Okay, as requested: an entry about the recently released OVA of Full Metal Alchemist called the Blind Alchemist. It’s going to be a short entry because it’s a pretty straightforward episode, but it’s interesting to mention it nonetheless.
So basically Ed and Al meet an alchemist who is supposed to have successfully performed a human transmutation. It turns out that he also failed to perform one, lost his eyes, and ever since his family has been deceiving him by using a fake girl from some orphanage. It’s an interesting story without a conclusion, though it doesn’t really need one. The family will most likely happily live together until either the alchemist dies, or something else of that magnitude.
What’s interesting about this story is that it comes from the time in which Ed and Al still believed that human transmutation really brought back the dead. Ever since we learned that it didn’t, but the interesting thing here is that the transmuted person was actually kept alive. My guess is that there is some poor soul caught in that body, unable to do anything. It’s her who I feel sorry for the most.
Rating: * (Good)
looks interesting! can you post a link so i can watch it?
you can find the torrent simply on tokyotosho.com
Interesting they made an OVA for this. I wonder if they’ll animate some of the other gaiden chapters of the manga.
Is this from FMA: Brotherhood? The animation looks too good/different to be an OVA of the first FMA Anime.
Yeah, it’s from Brotherhood.
I am not sure if there is a soul in that body. I thought human transmutations fail mainly because it is impossible to transmute a soul, and the body also will not come from the original person.
The ending was creepy. Unlike the brothers and their teacher, this family decided to keep the body instead of burying it.
I remember reading this from the actual manga itself. I think they did a decent job with the adaptation. Though maybe it’s just me but it didn’t feel as sad, but then again I rarely get sad over things I watch.
pgal, Al’s soul was put into their “mom”s body, which is something they mentioned a while back in Brotherhood. So I think human transmutation IS possible, it’s just not possible to decide who/what exactly you’re going to create
It’s not impossible to transmute a soul, proof of that is AL and the other souls in armor. “Flesh and soul are connected by the spirit.” is what Ed said in eps 26. My assumption is that since the little girl died and her body was still around, (not taken by the gate like AL or buried) the blind alchemist tried to get her soul back from the gate, put it in the original body and like most if not all do failed since her spirit, I guess, was to weak to connect the two again and grabbed a random soul instead.
Oh it so makes me want to watch it!
Since you can’t create a soul with alchemy, nor can you bring back a soul once the body is dead, I think that what the alchemist managed to do was create a body which ‘lived’ but didn’t have a soul or a mind. Seems better than the alternatives anyway.
This episode was so sad… I didn’t even realize it was gonna be that way so it really hit hard~ Great episode indeed. You can all watch it at Animefreak.com~
http://www.watchanimeon.com/fullmetal-alchemist-ova-the-blind-alchemist/
Where i watched it. Pretty interesting episode
it changed a lot from the manga, original series and brotherhood, for starters trying to ressurect their mom which was a fail in both body and soul most likely; Edward had to pay with his leg and AL’s soul, AL’s soul was attached to armor not his mom he also lost his memories of seeing the gate of truth (which allowed alchemists to not need a transmutation circle in all and considered them sacrifices in brotherhood) and edward lost his arm, in other adaptations AL gets his memory back and body by either edward using a philosophers stone to splice his soul and body back together (for the price of him going to the other world shamballa and AL’s memories of when he was armor that he later got back when they both went to shamballa together) or by finding an alchemist to help restore his memory.
So in the end it was possible to do human transmutation if you have a philosophers stone or use the right kind of transmutation circle and sacrifice another human/s or homunculus or even find the right skills to sew the fragments together that you paid.
It is possible to attach a soul in human trans. Al’s soul was attached to his moms body and Ed took it from the soul. If u watch brotherhood al explains that he was in their “mother”. also by âFlesh and soul are connected by the spirit.â He says this because Al’s soul will later on attempt to escape from the armor and return to its body.
It is possible to attach a soul in human trans. Al’s soul was attached to his moms body and Ed took it from the soul. If u watch brotherhood al explains that he was in their “mother”. also by âFlesh and soul are connected by the spirit.â He says this because Al’s soul will later on attempt to escape from the armor and return to its body.
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