Ed getting taller in Fullmetal alchemist (Episode 46 & Dub) 

I wouldn't say clearly - it only becomes clear, once you rewatch the episodes. But yeah, it's nice to see them visually changing as the story progresses.

Yup. Over the passage of time in fmab you can see ed getting hotter and more ripped

It's not passage of time. Remember that in episode 41 he got severely injured by a pole and used his own vitality to heal the wound with alchemy. He said that it would shorten a few years of his life span.

That doesn't necessarily mean Ed would start randomly growing, The whole show takes place over the course of about 2 years with Ed starting out as a 15 year old and ending when hes 17 or 18, it's safe to say the main storyline goes on for several months so it makes sense for Ed to grow taller and more muscular, on top of that even characters like Winry exhibit growth and development compared to when we first see her, growth _is_ subtly used to show passage of time

@@slimjimjr96 **facepalm**. Rewatch episode 41, pay close attention to what Ed says at the end of it. It is NOT passage of time. He grows and ages in a very short period of time between 2 episodes and he explains why that happened in ep 41. You guys did not paid attention on the story at all.

That statement she made was kind of stupid when you think about it 😂

@@MillyKKitty She was just a little girl at that time tho. Do you know how many stupid statements I made when I was little?😂

@@M_JackOfAllTrades Some wishes from childhood do come true 😂

Oh hmmmm

Lol

LavenousForever _nope xD_

Would laugh if he married her just so that he could split the cost health insurance

2, it’s 2

In reality he would probably have brain damage or worst. I got a concussion and whiplash in gym and I can’t remember anything that happened that day.

Y'all know the blooper where he says lets bring mom back thats the cause of the wrench lmao

An he looks hotter-

The whole anime takes place in just 1 year. He starts out looking like a scruffy toddler and ends up a whole ass man

@@jynxx37 it doesnt tho?? it starts when ed is 15 and ends when hes somewhere between 17 and 18. we also know that part of why ed is short was a mix of his energy going to als body at the gate (which is why he eats and sleeps so much, hes doing it for two people) and of his automails weight likely stunting his growth. so it makes sense that since winry learned to make him a lighter automail + time passing hed get a bit taller and mature looking. some teenage boys get hit by puberty like a truck

@@lemonknife From when we first meet them traveling to Liore/Reole to the Promised Day, it's about a year of time. There's a tiny epilogue in the books that shows how things ended up for some of the characters after a few-year time skip. In that epilogue, Ed is 18, Al is 16, and Mustang is 32.

@@genesisdawn6672 which books?

Cargo The Great Nice one!

2 year? 1 comment?

3 year? 2 comment?

He’d probably have her do it again if he could grow another couple of inches

every short person reading this: *write that down write that down!!!*

Not just taller - his physique is also more defined and muscular, especially in this scene. It could be that the artists did so to emphasize his physical maturity.

rewatch episode 41. It has nothing to do with time.

TheKrustaceoX could you explain?

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@@VashVintage He is dead convinced that Ed "shortening his lifespan" by healing himself after the bar went through him means he physically aged a couple years in a short time span. That's literally not how that phrase works. Like others said there's episodes where theres MONTHS that go by between two episodes. Ed is about 18 when the story ends and 19 during the epilogue. He was 15 at the beginning of the story. There's a HUGE difference between how a 15 year old and an 18 year old look. Also. The reason Ed wasn't growing properly and ate and slept so much was revealed to have been due to the link between him and Al's body. He was literally eating and growing and sleeping for two. His growth kicks in even more when that link starts to weaken and become unstable. But yeah. The dude is being stubborn about giving a different meaning to a well established phrase in any spoken and written language. Doesnt realize that when you might've lived for say 70 years, cutting a couple years of your lifespan means you might die at 65 instead. Not that in that moment youre gonna age up 5 years overnight. Just leave him to it.

Eh, how about pride?

@@fitrianhidayat well, pride became a fetus by the end of their fight with father and by the last episode, pride is a toddler so....

What about Mustang and his team? Aside from the obvious beard on Havoc, I don't really remember them changing much.

@@renimusmaximus Well after people reach a certain age in adulthood they don't really change that much when years pass until they start entering the 40's more or less, but for kids and teens it is really noticeable

it's called character development.

When I first saw the show and one of the openings I think the second one had his dad when he was young I swear I thought it was an older ed. He looks exactly like his father

Marie Kano exactly same here I thought that was ed time skipped or something he looked hot ngl

@@mariekano9730 I'm always surprised by the number of people who thought it was older Ed lol. In my case, as soon as I first saw him,I knew he was the estranged dad who left him. He was too mysterious to not make an appearance in the later story.

@@skyward7903 I mean it is a time skip because it’s 6 months

his biggest nightmare tbh

Yeah why point out he's stature? People like him come in SHORT supplies

Come on guys, don't sell him *short.* He's trying to make a good joke.

STOP

Mooney the Mudkip You seem to have a short fuse.

I can't think of a short joke FUCK!!!!

I’ve never known an old married couple that beat each other with wrenches.

@@xVx_Krt_xVx_KillMe calling someone an old married couple doesn't actually imply that they are a couple it means that they often argue with eachother like how old couples do

Well they are married

@@lydiabrasser2920 they were not married in this episode or even dating.

Yes true

You easily have a thousand years on me

Wɪɴʀʏ Roᴄᴋʙeʟʟ Damn milennial!

Wɪɴʀʏ Roᴄᴋʙeʟʟ damn;-;

_yup_

Didnt know fossils can talk 😏

In every anime, there is a Character Development

@@saxistaja2 of course, but I think that FMAB executes it very well. Often times in anime, one event will cause the character to change dramatically. In FMAB he slowly becomes more mature throughout the show. He went from a petulant kid who wouldn't drink milk to a man, and I only realized when comparing beginning scenes to end scenes.

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That's why he is my fav protagonist

So his height is tied to his character development

Winry’s sexy and cute regardless of her 15 year old self or her 18 year old self😍🥰

​@@HypocriteHunter666 🤨📸

@@zeph519 Huh?

It also speaks volumes for the animators, as animating that progressions is difficult without it being obvious. This is why time skips are prefered in both forms of media.

Yup UwU

Ew

@E.W. Hans winry broke the equivalent exchange saying "I will give all of it", instead of half of it

Yeah so accurate literally me and my husband, we have arguments just like that!! But again we’re still happy, no matter how bad our days are we still stick together till the very end.

Katy Nadal more like she was stupid to think a promise would change anything. So what? He diesn t promise mean he wont do everything he can?

Because he loves her so do all that for love

@@user-eg7kx1qm6q I know that he loves her I honestly think it was at this moment realized that he loves her. I don't remember I think they said there was a point when Ed did. I just don't remember when.

@@katynadal6646 Edward and Alphonse both had crush on her, they said that they would often fought who would marry her and she rejected Alphonse

@@unlimited971 I think it was because if you make a promise, you'll try harder and not give up. I don't think she wanted magical promises.

Cindy67917 Since he stopped being short and hot

Cindy67917 in the few months since he got a lighter arm.

After he healed his wound from the pole stabbed into his stomach, it shortened his life span

Cindy67917 1st of all he was always hot, and he grow very slowly during the whole series

Cindy67917 I know right

BTS_Trash it's anime, everyone has baby face

DoHickey except for jojos even babies have a manly face

XDD

Yes I know he still has a baby face

It's called an art style. It also retains Asian features.

kataclysm77 definitely going to do this next time I rewatch it 😂

I'm down

im TOTALLY in!

but I'm lactose. I'd just die

@@UrSammich Almond milk or smthing works too

The best, if you don’t count Avatar as an anime.

@@orppranator5230 tbh I think there's a lot this show does better than avatar

I feel like no anime can match aot and fmab type level. Only of the fandom was a peaceful tho

@@duvaruva AoT is not as good as FMA Brotherhood. The ending is bad and there's not really character development for anyone outside of Eren. And the larger cast of characters aren't as memorable as they are in FMA Brotherhood

@@maxh276 for me aot comes in 1st and fmab in 2nd. And the ending was only in manga. Remember fma? How it not followed the manga. I think ending will be changed in anime. And there are great characters like gabi, jean, reiner, bertholdt, levi & historia who had a good development in the series. Still both animes are masterpiece

Facts

💯% disagree 😡

@@formeraccount7878 why's that?

@@Hi-fh8ij i guess we'll never know

He's probably into Roy/Ed & Risa/Winry or some other similar stuff.

rewatch episode 41. You get an explanation of Edward himself about how he aged so fast in a short period of time.

@thekrustaceox God you're an idiot

Show don't tell

TheKrustaceoX Like that one guy said, an 8 year old that’s going to die from cancer in 2 years isn’t going to suddenly become a fucking decrepit old man. You’re a fucking idiot.

*Show not tell.*

A real man

JEBAITED

Because of two factors: He got a lighter automail limbs and used his lifespan to heal himself fom teh incident with the pipe, bassically he's aging rapidly since Ed looks now on his late teens to early twenties

Ed may not drink milk, but all the fights must be making him stronger. Plus we've seen him eat huge steaks, so that must be helping his growth.

@@blakepax2768 Somewhat but not entirely. Cutting down his lifespan doesnt mean he will age rapidly. And he IS in his late teens at this point. The lighter automail and the link between him and Al's body weakening contributed to him getting the growth spurts that he pretty much missed out on, cuz his body was also keeping Al's body growing at the gate. He was literally growing two bodies. Hence the amount he ate and the amount he slept being ridiculously much for someone his age. But yea he's more or less about 18 here. 19 during the epilogue, or 20 at best during the epilogue. But he doesnt change as much by that point. You dont change a huge amount from 18 to 20. Meanwhile the difference between a 15 year old and an 18 year old is very clear. Using his lifespan to heal himself just means what the phrase actually means. That he'll die earlier.

@@pcrassen4975 he's 16 tho

Nicole Garcia it kinda reminded me of something katara would have said to aang in atla.

The Capuchin King YASS

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gay

With the amount of close calls he had before this, our boy went from idealist to realist

Ditto

AppleShy The White Witch It’s because there was a time skip.

@@ana-maria8248 wrong. Rewatch episode 41. He aged because he used his own vitality to heal that pole wound. He said it himself that it would shorten his life spam (aka aging)

@@thekrustaceox5181 I mean, that's a way of interpreting it, but as I see it the time skip is enough to explain this. Think about it, a few months have passed since we (and Winry) have last seen Ed and boys his age tend to be in the middle of a growth spourt. Now you may ask : "But why hadn't Ed grown until then?". Well, it's because (and this is not entirely mine, is a theory I saw online) during the winter and spring, when the time skip occurred, Ed no longer had the old heavy automail on him. He had the new lighter one that no longer put a strain on him, so he could grow up a little more naturally. People believe that if Ed hadn't had the automail, he would have been much taller by now, just like a normal boy his age. And regarding your statement about him aging due to him using his life force to survive, well, that would have resulted in an instant growth spourt, making Ed growing a few inches and looking older in a matter of seconds.

@@ana-maria8248 as i said rewatch episode 41 and pay attention to what Ed says at the end.

@@thekrustaceox5181 Literally not how that phrase works. "Shortening my lifespan" doesnt mean I will age years in the matter of a couple days. It means not living for as long as you could've otherwise. You take a bullet to the head that shortens your lifespan significantly too. Youre not gonna age years in the matter of a couple days. And again, rewatch the whole series. There's subtle changes to the characters physically as time goes on, even before episode 41. Ed's face changes even before episode 41. Winry changes too. Or how would you explain Winry looking like an actual woman here, compared to how she looked at the beginning of the series? Did Ed shortening his life span age EVERYONE up not just him?

Still got that babyface

Cedric Francis somewhere at Rooster Teeth heard that exact line and ideas brewed

😂😂😂

Lmfaoo

Cedric Francis LoL! Now I can think of him as that instead of just being a jerk...!

Hes sounds like Qrow doesnt he? ;)

Starspeedmoon ANIME than*

Really? You are correcting "Than" when he spelled taller "teller"...Ohh and to answer your question Star it actually happened very slowly throughout the show! You can see hints of him slowly but steadily becoming taller and taller as they go through their journey. It is actually really impressive and cool since most Animes conveniently forget about that part despite their protagonist being young people that really should be growing and get older through their sometimes several years of travel-

bibbobella Yeah good point. Also yes I did notice the height progression, just another reason why this show is so great.

Starspeedmoon ANIME he got new automail that's lighter so he can grow

There was a 6 month time gap between this episode and the one before it (The Promised Day)

Real 👍

Right, even tho it was harsh what he said he has a point. Even tho he wants to save everyone, there’s a chance of failure, and that chance of failure is nerve wrecking. Sometimes being real with yourself and coming to terms with reality is part of life so might as well hope for the best and fear for the worst sometimes.

That was a damn good observation

Caesar00Chan ikr, it goes to show how mature he’s become and how much he evolved as a character. I’d bet anything the little pipsqueak Ed wouldn’t hesitate to jump in the scene and play hero, overestimating himself, only to get Auto-mails wrecked and a suffer a harsh reality check.

I just really like that annoyed sigh he does at Winry before he leaves.

Lol me too for some reason😂

Darius, Heinkel, Major Armstrong, Scar, Hohenheim, Captain Buccaneer they're all massive humans

@@IkesPimpHand scar isn't massive just kinda tall and hoenheim is big bodied

@@IkesPimpHand Armstrong is fucking 7 foot tall. He's the man I aspire to be.

@@akumasstorytime3910 once Armstrong accepted his duty and decided never to run away from battle ever again, it was one of the BEST moments of the anime. My eyes are stinging just thinking about it. Juxtaposed with his small scene of him having trouble coping in the anime intro song(i forget the name), just perfect. Seriously,though, the anime is FILLED with exemplary humans.

What's sad is that he's leaving because of hateful accusations against him. :(

LOL

fights, runaways

All those fights made him stronger 💪

On the job training

From the time when he gets impaled with the beam to the time he runs into Winry in her old house here, several months had gone by. He had plenty of time to train. Plus he got older which naturally gives him a more muscular build.

He's still short for an average white teenager. He was 4'11" at the beginning, now he's 5'6".

🤣🤣😂

When he used alkahestry to seal his wound up with his own life energy it aged him to have the physical body of a 19yr old or so That’s why he said it would shorten his lifespan Which explains why he gets taller in the matter of around 4 episodes

Ikr

Why? The anime ended perfectly it doesn't need a continuation

He is more realistic now. He now realizes, he is not strong enough to be overconfident and something can go wrong an every moment. That means, he grew up not physically, but mentally also.