Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 41 || Reaction & Discussion
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Arakawa based Ed's pain here on her own experience giving birth. Pretty metal.
Fullmetal might I add
So that's why looking at this felt weird and like watching someone giving birth...
Well...they say "write what you know", right?
In an earlier episode it was mentioned that Ed & Al's souls likely got tangled during their taboo transmutation, which is why Ed can eat and sleep for Al's body. I think that's why when Ed got near death, Al collapsed at the same moment.
Yes, that is true. It also explains why Ed seemingly grows much more in some of the following episodes as Al's soul is seemingly being pulled to his body.
@@CastSenpai nice, u notice that too
There’s this comment I saw in a demon slayer’s review that really resonated with me. The mc’s really kind and compassionate, REALLY kind and compassionate and someone else comments that he’s too kind and that’s a weakness. The reviewer pointed out that at first, the mc wasn’t kind, he was soft and chose to be kind afterward, because kindness is a choice.
I think that applies to Edward and Alphonse’s situation as well. A lot of characters see them as soft because they refuse to kill but they aren’t soft, they’re compassionate. It’s a choice, it’s willing and it takes strength to be so, and to stay true to one’s own belief even when everyone around you seems to say that it’s naive. In a lot of ways, the duo IS naive but I prefer seeing them as resolute. It takes strength to refuse to kill someone, when you have all the reasons in the world to do so. It takes strength to forgive someone when the person has thoroughly wronged you. There’s strength in Edward and Alphonse’s beliefs and there’s commitment. I really look up to them as human beings for this
Totally agree, well put. They may be stubborn and naïve about it, but for what it’s worth, I think that’s perfectly acceptable. They are insanely tough kids.
Ed’s mercy to him enemy nearly got him killed, but it also got him two allies he probably wouldn’t have otherwise gotten.
Kimblee kind of has never been at full power in either of his fights. In the Scar fight, he himself mentioned how he was rusty from being in prison for years while Scar was fighting non stop killing state alchemists, and in this fight, like he mentioned, he just got out of the hospital. I really like how even though Kimblee is definitely a threat, that's almost got nothing to do with his alchemy.
This ending song is just so next level, especially with some of the later 40s episodes which become so hype. Also, Heinkel picking up that Philosopher's Stone ends up being really important, in a way that is so impressive to me by a writing standpoint because it's just so natural.
I'm not sure but I believe that it was Father and Hoenheim that brought alchemy to the East and West in general. It's possible that no other nation on the planet had alchemy yet, until the portal of truth was opened by Hoenheim and the Dwarf. Xerxes was an ancient civilization that possibly developed alchemy thus making it the most advanced civilization on Earth at the time, much like Amestris considering the Ishvalans even by the show's timeline hadn't adopted alchemy yet. It wasn't until Scar's brother that the Ishvalans had a chance to fight back against the Amestrian military who widely adopted alchemy as a weapon of war. I'm just kinda rambling but it's a fun little thing to consider that Hoenheim and the Dwarf are the ones that basically created alchemy for the rest of the world.
Heinkel actually said "Kim...blee". He's really mad at him for just blowing them up along with Ed.
another thing in the writing i love in this EP, Is that His mercy to His opponents got him impaled, but Also saved 2 lives wich in turn helped him indo the damage and lift him, It Is not just pandering, but actually showing real conectes consequences over His choices, or when he took the 2 guys hinself instead of letting Briggs men get involved, It would only end with blood, both the kimeras and the Briggs soliders, outstanding move, a convicción of steel
Afaik gold is actually called perfect metal due to its reduction potential.
In episode 18, Fu said that the alchemy from the "sage" was combined with Xing's traditional technique to form alkahestry so you're right about something influenced the way it works.
(maybe I'm wrong but read to the end) i never thought of this until now but when Ed healed himself by using his life force he didn't clap his hands or make a circle or anything like that, he did it like with a philosopher's stone when u just need to have it for it to work which tells us he really did use a different "type" of alchemy than what he mostly use. I think it's cool
Yohsi's purpose in the show is to help them get through the mine, quickly. First, he suggests they go through the mine. Then, he finds the map in the mining office. Last, he explains that the dynamite wouldn't explode. Kimbley probably would catch them if they didn't have his help.
Thank god for Yoshi
Kimblee seems to get beaten a lot in his fights. I'm willing to bet his alchemy/fighting style is much better suited to taking out large groups of regular soldiers, but not too great in a close-quarters 1v1
"Nah, he's still good." Bruh. DUDE IS IMPALED!
The fuckin glasses edit got me XD
I bursted SO BAD into laugh when i saw the glasses oml. Brilliant xD
I like the way the anime used the shadows when Miles and Edward argued about killing Kimble's men
That was a really interesting observation about how Father and Hoenheim influenced the alchemy of the places they went to. Hohenheim is good natured and so Xingese alchahestry is primarily used for healing, whereas Amestrian Alchemy is used for militaristic purposes.
Gold is mostly viewed as a perfect metal because it doesn’t corrode/tarnish like other metals, so it’s viewed as immutable, in a sense.
It would be cool if those chimera soldiers could use the stone to heal Ed but they can't. The stone makes it so you can break the laws of equivalent exchange when performing alchemy. But you still need to KNOW how to perform alchemy.
If you pay attention in the episode where the East/West Sages are first mentioned, the depictions are clearly Father and Hohenhiem
i love your reviews, you aré so Sharp you point out details and Guess things i only noticed after a second or third View,
you remember that "please thon't end the episode in a Cliff hanger" the manga chapter precisely ended in that part, so if you were a a manga follower you had to wait with the View of Ed impaled for a month until next EP lol
That would be so painful, but as someone that waited 4 years for Attack on Titan s2, I know the pain all too well lmao
Watching this scene still makes me tense up I can't imagine the pain
one of the things that makes fma my favorite anime is because of how much i identify with the main character. This scene is in my top 3 to tell the truth, I continue to suffer every time I see it (which are not few) and while holding my breath, Ed is clear that he must "pay for his naivety", but far from retracting, he remains faithful to his principles, accepted the consequences, one is faithful to oneself, to one's values. This vision of things leaves him out of being a deluded and naive child, idealistic perhaps, but also aware of his reality, he knows that he can fail and lose, but at least he will do it defending what he believes, even that put in danger the people he loves, something that many will judge harshly, but I think Ed knows that there are values much greater than what we can see in this world. More than naivety, it is a genuine conviction for respect for life, whoever it is, and I completely agree with Ed (my favorite character), see you in the next chapter. Remember: We are all Philosopher's Stones of a single priceless soul.
"you could just leave it in there I guess"
sir, that is a steel pylon. He wouldn't be able to walk without the sheer weight of it ripping down through his stomach
(no hate, haha. Just that... yeah, he wouldn't be able to leave)
Ed's will is so strong that he can think about alchemy formula while in extreme pain
You said they could just blow up Sloth from the inside but that wouldn’t work, that’s how they kidnapped Gluttony and all he did was regenerate from it
The title of the anime is very symbolic for the anime showing that since all the letters in the title are connected it also shows how everything in the end comes together and is connected similar to all is one and one is all its all connected 😳
I wish we got to see all of greeds chimera friends transform, roa looked p cool when he did. I think heinkel is the coolest one tho being a lion
When I first watched this episode I thought it was unreal how he didn't hit anything then 2 seconds later it reveals he was impaled like spoke too soon
yup I really like that what Miles said earlier in the episode happened too
Yeah! It's very refreshing for the protagonists lofty heroic ideals to be put to the test in a harsh reality.
Good job, man. We're getting here to Act 3and it's gonna be nonstop really soon
The idea of a "true" alchemy or true knowledge independent of human experience is fascinating, but seems kinda contrary to (what I see as) the show's stance that subjective human experience IS the truth; that by virtue of being human, we can only experience a part of the truth that we recognize in ourselves. (How truth appears differently to each person, etc.)
Truth is a very abstract concept in both FMAB as well as life itself. I am having a lot of thoughts about how it is presented in the fullmetal universe lately, hoping I get a chance to talk about it in a future episode.
But just off the top of my head, you may be right. Though for me, I feel as if there *may* be an objective truth (represented by the character "Truth"?), humans can never seek to truly find or understand it without it being tainted by their touch. So in many ways, yes, subjective human experience is the truth. The only one we can comprehend, at least. Just some thoughts on it.
@CastSenpai Agreed. Whether it exists somewhere or not, and whether humans can ever experience or access it or not are in principle separate questions, but if we can't ever hope to access objective truth, then the best we can hope for is extrapolation from sharing many separate subjective truths. I think the philosopher of science Karl Popper was one of the more prominent advocates of that.
@CastSenpai Sorry, one more comment, but this goes back to the "if 'all' is not in/of the one, then 'all' is nothing" quote. If we could somehow access the "objective truth," but in the process we have removed ourselves and our own experience from understanding it or interpreting it, then have we really "understood" anything at all? What use would that knowledge have? We would've gained an "all" that has no grounding or applicability to the "ones" that make it alive in the first place.
made in abys was mentioned a few times in this is it a good show i havent seen it yet
It is very good! Though I must give 2 warnings. One for some level of graphic violence that may be tough to watch. The other for.. hmm.. scenes that may not be pleasant to see involving young characters. Definitely off putting for many (including myself).
Well he may not be the strongest by any means, but he is probably the best alchemist in the show especially after what he did here.
heres my understanding of this ..
iron to gold from a tarnished being to a golden divine perfect being... lmao.. eldren rings fans know what im getting at xD
gold = hermprodite in paganism.. aka the PERFECT BEING.. being embrasive of both ones feminity and masculinity..
even in alchemy irl mythology.. perfect being was also depicted as one being being both male and female...
genshin players should sorta also catch on to this with albietos story and his mother "gold/rheindottore"
the negative thing about that is... this "perfect/immortal being" and going from iron to gold.. from a "lowley" being to a "god hood" and "immortality
requires u to view life in an ranking system of "inferior to superior" essentially..
aka rather then accept urself as iron and seeing nothing wrong with it.. where can then geniunelly improve urself.. instead one obessess with being "golden" and thus it usually leads to all kinds of horrid things one will do just to be BETTER then what they are..
its the denial of ur NATURAL self and wanting to be more then what u are.. and it requires some bs justification and excuse one tells themselves as if they "deserve it"
so here i feel father going west and mr ho going east and both developing different forms of it... in a way represent two "humans" each one taking the opposites approach...
father wants to be golden..
father views himself as GOLD and SUPERIOR and views all other life including humans as "infeior" iron.. thus why they are a resource to him...
on the flip side.. mr ho.. is ok with being iron...
thus he just used what he had and knew to create alchehestry to simple help progress and improve current peoples life.. aka he never saw himself nor wanted to be supeior to other beings...
and in no way has a ideology of inferior or superior...
conclusion in my mind.. mr ho is GOLDEN yet accepts his iron
while
father is iron and rejects and covets his GOLD he STOLE from others...
hence why alchmeny and alchestry are polar opposites in who they work.. at least thats how i see it...
so seeking immortallty and perfect being is a massive negative and in no way benefical to any life forms... not even the seeker of it.. rejection of ur iron self so much so that u'll do anything to be GODLY in the eyes of EVERYONE ELSE.. U NEED OTHERS TO BE INFERIOR TO EVEN PRETEND TO BE SUPERIOR... thats flawed thinking and dangerious.. xb
Yoki is an extra.... u will eat yr words lol
is that a sennheiser hd560s you're wearing? nice choice
Yep!
5:10 What is that supposed to mean? Gold is like the perfect conductor lol...
She just said it's the perfect metal. Metal is used for more than just conducting. Besides conducting it's not used for as much as you think. And even then, Silver is a better conductor afaik.
@@CastSenpai There is no such thing as perfect material/metal, but Gold wasn't chosen as the most valuable currency in history for no reason
Was glad you liked this episode as much as I do. It is weird because I was shocked by the scene of Ed being impaled all three times I watched Brotherhood. The first two times I somehow managed to forget this happenedand was surprised each time. Saddly I won't forget it again but I do love it all. For a start, throughout the episode they bring up Ed's unwillingess to kill and then they try to show how Ed doesn't need to with his interlect with Alchemy and how he wins briefly against Kimbley. This all end up backfiring and he ends up in a fatal situation because of this, just like everyone warned. But because he saved the Chimeras he was able to be helped in return but still held true to his beliefs, using his own life force to heal himself. This is without mentioning that the injury is one of the most painful looking ones in anime. How thick the blood is, the way it is impaled through his gut, how his eyes widen and his pupils shrink when he passes out and also the scream.... yeah, it truly sells how agonising it is. As other commentors have mentioned, Arakawa, the author based this pain off of her own experience of child birth and if what I said already isn't proof of that, I think it pays off well.
Have you seen Made in Abyss on your own or have you done reactions for it on the patreon? Also, have you seen the movie and will you react to season 2 when it airs?
It was on my own, also yes I have seen the movie. Season 2 could potentially have reactions, though if I’m honest about it, I have pretty major issues with that series despite how good it is. So I’m not sure.
@@CastSenpai I see. I’m really interested in what major issues you have with the show, since i have only few minor issues, and most of them are me being a manga reader
My issue is primarily just that content wise, some of the stuff is just totally unnecessary to a point past creepy and what anime normally does. If you catch my drift. Wish it didn’t have to be like that.
@@CastSenpai yeah i stopped watching it for the same reason, I don't wanna support in any way those things, even if they are in a decent show
@@CastSenpai Oh, well that’s classic. Funny thing is that you can actually see that anime censored all nudity that was in the manga (aside Prushka’s dissection scene). But i really wouldn’t call it a major issue as it often showcases character dynamics and differences in morals their world has compared to ours. Plus, the most obscene and gut wrenching things are all gonna be in season 2, so i do hope to see your reaction, even if it won’t be always necessary positive.))
NOT THE MADE IN ABYSS COMMENT
Those who know.... Despair