I know this is for the other INCREDIBLY SAD THING THAT HAPPENS, because Fullmetal Alchemist is a harsh mistress, but...

The little girl’s father was a State Alchemist (government funded) who became famous for creating a talking chimera (secretly made when he fused his wife with an animal; he told people she left as a cover).

It kinda is the Jurassic Bark of anime.

I didn’t watch Brotherhood (only the original and the manga), but this really is one of the standout scenes from the series regardless of version. And look, it’s starting to rain.

I’m pretty sure the question of whether one is an asshole depends on whether you return your shopping cart to where it goes, or just let it roll around the parking lot.

Just for the record, I’ve only ever seen one episode of Full Metal Alchemist, randomly on Toonami one night, not knowing anything about the series. It was this episode. I haven’t really watched much Full Metal Alchemist since.

The father was a state researcher whose efforts were in danger of losing funding. He fused his daughter into her dog, in order to secure his funding. This caused her to be in constant pain and severely damaged her speech and cognitive abilities. She didn’t fully understand what had happened to her, and still loved her…

Yeah he’s not entirely broken up by it. He wants to maintain his lifestyle - money, status, etc. so he is willing to even turn his daughter into an experiment.

A great moment in a great series... but I have to admit I’m getting a bit tired seeing it everywhere already. :P

Maes was everybody’s dad...

I think part of what makes this more powerful is that it isn’t in the past. So many anime characters have this dark depressing past that they have overcome its almost a trope. In this scene the innocence of the two young boys you just met is completely destroyed...yet again...after they realize what happened to the…

Armstrong crying seals it. When Armstrong cries you know it’s depressing.

Hughes was my favorite character throughout the whole show. Even thinking about that death now still makes me sad. But that funeral scene was simply killer; way for the director to rub salt in the wound. =(

Ah yes, reminds me of this pic that I saw a while ago:

THIS NEEDED A TRIGGER WARNING!

Hogwash! Brotherhood was perfection! I’ll admit this part with Nina was better in the original Manga, but that’s because it seemed like Brotherhood rushed through the earlier part of the story, probably because they were like ‘blah blah blah.. you know all this already. Let’s skip to where it’s different’.

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