Fullmetal Alchemist

[Vaclav]

Regarding the "WTF is the dragon in the gate after Envy" question - that's apparently Envy's true "beyond the gate thingy" form.

[qxx]

I loved this show. Not a big anime fan but after catching a few episodes here and there, I got into it.

It felt like the last 11 or so episodes were rushed. One thing I liked about FMA is whenever I didn't understand a character's intentions or ideas when they first showed up, I knew they'd get answered in another episode. They didn't leave anything unanswered until the end, which kinda sucked. I understood most of it. The few things I didn't get was...spoiler alert...
















When Ed first got "killed" by Envy, he went to the gate then Al pulled him back. When Ed returned that time, he has no more automail arm/leg. That made some sense. But when he sacrafices himself to bring Al back he is in Munich with a fake arm again, that doesn't make sense to me.

Ontop of that, didn't the "2nd dimension" Edward (in London, I think) die from that Zeppelin crash? wouldn't the world think it's odd to then have an identical Edward in Munich later on? That was a bit confusing.

Also, was the philosopher's stone really capeable of bypassing equivalent exchange? If so, why did Al have to give *anything* up to bring Ed back? I believe he still had some stone in him when he transmuted.

Either way I loved the series but they should have just got rid of Cheska and Winrey because towards the end they ate up a good amount of screen time and did nothing at all for the story.

[The Dauntless One]

Originally Posted by qxx

Also, was the philosopher's stone really capeable of bypassing equivalent exchange? If so, why did Al have to give *anything* up to bring Ed back? I believe he still had some stone in him when he transmuted.

he is the stone itself so he transmuted himself (the philosophers stone) to bring ed back

[Daeos]

Originally I was turned off after catching a couple later episodes on Cartoon Network (which is 100% garanteed to turn any anime it can get it's hands on to horribly dub'd pigshit), but recently I gave it a second chance.

It's pretty good after I got over the goofy animation style they use to show emotion, almost adicting. Put down about 25 episodes in a couple days, hope to finish it off by the end of the week.

[Dokomo]

Trust me sir, the company that made it hard to watch at first was not Cartoon Network.

[qxx]

Originally Posted by The Dauntless One

he is the stone itself so he transmuted himself (the philosophers stone) to bring ed back

What about when Tucker and other's used Al to transmute? It just ate away portions of Al/stone? I guess, the last transmutation he did just consumed his whole body? Very unclear.

[The Dauntless One]

it consumed the rest of Al... if i remember correctly, the (old) lady said a lot of the philosophers stone is gone already because of previous transmutations so it was just enough to bring ed back from the dead.

[Zanoan]

I downloaded the movie. It's .mkv format and it seems the sound messes up (voices are VERY low, almost muted). Anyone knows what kind of new shit I need to download to fix this? I suck at codecs.

[Lenardo]

got the matroska pack?

[findar]

Originally Posted by Fadaar

That's why I prefer the shorter animes like Cowboy Bebop. In Bebop there were maybe 6 or 7 episodes that truly progressed the story, but all of the filler episodes were awesome in their own right also.

escaflowne was good if i recall...

or maybe just the movie was. i dunno i remember liking it tho.

[Zanoan]

Originally Posted by Lenardo

got the matroska pack?

Haven't, afaik. Haven't updated for months tbh.

Edit: Just checked, got K-Lite Codec pack 1.46 as the latest thing I believe.

[Korbal]

FMA is over-rated.