Was Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood really a masterpiece, or...
69K views · Jul 3, 2025 · Education
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@TYLER-fs5ks · 1 year ago
You either die an Overanalyzing avatar <br>Or live long enough to see yourself become overanalyzing anime
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@Vael221 · 1 year ago
I think my favorite part about you calling Fuery "dog-haver" is that the dog is Hawkeye's and not even his dog.
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@andrewgalati3406 · 1 year ago
I am not sure if you tracked that that when Hughes was screwing around with maps and papers way back in season 1 he had figured out that the country was an alchemical circle. Man was a good 40 episodes ahead. This is one of the big reasons everyone loves Hughes, secretly one of the most brilliant on the whole cast.
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@chaossabermoo9697 · 1 year ago
Alphonse is actually voiced by a girl in Brotherhood her name is Maxey Whitehead and she's great. Alphonse was voiced by a boy in the 03 show but he was an actual kid who hit puberty by the time Brotherhood was out so they just casted a girl to do a young boy voice but Aaron Dismuke does get to voice someone later to make up for it.
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@Jotari · 1 year ago
Sloth is actually the smartest Homunculi, since he can dig a perfect circle over a huge distance and centuries. That is some absolutely insane mathematics. He just seems stupid because thinking is too much work.
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@TwilightChomperEnthusiast · 1 year ago
I love how I can know absolutely nothing about this franchise, but your commentary makes it entertaining!
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@matheusm.santana6527 · 1 year ago
One distinction the show did make that i think you missed is that king bradley and now ling are a different type of homunculi than the others.<br>They are humans with a philosopher stone injected in them, while the otehrs like lust and envy are full homunculi, being sort of projected from their stone.<br>Its interesting to note that the first greed we saw was fully a homunculus, he got "absorbed" by Father, and then injected into ling.
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@FluffyKittenz69 · 1 year ago (edited)
I severely underestimated this show the first time I watched. I was expecting surface level shounen stuff but after finishing it and watching all this foreshadowing, makes it one of my favourite shows of all time
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@BobofWOGGLE · 1 year ago (edited)
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oCOP6MZ14k&t=1440">24:00</a> "though I'm whining about it in this closing paragraph, it definitely has to be a ringing endorsement for the show: I want the show to reveal these things to me, the inner workings of the story that I'm really trying to piece together but I just can't yet"<br><br>This is one of my favorite parts of the show and a major reason I've rewatched it more times than I can remember: enough pieces are on the table at this point that a first-time viewer <i>could</i> correctly speculate what the grander jigsaw represents, but the order and manner in which the pieces get revealed are well designed to obfuscate it and keep focus elsewhere. <br>By the time the 'big reveal' comes around, the average viewer has likely forgotten that 'most of this reveal was already <s>stated</s> glossed over in throwaway lines from the first 5 episodes'
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@CruzaComplex · 1 year ago (edited)
Update: I binged the whole series last weekend and could not find this quote. I swear to god I'm in the Berenstein universe. For the record, the English scripts I'm seeing around the internet aren't 1:1 accurate with the dub, for anyone going down the same rabbit hole. Maybe I heard it in the original series, but even I'm not that dedicated. I accept the dirt I'm eating for spreading lies on the internet, disregard what you see below.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oCOP6MZ14k&t=1360">22:40</a> "That's a stupid shape for this country."<br><br>Episode 1's villain calls you an idiot for not realizing this sooner. "Think about the shape this country's in."<br><br>EDIT: Didn't think this would be what made me renew a netflix subscription, but here we go. I'm not seeing in transcripts where this language is used, but I distinctly remember it. I hate being a source of misinformation, so binging the series over the holiday weekend to cite my source like an adult, or something. Sure hope I'm not thinking of some shit from the 2003 series because even I'm not that committed to the bit.<br><br>Edit edit: The transcripts I'm finding online don't match up with the actual English dub. Guess I'm in it for the long haul.
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@skirch6094 · 1 year ago (edited)
You might've missed that, starting around episode 28, there are post-credits scenes in a handful of episodes all the way up till episode 60ish. They resolve a few questions you had.
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@HOLDENPOPE · 1 year ago (edited)
Kimblee's main thing, aside from generic psychopathy, is his constant challenging of people's morals and beliefs. There will more of that in the future, as he even does this to other villains.
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