Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood Forum

Hawkeye's at... 10% health, maybe?     

Wrath is a tenacious one, ain’t he? Out of all the super moves he’s pulled during this brawl at the top of the castle, I’d say chucking a knife at enemy while still hanging for his life is probably the most stylin’. He just finds and exploits every possible opportunity to inflict some hurt. Of course, he’s finally feeling some hurt of his own, and the question following that is… how much more can he endure? He’s been blown up, gouged, impaled and, now, he’s possibly drowning. I don’t think he had any chance for a soul pit stop on the way from that mid-air bullet time platforming in the blown-up train wreckage to central, so I’ll take a stab and guess he’s at maybe 20-30% health, right now.  

You lunatics figure that’s a good estimate?

Buccaneer’s, of course, at 0% and am I regretting a little the death wish I had for him earlier. It’s unusual for a character to depart in such a drawn-out fashion in a fantasy adventure like this - - unusually realistic, I suppose. His voice was getting so raspy, you could almost hear the sinews of his insides growing more frayed by the moment. Farewell, Cap’n.

Who was planned to be the fifth sacrifice originally? Gold tooth choosing Mustang seems like a spur-of-the-moment thing (even if he did sense exactly which button to push to get the Colonel to do what he wanted.) Despite Hawkeye being firmly established as his most-loved one, I suspect their relationship’s never going to be fulfilled due to all those social forms Foxxfireart's pointed out. It’s a bit of a pity, really, and I can see why fans are so upset about it.

Speaking of Foxxfireart, I should take this opportunity to recognize the man for filling out the pages for this show as they’d been sorely lacking for a long time. You try finding new images over 58 installment of review like I do and, pretty quickly, you do start noticing the gaps. So much appreciated!

Watch this episode “Sacrifices,” below and decide for yourself, then read my comments on the previous episode here.  

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 I guess everybody is busy this weekend.  

 Soon we're going to see whether all the planning that Hohenheim, Ed, Al, Scar and everyone else did will be enough. 

" @rubberluffy said:

 I guess everybody is busy this weekend.  

Yeah, I think there might be a game going on or something.

 Soon we're going to see whether all the planning that Hohenheim, Ed, Al, Scar and everyone else did will be enough. 

Hohenheim and Mustang have definitely done plenty of planning, but I'm not sure about everybody else. They seem like they're flying from the seat of their pants. "

" @Tom_Pinchuk said:

" @rubberluffy said:

 I guess everybody is busy this weekend.  

Yeah, I think there might be a game going on or something.

 Soon we're going to see whether all the planning that Hohenheim, Ed, Al, Scar and everyone else did will be enough. 

Hohenheim and Mustang have definitely done plenty of planning, but I'm not sure about everybody else. They seem like they're flying from the seat of their pants. "

Oh yeah, Super Bowl.  I keep forgetting. Scar spent the timeskip with Marcoh, going over Scar's Bro's alchemy/alkahestry notes, and they recruited some other Ishvalans for whatever their plan is.  It is kind of strange, but Scar's brother, who does not have a name, and dies in a flashback, might actually be the most intelligent alchemist in the entire series, outside of Hohenheim.  He noticed something was wrong with the country's alchemy before almost anyone else, and they found those two Transmutation Circle diagrams in his notes. "

" In actuality, Roy was a candidate for the sacrifice for a very long time. Originally, they were going to use Tim Marcoh. They needed alchemists who for one knew something about human transmutation and were compassionate enough to do such a thing. Tim Marcoh escaped with Scar and they were never able to reacquire him. Roy became a candidate way back after he killed Lust. It was the reason Bradley didn't go in and kill everyone. Remember when Envy was angry that Bradley didn't kill Roy? Bradley explained it was because he realized it was due to Roy's compassion that they could use him. 

I wouldn't say that the series romances fail to really be fulfilled. I just don't think they get a strong as a close as they really deserve, and I do blame it on the social limitation put upon it by the Japanese culture. 

A nitpicky thing I noticed about this series. The anime director Yasuhiro Irie obviously knows nothing about machine guns. With the way those turret guns were being fired nonstop.

" Ha glad to see foxxfire that you are liking the show.  Told you it had a significantly more fulfilling ending ;).  

"Ah right... I should've been taking notes.