Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 9 Reaction | Created Feelings | DUB 

Yeah, that did not end well :'D

No kidding

*grabs popcorn*

for some reason I had it in my head that this was gonna be that episode

Thst was my first thought too. I wish I could have told her not to watch another. At least not that day.

@springdeerling7866 have you met Ed? all he does is mess up his automail arm and constantly worry Winry to no end!

@rickymoranjr9609 There is the bottom of a thought bubble when the camera pans down, so she doesn't yell at him. Him constantly making her worry does not change that.

@@kevinkijowski5980 true

More ww1, in fact I seem to recall the year their mother died was given as 1914 on the tombstone.

​@@DaDungea lot of people forget that more people died of disease and pandemics, from non combat causes, than died from murder or combat related infection like trench foot. As brutal as the war was, or was only about half as bad as the diseases that ravaged the world's right then.

Toxic masculinity is not a real thing XD It was just invented as a term for prison inmates.

No, without context it is quite a funny response to seeing a child

Isn't that a little boy or am I seeing things wrong?

It took me a good chunk of episodes to realize that anime isn’t really showing violence, they’re showing feelings and insecurities in those moments.

TIL, all the times I've watched this and never noticed, damn.

@@funnylilgalreacts it’s basically the equivalent of toph in ATLA punching people in the arm to show affection. Winry yelling and hitting them with the wrench is an act of love lol

@@funnylilgalreacts It's an anime-ism, shonen anime does it's own type of cartoon violence that shouldn't exactly be treated as part of the narrative. Especially when it's a female character doing the hitting. It's somewhat justified when she hits Al though since he can't feel pain. But if she really brained Ed with a wrench as often as she does he'd be dead or braindead.

Ah... subtle... good work!

Specially a 14 year old so kind hearted and innocent as Alphonse

al is 12. he hasn't grown in 2 years

@@emkalina Mentally/emotionally he has

@@GodBear97 it's an interesting topic. i don't think it would be possible for him to get emotionally more mature without the hardware that allows that and he is clearly portrayed as much more childish than ed despite their original age difference being not that significant. ed is a moody teenage but al is still a kid with no any other explanation really

@@emkalina I'd argue that Al is more emotionally mature than Ed in a lot of cases. Besides, he clearly has the capacity for feelings, thoughts and memories - I'd say he has what's necessary for emotional growth

but still, the blood is still spilling all the time

Yeah, I don't care who you are, I don't want you and your ilk to be exterminated. Thats not a hard thing to say for decent folk.

It became "political" when wars are mislabled as such by the losing party, even when it initiated it. What's happening in Darfur is a genocide, yet no one knows about it. Why? Because genocide is being used as a rhetorical weapon against a state that can't be defeated militarily by the weaker aggresor. But it can be defamed.

Yeah, it's absolutely insane to see violent protests on college campuses in America calling for the extermination of the Jews... And yet while they stand with an openly genocidal terrorist group that killed over a thousand innocent people, they have the unmitigated GALL to call Israel's retaliation a "genocide..." Absolutely insane that we have somehow allowed colleges to indoctrinate an entire generation of Nazis right here in America...

Isn’t her name also Hiromu? I distinctly remember her drawing herself as a cow in the author’s page of the manga Edit: Yep. Just looked at my copy of the manga. She drew herself as a cow in glasses and panties and wrote fighting panties at the top.

Her legal name is *actually* Hiromi Arakawa; she uses a traditionally-male given name to attract the young male audience. So… Japan’s equivalent to JK Rowling. Except you know, hopefully-*probably* not a complete garbage human being especially given her deeper story themes.

@borjankosarac3645 That’s not a fair comparison. JK Rowling is a talentless hack writer who makes her characters act in nonsensical ways to forcibly make the plot work, and the worldbuilding is legitimately awful.

​@@critica77y77what? You're not a fan of "the slaves like it actually" being a joke by everyone?

They don't show up frequently or have any real role in the series, but there are military police, they are the ones who are in the black uniforms. But, considering that this entire country is a military state, there is effectively no real difference, to be honest.

Likewise, he agreed not to go after Al because Al is not state alchemist

Exactly. From his POV, he is basically removing Amestris' ability to use weapons of mass destruction, which is exactly what the combat alchemists were in the war.

@@SnowyWolborg yep. His horrific experience of how the state alchemist used alchemy in the war on top of his religious beliefs already not reslly condoning alchemy. Just fueling his hatred and holy mission even more

Ouch

Also, what a waste to reapply makeup 😂

I absolutely love this show, but it is going to be brutal on Angela throughout. The story is absolutely worth it though.

It was a terrible day for rain

Oh no, so that happened.

​@@funnylilgalreactsYou still get to look forward to Ed and AL finding out. Lucky...

ehhh I think sometimes this is true but not always. Sometimes there’s just not much to get into before the episode starts so you don’t get a cold open. The no intro thing is definitely indication of importance tho, since it means they didn’t want to waste any runtime on non-story moments.

He was, in fact, not okay

Good trigger discipline though. Didn't point it at them.

@@SapphireDragon357 I mean true, buuuuuuuut still 😂

I don't remember being suspicious of Hughes in the 2003 anime. The art in that is better in some ways nd I like the yellow transmutations over the blue of Brotherhood, wasn't that fond of the ending of the original series though. You build up alot more affection for Maes in the old anime too, I watched the Shamballa movie only because his counterpart was in it.

Poor Morgan never lived that down lmao😅

I can’t really determine, what would be a more distressing truth to find out or rather lie to be gaslighted into believing if I were in Al’s position, because both scenarios that come to mind are pretty bleak. For example the idea of merely being an artificially constructed conscious bound to a suit of armour and given memories of events that never happened so that I would assist my creator/so-called sibling in achieving whatever task I was created for without question, that idea is distressing on multiple levels, whether it be the truth or a horrid lie, if it were the truth that would mean everyone I thought loved me was in on this deception, and leaves open the possibility of being destroyed and replaced, with this new artificial life being unaware of the horrifying truth, and potentially subject to the same horrible fate if the truth were to be revealed to them, on the other hand if that were a lie as it was in Al’s case, I don’t think an apology and a brief fight with everyone who loved me would undo the burning of the bridges between us like it did when Al did it. The alternate scenario is based around the idea of not actually being my soul bonded to a suit of armour by an older sibling but instead unbeknownst to the pair of us, I would be an artificial construct, unintentionally created and operating as a stand-in for my original self, with my sibling’s memories being the basis for my recreated personality and voice, presumably the recreation though unintentional was meticulous given that neither of us noticed a difference until fairly recently. Now assuming we’re operating in a version of the scenario where it turns out to be the truth, if we had our little falling out, fight and reconciliation and came out of it believing the idea to be nothing more than a cruel lie to throw us off our game and turn us into easy prey, only to discover that Barry stand-in was unintentionally right about my status as a recreation of myself, it’s distressing and disturbing imagining the results of said revelation, assuming that the original soul became part of the universe/world/God/Truth and was irretrievable would my sibling fall to despair? Or in the case that it were a lie, but I was operating under the assumption that it was the truth then the idea of not in a sense being me would be unbearable, even if we proved said idea was nothing more than a fabrication, that sort of thought tends to linger and lead to far worse thoughts.

Indeed; of course, the nuances of Amestris have yet to be fully revealed. Just as the Ishvalans can be considered analogous to any persecuted ethnic group (as the Third Reich targeted everyone - the Jewish were just the most prominent victims), we can also draw more modern parallels in their genocide; Arakawa being from northern Japan was more familiar with the plight of the Ainu (the First Nations people of Hokkaido) than most of her colleagues, but the manga also happened to start publication just before the War on Terror and their looking Middle-Eastern is eerie.

One other detail worth mentioning is that Germany, in its history, structure, culture, etc, are brought up in anime more frequently compared to many other cultures. Not all anime will be explicitly trying to draw a parallel like this show does, some take those German references in a very "out of left field" direction, so German references in anime aren't always going to be something to dread.

​@@borjankosarac3645The motive force of the Nazi rise to prominence was, however, the already existing antisemitism. They basically blamed everything they considered "wrong" on the Jews and, because of that, they were the main target of the Holocaust. One of the biggest book burnings was of materials from Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute of Sexology where he performed gender affirming surgeries and lived with his boyfriend, because he was Jewish and loudly queer at the same time. Fortunately, Magnus was able to get out of the country before the institute was ransacked.

Also, king is not part of the title. When I first watched it I thought Bradley was his first name and his title was "führer king" and I only recently found out king is just his first name lol.

Holy shit I'm sorry to have learned this, you absolutely didn't deserve that no matter what your argument was about.

That personal one is dark af, mate...

Wow, man. Christ. Yeah, I'm kinda sick of the whole "stoicism" thing as a guy. Like yeah, guys should be able to set aside their emotions in favor of logic if they need to, but damn it, we deserve safe spaces, too. Our significant others are supposed to be that for us.

that sucks man as a guy i do think that the attitude of bottling up our difficult feelings to avoid bothering other people is not the healthiest and it's something we need to unlearn, and shows like FMAB with this kind of lessons do not help but of course when someone has had an experience like yours, i can't blame you at all, that really sucks, i hope you heal from that someday

I'm sorry bud. two of my closest friends of 20+years killed themselves and I had that used against me as well.

There are a few questions that I've never figured out throughout any of the continuities, but overall FMA was definitely a very thoroughly detailed and cohesive work.

If I remembered correctly, they dragged Al's doubt in the 2008 version. Because show runners had so little manga materials to work with, so they prolonged every plot point they could find. Even Tucker was alive, and grew donkey ears (I'm not kidding)...that's why I can never take the 2008 FMA seriously.

Yeah, it's my least favorite plot point but it resolves quickly and the resolution brings with it a wise message so I'm willing to forgive that the instigation feels ham fisted.

@@blueor2003*

And Izumi herself