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| awesome episode o_O its getting better and better... |
| great episode though i don't think Winry's realization was done too well :\ |
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Thassodar said: Additionally if he has a "True Form" and can use it, why did lust not use her "True Form" to rapeify Mustar--err Mustang? Is that explained later? If so I'd rather not know. The "truth" of lust was ultimate lance The "Truth" of greed was ultimate shield. Thassodar said: AND MANGA READERS PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP COMPARING STUFF IN THE MANGA TO THE SHOW BECAUSE THEY'RE FULL OF SPOOOOILERS. DO YOU KNOW WHAT SPOOOOOILERS ARE CHILDREN? Content which was not used and will never be used does not count as spoilers. It counts as deleted scenes :) |
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| This series keeps on getting better. I find myself really looking forward to it every week. Also, d'aww Al has a pet... Sort of. |
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| great episode, 20mins of awesomeness, notice how ed was below bacteria in the pyramid food =] |
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| yes, hawkeye was there in the manga... i gotta keep going with how i love how... gory this anime is xDDDD i'm so proud.... with the end of this episode and the next which has one of the many, many great fights of the series, i have finally bumped up the series to a 9/10. few anime have gotten there for me. i just don't want to believe that we are halfway done with the anime if it'll only be 50 episodes long D= |
| Good episode but I hope the series starts to pick up speed a bit now because it's been a bit too slow paced for my liking. |
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neverless said: I liked the food chain pyramid thingy lol Haha yeah, started to laugh when that panda thing realised Alphonse is above them xD And Lan Fan is quite the tough girl, but poor dog getting a severed arm strapped on him =O Can't wait to see Gluttony in the next episode, he looked pretty wicked. |
AoiMemori said: This anime is not that gory.yes, hawkeye was there in the manga... i gotta keep going with how i love how... gory this anime is xDDDD i'm so proud.... with the end of this episode and the next which has one of the many, many great fights of the series, i have finally bumped up the series to a 9/10. few anime have gotten there for me. i just don't want to believe that we are halfway done with the anime if it'll only be 50 episodes long D= |
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| Interesting. |
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| Wtf is with the chapter titles on the eclipse release... Stories getting great, read the manga so not much speculation here :D |
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| I relieved after realizing that Ranfan can get automail too...and realized that I'm going to read the manga coz I just can't wait what will happen! >.< |
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| ah my poor little ran fan |
N_Ox said: AoiMemori said: This anime is not that gory.yes, hawkeye was there in the manga... i gotta keep going with how i love how... gory this anime is xDDDD i'm so proud.... with the end of this episode and the next which has one of the many, many great fights of the series, i have finally bumped up the series to a 9/10. few anime have gotten there for me. i just don't want to believe that we are halfway done with the anime if it'll only be 50 episodes long D= actually the anime is quite gory and its only going to increase xD |
| Woah true forms :o |
| Seriously Awesome. |
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| Soo, here we go, another episode in this already awesome series : 3 In general, great episode, as always lately : D I don't really feel like writing anything else much now though, since I have a test in Japanese tomorrow, and I have to study. (Yeah I count anime as studying Japanese! : D) Maybe I'll write something on of the coming days, or at least respond to some other post if I find it arguable enough x) Oh one thing though, goddammit Ling is actually cool! xD And so is May : D Still.. Was that actually what Ed said? Guess we might get to know sometime : o Wait What?! What was Winry thinking there? O.O Gee, or well.. actually, I was wating for that : 3 Gluttony goes *RAAAAAAAAAAAAGE* O.o And I seem to have written more than I was going to ^^, Anyway, epic ED is epic, kthnxbai Edit: Fai said: YepP.S. DId preview REALLY Have to include THAT character? -.- |
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N_Ox said: AoiMemori said: This anime is not that gory.yes, hawkeye was there in the manga... i gotta keep going with how i love how... gory this anime is xDDDD i'm so proud.... with the end of this episode and the next which has one of the many, many great fights of the series, i have finally bumped up the series to a 9/10. few anime have gotten there for me. i just don't want to believe that we are halfway done with the anime if it'll only be 50 episodes long D= N_Ox said: I have seen Higurashi (uncut dvd version) and Elfen Lied. This is way more gory then those. It is not at sick as those animes, but it shows alot more blood and the gore looks way more realistic then in Elfen Lied and Higurashi. |
| Lots of action, and judging by the preview it's not the end of it. Thassodar said: AND MANGA READERS PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP COMPARING STUFF IN THE MANGA TO THE SHOW BECAUSE THEY'RE FULL OF SPOOOOILERS. DO YOU KNOW WHAT SPOOOOOILERS ARE CHILDREN? Content which was not used and will never be used does not count as spoilers. It counts as deleted scenes :)It's still unnecessary, and also (somewhat) spoiler for those who want to read the manga later. |
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| I personally thought this was a very well done episode, as always. I can't wait to see next week. Did you guys pay attention to Gluttony's transformation at the end??? Holy schitt!!!! |
| NOOOO RAN FAN/NANA-CHAN. ; _ ; Gluttony broke free. |
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omnidaze said: Episode was fine. The storytelling seems a bit forced compare to the rest of the series. That. Average episode, if it isn't for the awesome ending and cliffhanger. |
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| It was an OK episode - lots happened but I felt it jumped around a lot in random directions. For example, one moment, we have the epic battle between Scar and Ed and Al. Then, it jumps to Ling and Bradley and then cuts to Ran Fan in the sewers. Then it cuts to Gluttony and Ling joining in on the battle with Scar. We also have Riza and Mustang in and out in the first half. Then Mei randomly appears to save Scar...and then we have a car scene with Ed, Al, and the panda, meeting with Winry, a small bit of Winry development with the phone call, train and love realization scene, etc. etc. It all just felt "all over the place" rather than following one (or just a few) direction(s). Or...maybe I'm just tired as hell and so confused by life in general that I can't quite follow things as I normally can.... |
| - omg, ran fan! she's so courageous! :O -YEAHH, EDWARD FINALLY WEARS SOMETHING ELSE! it's a blue shirt! sexyyy6! :) - woow, winry have just realised that she likes edward :O -and OMFG! glutonny is soo O_O can't wait for the next epsiode :P |
| Arm... T_T |
| I'm with Aeterna and Jacut...just ok. I totally forgot about Panda-girl, so I was very angry when she showed up out of nowhere after how many episodes? I just wanted Ran Fan to kill herself since she hasn't really been useful at all, and I really want Scar dead because he's such a distraction from the main story. Gluttony and his stomach is a really stupid concept, so I'm hoping this marks his doom so I don't have to hear him whine about Lust anymore. The only character who really looks like they've developed at all from the start of the series is Al, which makes me happy because he's doing everything I hoped he be capable of; on the flipside, everyone else is mind bogglingly stagnant. Winry's, "Oh, I'm in love with him." Was just so dumb and uninspired. I hate her so much more than the first series where she was more of a nuisance. |
| Ran-fan :( I'm hoping this'll be the end for Gluttony as well. He just isn't a character I like at all. Way to single minded, it's either eating, or crying about Lust. |
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noteDhero said: Woah there, that's a little harsh. I don't see how she's been useless seeing as she's been protecting Ling since who knows how long. Not to mention she helped the two of them escape.I just wanted Ran Fan to kill herself since she hasn't really been useful at all noteDhero said: You don't even know the concept from this episode so I would hardly jump to conclusions like this.Gluttony and his stomach is a really stupid concept noteDhero said: Um, how is a character actually acknowledging their feelings a bad thing?Winry's, "Oh, I'm in love with him." Was just so dumb and uninspired. I hate her so much more than the first series where she was more of a nuisance. |
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| Ling has not needed her assistance. He's been more than capable the whole time I've seen him on screen. The both of them are more like just formal escorts who don't actually protect him. If she had killed herself, Ling would not have felt like he had to go find her, thereby revealing themselves to Bradley. I'm talking about the art itself. The teeth, the eye, it's just beyond dumb. I don't know about the actual function, but I just don't care. I want him dead already. He's annoying. She's not acknowledging it, she's discovering it. The tone was that of, "Oh wow, I didn't know I was in love with him." Which I find ridiculously thick. As I said, it was handled in a dumb and uninspired way. |
noteDhero said: A gigantic part of Ling's is wanting to be a king that helps his people. He would have never accepted her killing herself. Bradley would have gladly abandoned Lan Fan which is why he's considered Ling's opposite.Ling has not needed her assistance. He's been more than capable the whole time I've seen him on screen. The both of them are more like just formal escorts who don't actually protect him. If she had killed herself, Ling would not have felt like he had to go find her, thereby revealing themselves to Bradley. I'm talking about the art itself. The teeth, the eye, it's just beyond dumb. I don't know about the actual function, but I just don't care. I want him dead already. He's annoying. She's not acknowledging it, she's discovering it. The tone was that of, "Oh wow, I didn't know I was in love with him." Which I find ridiculously thick. As I said, it was handled in a dumb and uninspired way. The teeth and the eye are a design that will appear over and over again and in fact have already appeared. So I guess you'll be tortured to see it over and over again. She's known him since they were kids and has essentially always cared for him. This is just her realizing that lately her feelings have matured towards him. They haven't exactly been spending their teenage years together seeing as he left when they were both around twelve. |
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| I'm not talking about whether or not Ling is attached to her and his reasons. I'm talking about Ran Fan being useless, and needing to kill herself so that she isn't a hindrance to Ling. It was very clear he wasn't going to do that the minute he slung her over his back. Maybe I will maybe I won't, but Gluttony being a big manifestation of that design is bonkers and not in a good way. Then again, I've felt his character never meshed well with the total aesthetic of the show in the first place. I understand everything that the show is doing here with Winry. It's not groundbreaking. I'm saying it's handled dumbly, and in a cliche, boring way. |
| Basically, Ran-Fan's situation is pretty much a plot device to showcase Ling's ideals and the stark contrast with Bradley's ideals. And it is true that Ran-fan and the other guy (whose name I forget) are with Ling pretty much only "because" he's of semi-importance in his home country, that doesn't just makes them completely useless. Apparently someone can't stand anyone who's not a main player. And some people can't seem to handle more than one fight running at the same time. This one wasn't like the last time. This time both the fights HAVE to run at parallel because Scar's fight is a decoy for Ling's fight with Wrath and Gluttony. They happen at the same time, and I found they did a decent job at showing you both, Scar's getting the larger chunks since that battle was less one-sided and featured the main character. |
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| I thought it was another great episode, it really leaves me wanting to see the next one which few series recently have done. |
| It just so happens that I can't stand some of the supporting characters in this show because they take up so much content and stall the progress of the story proper. I hated that Al's glorious ascension into an active character is stalled once by Winry, and then again by Panda girl. For those who care, these are the characters I like/find interesting: Al, Mustang, Bradley, Hohenheim, Ling In the case of Ran Fan, I honestly didn't care about her one way or the other up to this episode since she hasn't done anything. But here, she totally stands in the way of the safety of Ling, extending into the success of this whole mission. We've seen nothing about her as a character in her own right, and as you've said, she is a plot device to showcase Ling's ideals, and since she's served her purpose, she needed to exit. We've been trimming the tree lately, so why can't she be pruned? I'd have to take this as a cue that she is more important, which baffles me slightly. |
Leon-Gun said: And some people can't seem to handle more than one fight running at the same time. This one wasn't like the last time. This time both the fights HAVE to run at parallel because Scar's fight is a decoy for Ling's fight with Wrath and Gluttony. They happen at the same time, and I found they did a decent job at showing you both, Scar's getting the larger chunks since that battle was less one-sided and featured the main character. I get that and it wasn't hard to follow, per se. I think it was just handled poorly in that the episode kept jumping from one thing to another very quickly with poor transition leading to poor flow from one scenario to the next. Moreover, I couldn't tell what they were trying to accomplish in this episode. There was some nice EdxWinry development (and even a bit of just-Winry development), but that was mostly in the beginning and end of the episode. In-between, we had the two simultaneous battles, which was fine. But we also had the re-introduction of Mei (who I had been wondering about recently, since she's largely disappeared since her random introduction), more Roy Mustang subplot, a Ran Fan almost dying and then being treated (and as others have said, showing Ling's character as a result), and Gluttony being captured and subsequently freaking out. So, basically, what was the focus of this episode? I can't quite pin it down onto 3 or less things. I can't help but feel that they tried to stuff too much into one episode, or at least did it a bit poorer than they have with previous action-packed episodes. Again, however, I was very tired when I watched this episode so perhaps my mind was just slow and will have to re-watch this episode when I'm actually awake and alert. Still, those were my impressions of the episode. |
noteDhero said: Because killing off a character without giving them a chance to develop is even worse? Which I guess Brotherhood is having issues with (hello Hughes) though. :|In the case of Ran Fan, I honestly didn't care about her one way or the other up to this episode since she hasn't done anything. But here, she totally stands in the way of the safety of Ling, extending into the success of this whole mission. We've seen nothing about her as a character in her own right, and as you've said, she is a plot device to showcase Ling's ideals, and since she's served her purpose, she needed to exit. We've been trimming the tree lately, so why can't she be pruned? I'd have to take this as a cue that she is more important, which baffles me slightly. I wont comment on any speculation about her importance since I am trying to avoid any spoilers. |
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| i feel sorry for ran fan.. she cut her own arm.. great episode btw. :] |
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| Now that was a great episode, I laughed hard at the baby panda/Al moment. |
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| Awesome episode; Gluttony finally on a rage; wasn't all hyped about scar escaping; I want me a cute panda >_<; Yay!! finally she admits she's in love with Ed. |
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| the panda is being "kidnapped" lol so CUTE XD  |
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| Awesome episode! Extremely good! We finally get to see that Ling, a random annoying character, turns out to be a talentfull prince who is skilled in speed, escaping, and most of all, battling homunculus without any alchemy! That was awesome! He turned to an annoying character, to one of my favourites. Also the girl who lost her arm will become great in battle, with her metal arm she will become quite useful. :) |
Znote said: Also the girl who lost her arm will become great in battle, with her metal arm she will become quite useful. :) I hereby propose a spin off series - Fullmetal Ninja. |
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Fai said: Znote said: Also the girl who lost her arm will become great in battle, with her metal arm she will become quite useful. :) I hereby propose a spin off series - Fullmetal Ninja. Sounds good, do it |
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adamantine said: - Speaking of which, seeing Ranfan getting fixed up by Dr. Knox hit me a lot harder than in the manga thanks to her seiyuu. Yep, me too. Ranfan/Lan Fan is really devoted to Ling, isn't she? Then again, who wouldn't be xP ...But seriously, the arm scene was great. Winry realising her feeling made me lol a little, it was so shoujo-ish. Xiao Mei's hierarchy pyramid was the Crowning Moment of Funny. Not to mention I love pandas, so it made me happy :"D SAVE THEM SPECIES. That will suck so badly if they become extinct Dx And yay, one of my favourite scenes with Ling! I never had any doubts - he's my favourite character in this series, period. Can't wait for The Belly! |
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