The Day of the Beginning

Well, I decided it would be fun to blog Fullmetal Alchemist. Though, I promise that unlike this time, I’ll try and write up my review for the episode much sooner…Also, I think I should just add for the records that I plan on making my FMA posts short because many people seem to be blogging this as well, so I’ll concentrate more on my impression, while giving a short summary. Anywho, this episode basically brought us back to the origins of how Ed and Al turned out the way they did. There seemed to be a lot of people who were sad, others were impressed by how well others were able to do alchemy and there seemed to be lots of moments of limb disintegration. The point is, that I actually really liked this episode!

In the “original” series, I always loved the episodes about their past as young kids and even considered them some of my favouites, so when I started watching this episode and realized what is was going to be about, I couldn’t help but think that they would not be able to make this episode any better. Naturally, I was wrong, they brought in so many more interesting ideas and edited all the boring parts. Already introducing the gate and the whole thing revolving around the truth that allows him to now use alchemy without a circle. It’s pretty interesting and it gives its audience a lot of things to hope to be answered for the future episodes. Though, in general, I loved the whole gate scene, the creepy figure and the following through memories all looked magnificently done. Lots of the characters also brought out a lot of emotion for the better obviously and it really seems like we’ll see more development between all of them.

I also love the brotherly friendship between Ed and Al just as much if not more than the original series. Brothers in television series always just draw me in to how they can always make fun of each other, but in the end care for one another as well; I just find it so cute! Maybe it’s by coming from a family of only sisters… Anyway, the only thing I haven’t particularly enjoyed as much as I did before is Mustang. I’m not sure if I’m alone on this or anything, but I preferred his appearance in the original series, also we haven’t really seen him at his peak of hilariousness. Though, knowing minimal knowledge from the manga, I can at least say that his appearance does resemble that of the manga’s pages more. The next episode seems to have the first appearance of Rose, who seems to look quite different, but we can really only wait and see.