ANIME NOOB REACTS... | Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 15 - "Envoy From the East" 

Another great episode yall! I love the brothers! New Arcane reaction drops tomorrow! 🎉

5:10 "I need to wrap up with some of these people we have now." heh heh welcome to anime my friend LOL

Another fun fact, yes, Ling Yao canonically keeps his eyes shut 99% of the time

Small detail from the manga that didn't come across as well in the anime, Scar actually loves animals. His reaction to the panda is meant to be more like shock at the absolute cuteness. Also, I don't think it's ever explicitly mentioned and isn't really a spoiler, but even though she looks really young, Mei Chang is 12. Ed is 15 and Al is 14, so she's not too much younger than them. Ling is definitely one of my favorites. I love that FMAB doesn't really do one-dimensional characters. Good, evil, or morally grey, everyone in this show is interesting and I get invested in their stories.

ahhh yes the good old Mason Jar as a cup gotta love it

There is one small manga chapter skipped in FMAB, Elric Brother went to a mine town call Youswell, which is next to desert, and saved people from Yoki control (The weird guy that following Scar). This story will reveal as a short flashback many episodes later. Anyway May was on Youswell when she enter this country, people mention Ed is a young genius alchemist with a beautiful golden long braid and eyes, May was immediately crush on him and want to find him😂. But she don't know people forget to mention Ed is small, so the imaginary image is totally wrong😂.

The other commenters mentioned most about Xing and Ling are spot on. You were right about May being Ling’s half sibling from another clan, I won’t mention more because spoiler. Also Yoki traveling with Scar was mentioned in an earlier episode in a report Mustang’s men was working on. At this point neither Ed or Al know that Hughes is dead. The pacing of episodes will be more balanced from here on out.

17:20 They do not Armstrong never told them when he saw them.

Another solid reaction, I really enjoyed the commentary seeing you formulate different connections and giving alternate predictions that are all informed by the new plot elements being introduced. Take care bud see you in the next one.

My guy has earned so many more subs

Yes Edward and basically all of Amestris is coded as white and loosely based on Germany (there's a lot of Germanic names like Elric, Marcoh, etc and also Bradley is literally called the Fuhrer, the same title the Nazis had for Hitler). The people of Xing are loosely based on China, and even cross a desert that is loosely based on the journey across the Middle East on the Silk Road to go from China to Europe. I'm not sure if the Ishvalans are based on any specific race or region, but they are certainly based on victims of genocide, so they might pull from multiple places, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to really say towards anything in particular. Also Yoki (the mustached guy with Scar) is actually from a story that the anime skipped where he was a one episode joke villain for Ed and Al. Basically a corrupt military officer that they expose and then he's kicked out of town and now he wants his revenge. They will bring it up later, and its not really important, hence why it was skipped, just figured I would give you context. Also not trying to bias you towards any characters, but Ling is my 2nd favorite after Hughes and I think he will grow on you a lot, even if he is quite sneaky

Speaking of Yu-Gi-Oh, YGOTAS is the only canon I accept.

Pausing just to get your thoughts out out before you forget them as a completely valid way to do a reaction, you do you boo boo😅

19:25 Most of my comments are reserved for RU-vid to help combat the RU-vid Algorithm Overlords

I'm going to make a prediction now with absolutely no context given for my reasoning why mind you. I have a feeling you are going to end up liking Ling A LOT. Don't think this is going to be an unpopular opinion either and I feel like anyone reading this who knows why I'm saying this is "Smiling in spoilers" as I like to call it. It's that if you know you know smile.

Yeah yugioh is an anime, aha! A more mainstream one than most so I can see how you didn’t realize before! Also your commentary is why you’re my favorite reaction channel so keep it up!