![]() I don't have any value to assign to the difference, by the way, just pointing it out. In this, they truly do intend to see their teacher. They had no real intention of seeing their teacher, due to being afraid of her, but she ended up tracking them down because of the rumors about them and finding them in Rush Valley. ![]() They say they're abandoning their quest to get the Philosopher's Stone, lying so that the people around them won't follow their lead and put themselves in danger. In the first series, Ed and All tell Hughes and Armstrong that they're going to see their teacher to get some information, but that's a cover story. I noticed a different reasoning behind Ed and Al's actions in this episode than in the 25th episode from the first series. It put a smile on my face when I realized it. Romi Paku (Edward Elric), Rie Kugumiya (Alphonse Elric), Keiji Fujiwara (Maes Hughes), Kenji Utsumi (Alex Louis Armstrong), and Hidekatsu Shibata (Fuhrer King Bradley) were all in one scene together in their same roles from the first adaptation. No, the reason why I enjoyed it was that all the voice talent used in the scene were the same voice talents used for those same characters in the first series. However, since we saw some of his true nature in the anime-only first episode and he's made appearances in a few episodes since, the humor of the scene is greatly diminished. Now, in the manga, this is the first appearance of the Fuhrer in the story, and him being this sort of weirdly amiable character to mask his true nature is part of what makes him so interesting. This was a very smart way of opening this episode.Īnother scene I enjoyed, but for a different reason than I should have, was when the Fuhrer stopped by to visit Edward in the hospital. I hope they revisit it later with the Fuhrer's own thoughts during that scene. It's actually a scene from one of my favorite later portions of the manga, and one of my favorite scenes from that, to boot. Roy once again declares his intention to rise to the top and Maes states his support, but it almost has more of an impact here because we saw some of the brutality of the war and what it means to Roy to rise to the top to prevent that sort of thing. Here, we have a flashback to the Ishbal massacre itself, when much of the fighting has died down and the Fuhrer visits to oversee the troops. In this flashback, Roy states his ambition to move to the top of the military government, and Hughes declares his willingness to support this goal. In the first series, we got a flashback wherein Hughes visits a deeply depressed Colonel Mustang with a pie his then girlfriend baked, in hopes from cheering him up from the trauma from the Ishbalan massacre. Probably my favorite episode of this new series thus far.įirst of all, the beginning. How was it this time around? Well, it was a damn good episode. ![]() Fans of the manga and first series must have waited with great anticipation to see how it would be presented to them in this new series. In the manga material it was based on, it also was significant, albiet ultimately in the long stretch. It was masterfully presented by the talents of the Studio Bones staff. The events in this episode were a watershed moment in the first Fullmetal Alchemist anime adaptation, the death of a character who had not only been around for quite a while, but had factored into the lives of several characters and whose death was surprising (to those who hadn't read the manga at the time) and tragic. ![]() After Hughes' funeral, Roy begins investigating his death, vowing to find his killers. Hughes tries to contact Roy via an outside pay phone, but is killed by Envy, in disguise as Maria Ross. While reading the paper, Hughes is inspired to do some research into the massacres around the country, but is confronted by Lust. The brothers get on a train to Dublith, to go see their alchemy teacher, though the thought of it frightens them. Fuhrer King Bradley visits and warns the group not to investigate any further. Synopsis: Edward describes his experiences at Laboratory 5 to Major Armstrong and Lt. ![]()
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