping him cure the illness. In the present, Lust once again seemingly helps him cure the illness, but kills him. Soon after, everyone else in the village dies, too, including a heartbroken Libia, who arrives too late. Lust felt Lujon was the biggest mistake she made and yet after killing him, still wonders about herself. read more

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