Fullmetal Alchemist – Episode 51 (FINALE) Review
Episode 51, "Laws and Promises” (FINALE) Review
*****SPOILERS*****
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.
Gundam Unicorn AMV – Always
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood – Episode 26 ENGLISH DUB Review
Episode 26, "Reunion"
*****SPOILERS*****
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.
PG Strike Freedom WIP 02: Perfect Grade – Quality Not Included
This WIP post is more so a mini review of the PG Strike Freedom. People have complained about the price tag not being worth the level of detail/design/proportions/lack of gimmicks but I believe they’ve missed one of this kit’s biggest faults.
But first a few shots of progress thus far…
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The skirt armor hasn’t been assembled yet. I figured that it would be difficult to separate the outer and inner pieces and that I might as well leave them off as it’s all get a fancy paint job anyhow.
Fullmetal Alchemist – Episode 50 Review
Episode 50, "Death"
*****SPOILERS*****
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.
Fullmetal Alchemist – Episode 49 Review
Episode 49, "The Other Side Of The Gate"
*****SPOILERS*****
Synopsis: King Bradley returns home with a birthday gift for his son, Selim. Meanwhile, Envy admits to the captured Alphonse that he’s only in on Dante’s plan is to make humans suffer. Edward meets the Tringham brothers at a church (the same one Dante led Rose into). Russell mentions that when his father was working in Central he learned about a secret entrance to an underground laboratory. Edward enters the passage in the church. Edward soon finds himself in a large underground chamber with a town there. Edward arrives in Dante’s lair, where he sees Rose. When Dante arrives, Edward is quick to recognize it’s Dante instead of Lyra and what she’s up to. She scoffs at the idea of "Equivalent Exchange", angering Edward. Then using Rose’s baby, she sends Edward beyond the Gate as she did his father. Ed wakes up somewhere, and notices he has two arms of flesh. He also runs into Hohenheim. He is shocked to find he’s in an unfamiliar city, with zeppelins bombing.