Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood 64- Journey's End Early Reaction!

I’m being dramatic for entertainment. Don’t feel obligated to react to it if you don’t want to btw

Professor Oswin

You need to react to The 2003 version and it’s movie. You NEED TO WATCH IT. PLEASE WATCH IT MAN 😭😭😭 it’s heavy on character development. It’s different too. So you don’t have to worry about getting bored. I beg you *sniff*

Professor Oswin

Oof, that's a good point that I hadn't considered :\ I'm glad to hear that I've been able to help you cope!

Eric Reacts

hahaha that's great

Eric Reacts

T_T I don't want it to end

Eric Reacts

It's been fun watching you fall in love with the characters and story! I feel you, I need for canon post-climax content lol!

I've been catching up on his reactions to FMAB and I notice all your comments! I love how you give a voice to the passion I feel for this series too! There are just so many wonderful messages inbedded in the series all tied together with a tight plot. It's amazing. I managed to get my hands on the artbooks but one is available in Japan only. In it, Arakawa point-blank says Mustang & Hawkeye would definitely had been together all this time if not for the law in the Amestrian military forbidding dating between soldiers. If you are interested in post-canon fanfics have been a long-time reader of shu-of-the-wind's Swallows on the Beam! It's a Ling/Lan Fan fic with Lan Fan as the MC. Ling has her appointed as his personal bodyguard once Emperor (of course) hears of a possible coup d'etat against him from another clan. Lan Fan goes from bodyguard to under-cover spy as a minor noble lady from the nomadic Ma clan. You might like it, it's plot is obviously different from the feel of the series proper, but I'm just as drawn in. And Al & Mei are in it too.

This isn't really an orginal thought, but it can be amusing to think that Mustang doesn't really have a mustache and Ed just drew one on the photo for fun. :P

Rogue Agent

An amazing show. Compelling characters, a powerful message - Ed's final lines about "a heart made fullmetal" always get me, no matter how many times I watch this series. My personal headcanon is that Hawkeye and Mustang did eventually get together, that May and Al got together, and that Ling and Lan Fan got together... but it's hard to know how much of that was supported by the manga author's intention. You definitely don't get closer than literally sharing your body with a homunculus, that's for sure. I would have been more surprised if they hadn't rubbed off on each other. I'm sure everyone involved has their own traumas they're overcoming, but I like that the series ended on a happy note after everything that they went through, especially everything that happened after the 5th Laboratory when Ed met the Slicer Brothers. That was the point where everything really spiraled out of control. I don't know if you'd be interested in adding it to a movie review, but there was a full-length FMAB movie as well - Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos. It's not as good as the series, but it's an interesting addition to the canon. It does take place mid-way through the series rather than being a follow up, but it could be an interesting reaction to wrap up the FMAB series.

Megan Saunders

Been a pleasure watching the series with you. What a series, right? If you can check FMA(2003 version), why not try that too? While FMAB follows original manga work by Hiromu Arakawa, FMA(2003) takes liberty to reinterpret and makes its own storyline. Both based on same manga, but FMAB is an hymn to humanity while FMA is a criticism of human. I'm sure it will be an interesting journey. There is one thing I would like to comment, though. When Ling Yao promises Mei to make sure his clan will take care all 50 clans under its wings, it weirdly sounds like 'Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere'. The idea that the strongest clan gives protection to the others while making sure it maintain its dominant position, sounds like what Japan Imperialists forced other nations to accept. I love FMAB and its original manga, but that bothers me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity_Sphere Anyhow, thanks again for the reaction. Your FMAB reaction helped me a lot coping through 2020.

Seunghan Rhie