Fullmetal Alchemist

[sukael]

Emotional, thought-provoking... I see it as the sort of thing that television should aspire to.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Emotional, thought-provoking... I see it as the sort of thing that television should aspire to.

No, no, I don't mean that its bad. I just mean that its unnatural for a TV show to have that much emotional *power* over me.

 

[sukael]

Ah, yeah. I see what you mean.

 

[Arc]

How far is the translated version? I watched the show in Japanese w/ subtitles, and it's odd when people reference episodes in English, since I'm fairly sure episode titles changed, and I have to be careful not to give away the plot.

 

[demiurge1138]

I think the dub's pretty good. I'm not too keen on Ed's voice (it's a little too deep), but the supporting cast is generally awesome, and the translation's nice and faithful, while actually being good dialogue.

Demiurge out.

 

[Rystil Arden]

How far is the translated version? I watched the show in Japanese w/ subtitles, and it's odd when people reference episodes in English, since I'm fairly sure episode titles changed, and I have to be careful not to give away the plot.

Episode 25. The one where, to give away only few spoilers, a character who it was very obvious would die from the beginning, died, but at least he threw daggers into a few homonculi first, surviving for a while and offering a glimpse of safety.

 

[domino]

the Iron Fist alchemist (I can't remember his actual name) just does quick-and-dirty conversions of matter into energy

Well, not just that. Don't forget the sparkles.

 

[Alzrius]

(SPOILER)

Dad now hangs out with the Thule Society in Weimar Munich. You know, those guys that gave the Nazis some of their sillier ideas?

Is that who those guys were? I meant to Google that, but never got around to it.

Of course, what probably bothered me most about the ending was what no one mentioned, but seemed obvious:

Spoiler

the world on the other side of the gate (our world in the 1920's), is the distant past of Ed's world...that's Earth in the future.

They never said so, but it's fairly obvious. When Ed and his sensei find Hoenheim's love letter to Dante, they note that it's from four hundred years ago, and uses a dating system based on "the death of Christ" which they say is now an archaic system.

Hence, Ed's journeying to look into rockets to reach another world is inherently going to fail. I suppose it's not too completely implausible that Ed wouldn't have noticed this, but I have a very hard time believing Hoenheim didn't inform him of it.

 

[FreeTheSlaves]

I found the little girl Nina's transmutation episode to be quite disturbing. Mind you the Tucker side story is one of the most tragic in the series. If I remember correctly, around episode 40 Al experiences another tragic moment that really hit me.

Actually throughout the series there are a number of what I would call 'adult' episodes, which are quite heavy.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I found the little girl Nina's transmutation episode to be quite disturbing. Mind you the Tucker side story is one of the most tragic in the series. If I remember correctly, around episode 40 Al experiences another tragic moment that really hit me.

Actually throughout the series there are a number of what I would call 'adult' episodes, which are quite heavy.

You know, the Nina episode really didn't make me care. I don't know why, but for me its worse when a developed character with potential to aid the cause is killed before he can, as opposed to the "Look at how cute and sweet I am because they're going to kill me soon" little kid characters...