Fullmetal Alchemist final chapter
Fullmetal Alchemist is no more. The uncertainties are ended, the Gate has closed.
Ed retenters Eden by the back door. Could've done with more development, but the runup and idea were perfect.
(How do you reach the point where you give up on solving the world with knowledge, and try to feel it as a whole? Ed hasn't attained infinite conciousness yet by a long shot, but he's met a huge variety of people struggling in different ways with the trouble alchemy brought them and can't take away. That prospect might've contributed to his abandonment of alchemy. Or maybe Ed can only truly repay and help the people of the world if he tries to understand the world with his heart, a human part of the one purpose, rather than a ersatz god)
Winry gets a big suprise, an akward marriage proposal, a hug, and contentment with her man's persistant uselessness. What more could a feminist icon want?
Al is also perfect, and Mei is too, even if she cries too much.
Roy is still behind the 8-ball, working to become Fuhrer. Riza is still his subordinate (sob)
(I guess he's recieved a bitter reminder of his duty to repair his past mistakes, with work rather than sacrificing his life, before he changes the country according to his own vision. This guy needs another manga series to himself, where he bloody well kisses Riza (incoherant sobbing)
Grumman is Fuhrer. I was hoping that getting his soul torn out would finish the old coot off, but you can't have everything.
Pride is ugly, but alive. This wasn't a series where many people died.
God is still an enigma, that Ed has only set his feet on the path to understanding.
Overall, the chapter was a bumpy, uneven ride, but an ending that fit the journey.
Ed retenters Eden by the back door. Could've done with more development, but the runup and idea were perfect.
(How do you reach the point where you give up on solving the world with knowledge, and try to feel it as a whole? Ed hasn't attained infinite conciousness yet by a long shot, but he's met a huge variety of people struggling in different ways with the trouble alchemy brought them and can't take away. That prospect might've contributed to his abandonment of alchemy. Or maybe Ed can only truly repay and help the people of the world if he tries to understand the world with his heart, a human part of the one purpose, rather than a ersatz god)
Winry gets a big suprise, an akward marriage proposal, a hug, and contentment with her man's persistant uselessness. What more could a feminist icon want?
Al is also perfect, and Mei is too, even if she cries too much.
Roy is still behind the 8-ball, working to become Fuhrer. Riza is still his subordinate (sob)
(I guess he's recieved a bitter reminder of his duty to repair his past mistakes, with work rather than sacrificing his life, before he changes the country according to his own vision. This guy needs another manga series to himself, where he bloody well kisses Riza (incoherant sobbing)
Grumman is Fuhrer. I was hoping that getting his soul torn out would finish the old coot off, but you can't have everything.
Pride is ugly, but alive. This wasn't a series where many people died.
God is still an enigma, that Ed has only set his feet on the path to understanding.
Overall, the chapter was a bumpy, uneven ride, but an ending that fit the journey.