Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Well,

uh,

neither was I

Man, even when Mustang is acting like a jerk he still looks cool

He's raised by hostess club madame. Even if only by osmosis, he's bound to be charming, princely bastard at minimum.

Madame Christmas needs more screentime.

His name is Col. Roy Mustang. He was raised by Madame Christmas. He creates gorramn combustion reactions with a literal snap of his fingers. I'd say more but spoilers. It would be a crime against humanity if he ever wasn't the coolest motherfucker in any given universe.

edited 3rd Dec '16 3:24:17 AM by TheAirman

He can rap too.

If Ed is correct and he is providing nutrition for Al's body too when he eats, would he be quite underweight if he needed to provide for both of them and yet ate for one, on top of being short?

Ed actually eats for two. Look back at episode 1 and you see Ed eat Al's share of dinner.

Yup. He's been doing it the whole time.

It's Al who is the underweight scrawn. Ed's been hogging most of that nutrition for himself and he is still short.

edited 4th Dec '16 12:18:18 PM by RAlexa21th

Oh, right. Didn't notice that.

Also, Ling is my favorite character who wasn't also in '03.

I feel like both series have advantages over the other in certain departments, but this plot is so good I'm probably going to give the advantage to Brotherhood.

Hm...aside from what you've already mentioned about the Elric brothers, what advantages do you think each of them have, at the moment?

I like the at times somber mood of '03. It took time to slow down, which can be nice sometimes. I like how the back stretches of '03 actually made me think afterwards sometimes in the way something like Eva would, which is something I personally really love, and it's not something I would have expected from a seemingly simple shonen like FMA. Of course, FMA is no ordinary shonen in either canon, but I didn't know that going in. Furthermore, where they follow each other, '03 greatly outperforms Brotherhood, because Brotherhood didn't really hit its stride until after the divergence.

Brotherhood has less of that stuff, but it makes up for it with its absolute rollercoaster of a plot, which never stops but never feels exhausting, after the first 12ish episodes, where things felt a little rushed, things become perfectly paced, and there is absolutely zero filler besides maybe Episode 1 and the Rush Valley episode, which isn't something that could be said for '03. I also love the greatly expanded scope of the thing. More characters, more places, more things happening, higher stakes. I like that the world is expanded. In '03 it kind of felt like Amestris was the whole world and nothing else matters, but here we see that Amestris is actually just a small part of the world.

And did I mention the plot? Because while '03s plot is great Brotherhood's has been one of the best I've ever seen so far.

Ling is amazing and easily my second favorite Brotherhood character. Where are you at?

edited 6th Dec '16 12:42:11 PM by LordVatek

Episode 27 right now. The past 3 episodes really ramped up the HSQ

I don't remember how many episodes this was or if you're up to the part with Bradley...

If you're not then the HSQ has not yet been reached.

Which part with Bradley? There are a lot of parts with Bradley.

We know he's Wrath, Ed and Ling know he's Wrath, Roy knows he's Wrath, and Bradley started expositing about his part to Roy for some reason.

Now we're seeing Hohenheim at a trippy campfire with young Pinako and recapping the plot so far despite him not being there for any of it

edited 6th Dec '16 1:05:01 PM by LinkToTheFuture

You are one episode away from my all-time favorite FMA character being introduced.

Well, if you've gotten the full reveal about Bradley, then I can finally bring up this point.

I made this post in the FMA General thread if you recall.

Now that you've passed the point where Bradley has explained his background, I can go into details.

03 Bradley / Pride has all of Brotherhood Bradley / Wrath's abilities, but unlike the latter, can regenerate.

However, Wrath lacks any other weaknesses besides that, and later on, you'll really see just how terrifying he is, just how lucky the heroes are that he lacks the same powers as his fellows, and just how incredibly lucky 03 Roy was that Pride's weakness was practically handed to him.

You mean Father?

If Vatek's talking about who I think they are, then no.

This should be interesting...

Wait. I think I do know who he's talking about.

Heh.

That Big Sister Armstrong.

It is not Father. You'll know exactly who it is.

edited 6th Dec '16 2:14:22 PM by LordVatek

Is it Ling-as-Greed?