FMAB 29 Full Reaction
Added 2025-08-11 19:00:07 +0000 UTCFull uncut reaction to Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood Episode 29
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Okay so the distinction could just be as simple as Alkhestry vs. Alchemy, I think because of the medicinal use of Alkhestry we didn't consider the answer could be as simple as that.
Bethany and Ken
2025-08-14 15:19:22 +0000 UTCWell said!
Bethany and Ken
2025-08-14 15:13:11 +0000 UTCFather absorbed the old Greed’s and Gluttony’s stones, so he can recreate them. But Lust was burned to death by Roy, so she can’t be brought back.
Jeffery Sit
2025-08-13 10:18:27 +0000 UTCYeah King Bradley is THE politician of this series, and has been that way literally since episode 1. Just the way he talks and carries himself, it's enough to command fear and respect at the same time, and all that is without even revealing his powers as a homonculus. It's him and Greed that are my favorite, since every time they show up on screen the story takes a sudden tone shift that drives the plot even further
J Sal
2025-08-13 08:59:03 +0000 UTCEven though Bradley is a human-based homunculus, I have to say there wasn't much humanity left in the guy when Father Wrath was added to Bradley.
Guru_Rick_
2025-08-12 12:41:42 +0000 UTCThe panda's name is Shao Mei, and the little girl is May Chang, from the Chang clan. Ling is from the Yao clan, so he's Ling Yao, and his attendants are Lan Fan (the girl) and Fu (the old man). Ling is the 12th son of the Emperor, and May just revealed that she's the 17th daughter, so Ling and May are also half-siblings. Whether that is birth order or not isn't clear, because Ling had previously revealed that his father has 43 kids out of the 50 clans of Xing. 24 sons and 19 daughters. May looks to be around 9 or 10, and I believe Ling is supposed to be Ed's age, which would put him at around 15 or 16 at this point in the show. So if it's birth order in how they are identifying themselves, then Ling has 11 older brothers or sisters, and May has 16 older brothers or sisters, which also means there are 26 additional children who could be anywhere from 9 to 10 years old down to infancy. If they're speaking only in terms of which son or daughter they are, "Ling is the 12th son out of 24 sons" and May is the "17th daughter out of 19 daughters" it gets a little murkier as far as where they actually fall in terms of birth order, other than that May is younger than Ling, and there's no way to know how many older or younger half-siblings they may each have. Birth order also doesn't seem to matter as far as who inherits, since Ling mentioned every clan was trying to curry favor with the Emperor, so it sounds like the Emperor just picks the child who pleases him the most to be the next Emperor or Empress (although Emperor would be my guess, since Ling also said that the daughter of each clan's chief becomes one of the Emperor's wives and bears his children. If it were an Empress on the throne, I don't see there being possibly 49 husbands, and the Empress having to give birth to that many children. Ling probably has the advantage there just in terms of the fact that he's male.) It's been mentioned in the past (so no spoiler), but in Amestris they practice Alchemy, but in Xing (where Ling and May are from) they practice Alkahestry. Ling made a point of saying that Alkahestry is very medical specialized, although May can clearly use it offensively as well. May also said that the tattoos Scar has are Alkahestry as well. In the Ishval flashback, when we learned about Scar's brother, Scar's brother also said that he had studied both Alchemy and Alkahestry and then put his own twist on it to combine the two. He said, "My right arm deconstructs, and my left arm reconstructs". Up to this point, we've only seen Scar deconstruct because the arm he received from his brother was his brother's right arm. Scar isn't a true alchemist - he's never studied it. He's just relying on the tattoos on the arm he received from his brother. He may have studied a little bit as he was learning the new ability, but he's not an alchemist the way Ed, Al, and Mustang are.
Megan Saunders
2025-08-11 23:28:23 +0000 UTCI don’t think lust would come back since she didn’t return to father body like greed & gluttony did, that just my theory
Luhbabytay
2025-08-11 22:09:52 +0000 UTCStill like the other greed but this one might grow on me
Luhbabytay
2025-08-11 22:07:28 +0000 UTCGreed is very interesting and Bethany did a great analysis as to why he does his own thing a lot.
Kami_Psy
2025-08-11 22:01:46 +0000 UTCI love how chill Greed is lol my favorite Homunculus.
Yoshitsune92
2025-08-11 21:11:31 +0000 UTCHappy Birthday btw
JT
2025-08-11 20:29:00 +0000 UTCFullmetal Alchemist Bitcrushed
JT
2025-08-11 19:03:20 +0000 UTCGlad you seem to be feeling better, Ken. It’s my 21st so I’m gonna finish this later over some drinks! Have a great day you guys Edit: went a little overboard, but it’ll probably be the only night of that for a long time 😭. Got through the hangover too. I’m alive!
Chris Collier
2025-08-11 19:02:26 +0000 UTCDamn, we got crunchy audio Ken and Bethany today 😆
Chris Collier
2025-08-11 19:01:39 +0000 UTC
