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.
Dragon Ball Kai – Episode 68 Review
Episode 68, "And So the Monster Makes its Move… Take Off! It’s the Super Namekian!" or "Your Local News"
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Synopsis: Gohan spots the husk of a large insect-like creature. Weirded out, Bulma decides to leave the scene. Gohan and Trunks take off as well, wondering about the other time machine and the creature. On her way back to Capsule Corp, Bulma sees a news report and calls the Kame House, telling Kuririn to turn on the television. The news reports strange disappearances in Gingertown. The reporters are suddenly attacked. Frightened of what he sees below, Kami makes his decision to let Piccolo fuse with him, with Piccolo as the base. Piccolo fuses with Kami and then flies off. Trunks decides to go and investigate the happenings at Gingertown, too. Piccolo arrives there and encounters a strange green insect man.
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.
Dragon Ball Kai – Episode 67 Review
Episode 67, "One More Time Machine?! Bulma Unveils a Mystery"
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Synopsis: On the transport, Gohan asks about how the future will change if they manage to defeat the Artificial Humans. Trunks laments that really, nothing will change in his future, as it’s an alternate timeline. However, if he manages to find a way to destroy the Artificial Humans in this timeline, he can go back to his and at least destroy them there. He wonders how things turned out the way they did, but Chi-Chi expresses her gratefulness to him for coming, because it saved Goku’s life. Artificial Human 16 reveals to 17 and 18 the location of Goku’s house and they drive towards there. Kuririn calls Bulma to update her and she reports that people at Capsule Corporation found something that looks like Trunks’ time machine. Trunks, who has his time machine in capsule form, is bewildered. Trunks and Gohan meet with Bulma at the site, and find a time machine just like Trunks, which has been there for several years. They also find a strange eggshell inside of it.
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.