Suffice to say that FMA:B doesn’t shy away from the serious and dark nature of the events that occur. The show goes into how that becomes the case, so I won’t go into the details of it here. Perhaps “in” is the wrong word for it Alphonse Elric is the suit of armour. The Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward Elric and his younger brother Alphonse Elric who wanders about in a big suit of armour. The 2 main characters are the Elric brothers. After all, what is as valuable as a human life? So far, so simple, right. The second is the big taboo, that you can’t conduct human transmutation. You can’t make something out of nothing, something of equal value has to be exchanged. There’s 2 key things about how it works first is the law of equivalent exchange. It can be used for healing & mending or, as is often the case, it can be used to destroy and kill. Alchemists in this universe can use their understanding of the make-up of objects to transmute (alter) it and reshape the world around them from creating weapons or reshaping landscapes they’ve a broad range of things they can do with alchemy. The key difference between the real 1914 and the one in the show is, of course, alchemy. So we’ve got steam trains, basic cars, telephones, wirelesses, Victorian-esque architechture and the like. The show is set in an alternate world, similar to our own, in the year 1914. So, when FMA:B decided it was going to grab my attention… it didn’t hold back with the punch to the gut it delivered. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is the latter. Some shows will never get your attention and resign themselves to being on in the background Others fight to bring you into them. Watched a show while fiddling with our phones only to realise about three quarters of the way in, that we’ve missed something important because we’d been looking at the latest “dank memes” or whatever. For the first few episodes, I had been watching but not giving it my full attention. Though it is clearly my own fault, I guess. What I am going to tell you is how I’ve felt about it since finishing “Part 1” (or, the first 13 episodes). “What happened?” you ask I’m not going to tell you as that would spoil it. I don’t think I could have been less prepared for it if I’m honest. I really wasn’t prepared for what would happen in Episode 4. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood caught me out big time.
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