10/10 EPISODE!! 😭 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 63 REACTION!

[@CarlieAndAnge]

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[@LuisSierra42]

Code Geass pls

[@Brian-fj5gz]

​@@LuisSierra42second that. Please do code Geass. You'll need a notebook tho

[@SlavaI1ov]

How about everyday life, but not really Natsume's Book of Friends

[@lelouchviBritannia-dp4vs]

Code geass plzzzz

[@EddieDexterStewart]

No matter how many times I watch this...When Pinako says, "Silly old fool...At least you died with a smile, my old friend," and the music starts, I weep like a baby. Every. Single. Time.

[@FreddRob99]

He lost his brother to alchemy so he had to give his alchemy to get his brother back, a poetical equal exchange

[@LuisSierra42]

Yeah, but also Ed's arc is the opposite of Father. Father wanted all knowledge just like Ed did at the beginning of the story but at the end that was Father's downfall and letting go of it was Ed's salvation

[@tonberrygaming3267]

can izumi do the same and get her organs back? how come mustang do the same to heal his eyes (before marcoh came)?

[@sonnatine]

@@tonberrygaming3267 the only one able to do such an exchange was ed since his and al's portals were connected... everyone else only has one portal therefore there's only one way in and out

[@wadiyarabhijeet]

I think the ignorance of getting back deceased mother back through alchemy cost both boys alot . In the end Al learned to trust his brother with life (somewhere within him he felt as if his human body existence was a lie , or they couldn't bring his body back ) and for Ed he learns that alchemy was not able to fix all life disasters/situations the one important reason he started learning alchemy . In the end both boys realise this truth and did take appropriate choice to get Al's body back.

[@refurbishedtechpriest9076]

Never really thought of it that way before, but that's rather spot-on.

[@ZechsGaming]

I love how you noticed Father's door being symbolic to him not learning anything throughout his lifetime.

[@hotlinechernobyl5157]

One of the very first things Greed says in the series, the way he introduced himself to Al "My name's Greed, and i want to be your friend"

[@darthcarnage12]

Lust dies satisfied. Gluttony gets eaten. Envy commits suicide at the reveal that he's jealous. Sloth dies after giving his all in a long, hard fight. Wrath dies at peace. Pride lives on in a way, but with his own pride cast aside and being dependent on others. Greed sacrifices himself for others, feeling he has everything he could ever want.

[@JaeHann4266]

❤

[@SpyrosKoronis]

Also, Pride's downfall involves him being humbled enough to try inhabiting an "inferior" human to survive.

[@atmaillumina]

@@Mr-vengeance I don't agree. Some of them didn't make any sense.

[@MysteriMustacheToast]

Seeing Truth happily concede to Ed as they admit to their defeat is one of my favorite moments of the show. It made it feel like they’d been secretly rooting for him the whole time. The last scene with Truth and father can be summed up pretty well with this quote by A. Giloni: "Without factual truth you cannot have moral clarity. Without moral clarity you will never have factual truth.” Notice how Truth didn’t respond when father asked “what’s wrong with craving knowledge?”. And that’s because there *isn’t* anything wrong with wanting to pursue truth and perfection. It’s a natural desire most living things have. However it’s the way you pursue your truth that determines your character and what you actually learn/obtain in the end. Father tried to take the shortcut because of his hubris and was humbled by the truth; dragged back into the portal just as ignorant as he was the first day he came to existence. Ironically he achieves his wish at the price of the one thing he valued the most. The dwarf’s story also reminds me of Icarus and his wings of wax.

[@Kashi_Mochibean]

Oh wow. That's amazing. Somehow this never fully registered to me until reading your comment. Thank you. The dwarf said "I think I could be happy if I could just leave this flask". And the portal of truth is the fount of all knowledge, and where he was dragged back to at the end. So he actually achieved what he was after at the cost of what really mattered. Dang. Of course the dwarf acted wrongly to get out of the flask to begin with, so it wouldn't necessarily be right for me to say things would be fine if he were just satisfied by that. But it does make me wonder if maybe there was possibly a more moral method that could be used for such a creature to find freedom.

[@notanotaku1101]

That joy is so uplifting. You can genuinely believe this is God, or the setting equivalent, truly overjoyed that one of the little idiots that made it here FINALLY learned the lesson.

[@MysteriMustacheToast]

@@Kashi_Mochibean thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed reading it :) In response to your thoughts, I think the path he should have taken was exactly as Truth suggested. Instead of casting out all of the deadly sins and simply trying to avoid them, he should’ve learned to do what all humans do; set aside his hubris and humble himself enough to be willing to put himself through all of the major and minor inconveniences that naturally come with having each of the 7 deadly sins. The right thing to do would have been trying to further himself through that instead of obsessing over this grand delusion of surpassing what he perceives to be God, through deceit and acts of violence. He was basically a textbook narcissist. Indulged his id like a selfish ass while showing zilch signs of even remotely having a functioning superego. It’s just a little sad though because even if it was the cause of all his mistakes, his original dream was blameless and pretty understandable. Born from a Hohenheim when he was still a slave, naturally what he wanted the most was freedom. It’s unfortunate that he became incredibly misguided and came to believe that omniscience/omnipotence would somehow give it to him.

[@benjamintherogue2421]

"your truth" There is no personal truth. There is only The Truth.

[@MysteriMustacheToast]

@@benjamintherogue2421 yes, in the show as a character, there is only one ‘Truth’. But in real life not really and that’s very visually well represented in fmab as well. Why do you think ‘Truth’ always takes on the shape of the silhouette of whoever is facing it? Truth is different for everyone and that’s pretty cut and dry lol not even a takeaway lesson of the show just real life logic. The existence of objective truths is still very much debated in the field of philosophy today.

[@Misterasianweeman]

i love the detail that the fathers door of truth is blank because he never learnt anything and always took from or sacrificed others. in contrast you can see things etched onto ed and al's doors of truth

[@loftypenalty91]

Yeah Ed's door was different each time he saw the truth because he was constantly learning new things throughout the series but Father's door didn't change because despite all the people he sacrificed he didn't learn anything.

[@kikikim4589]

Can we all agree that all fmab episodes are amazing and the last 5 episodes are absolute masterpiece, I cried Soo much for his death

[@xcmvp2007]

The last 64 episodes are a masterpiece.

[@LuisSierra42]

AoT is a sequel to FMA

[@Humstuck]

not all of them are amazing. all of them are good but the middle is nowhere near as good at the last 10ish.

[@dudu-fo7hz]

Also, cant ignore that, good message aside, Ed and Al are dumb as fuck😂 They know what losing this war means. And yet they still refuse to use the philosopher stone. People already died to make it, and there is no way to bring them back, and more can come if the bad guys win. And yet they refuse the biggest advantage they have. Even worst when you think that in a way the souls are still there and suffering, so you let them go to waste instead of using it to avoid more people to suffer that fate. I love the anime with all my heart, easily one of my favorites, but cant help but see this in a logical way.😂

[@angramainyu9220]

@@dudu-fo7hzI mean they're still kids in the end lol

[@inquisitive6786]

This whole thing is what the ice alchemist in the first episodes was trying to prevent. He was a good guy the whole time

[@LNGD_46]

Bro used his own blood for swords, Legend!

[@Metal-Spark]

I absolutely love Hoenheim's character, I always shed a tear or two at his final speech. The idea that he spent so long being unwillingly immortal, searching for death, living a hollow, meaningless life - and it was Trisha and his sons that gave his life any sense of purpose, that made it a life worth living. It's such a simple but beautiful message that really hits home because of just how long Hoenheim has lived for. I think that's a huge running theme in this show, life is about the bonds we make with each other. You can hoard money, power, knowledge, live unnaturally long, but it's all empty without other people.

[@doubleasworkshop1692]

If you would like a more in depth explanation on the Alex and Hohenheim conversation. It started with Hohenheim relating with Father, how none of them got to fulfill their dreams. Then as to counteract that notion, Alex comes in exclaiming how grateful he is that Hohenheim decided to start a family with Trisha and had two sons. Because if it wasn't for Ed and Al a huge bunch of these events would have gone unnoticed. Ed and Al were the primary catalyst for the entire main cast looking into the corrupt system they were in. That is when Hohenheim realized that even if he had to make the hard choice and leave his family(for obvious good reasons), Trisha helped him fulfill his dreams. His family is great, his family is thriving, his family is doing wonderful things, he had sons that would go on to great things with or without Alchemy. Hohenheim in the end, achieved his dreams thanks to Trisha. Unlike Father. This entire story is so well written

[@julietaespinoza767]

We need a compilation of Ange's "Fullmetal Alchemist" AND a compilation of all the theories he got wrong 🤣🤣🤣

[@Kashi_Mochibean]

Yes. That would be great. Though to be fair to him, it should include a counter of all his "half points" like here where Hohenheim nearly did sacrifice himself for Al's body.

[@user-fi6yk4si3y]

Upperhook killed me 💀 Carlie is so funny 😂

[@wandrr27]

You mean upperhand 😂😂😂

[@user-fi6yk4si3y]

@@wandrr27 she said both upper hand and upper hook 😂

[@izukukageyama7552]

Ange: "I'm an embarrassment" Carlie: "...yeah" 😆

[@lightningg252]

I really like the visual tie back to when Ed first opened the portal. When he was young and arrogant, he smirked, placed his hands on the portal and pleaded with Truth to show him again. But here they show the same shot of him placing his hands on the portal with a much more enlightened state of mind as he gives it up.

[@lewstherintelamon244]

As always, one of the greatest joys of watching someone experience FMA for the first time is seeing how their feelings towards Hohenheim change over time. What many people don't know however, is that this isn't where his story ends. In the manga there's a scene of him reuniting with Trisha in the afterlife. It's a shame that it was never adapted to the anime, but I understand that with only one episode left they wanted to focus on tying up loose ends more than anything else.

[@Bdavis2475]

Wow I need to go read that

[@notanotaku1101]

Greed sighing and saying "That's enough" always chokes me up. Hes literally the incarnation of wanting everything, and he died satisfied about what he had in the end. Truly hammers home the theme of love and friendship this whole show revolves around.

[@lowkeystudios5026]

He's probably the best written anime character I've ever seen. He's just so *human* , so real, just a bit more loud about his greed than we are, but almost everyone can relate to greed. At least I could, so his death was soul crushing

[@dannykpopgold788]

Edward is handing out those upperhands and upperhooks 😂

[@CarlieAndAnge]

😂

[@doubleasworkshop1692]

He definitely isn't falling short of his punches

[@loka7783]

@@doubleasworkshop1692 Mebbe also you could say Ed was punching above his hei..I mean weight class?

[@zibus8456]

No shame, Ange! You followed to show to the clear conclusion it wanted you to. I think most of us had the same thought at some point. The show is just written well enough to not give you what you expect (Ho's sacrifice) or what you dread (Ed's sacrifice) but something better (Ed's solution).

[@TheSilverHermitMage]

Ive seen this entire show like 10 times but im still sobbing 😭😭😭😭

[@TheMajinHermit]

Fun fact about what you said in regards to father never learning anything. The writing on the door in the portal or truth represents everything a person has learned, Fathers door is blank because he never learned anything.

[@refurbishedtechpriest9076]

I swear, no matter how many times I watch this episode... Greed's sacrifice, Ed's final transmutation, and Von Hohenheim visiting Trisha's grave always hits me so hard in the feels. This series is truly a work of art.

[@loka7783]

I feel it is important to mention that Greed sacrificed himself to save Ling and BEFORE he saw everyone's reaction. That is the definition of selflessness. He was rewarded afterward by getting to see he had friends (that he wasn't paying or in his gang) before he died.

[@edl8597]

fun fact, in the original japanese line, instead of saying goodbye my friends, he said goodbye my friends that were bonded by soul, which referred to the end of episode 44, where Ling told him that friends cannot be erased cuz they are bonded by soul.

[@JaimeAGB-pt4xl]

The series may follow the brothers.... but Hohemheim was the actual hero of the story ... tragic past, self-sacrificed his time with his wife and sons to save hem and stop the homunculus, set up the counter offensive over time, and protected them during the final fight.... He was Amazing

[@mani3001]

I am so happy you watched FMAB, but I am sad we're at the end. This series will never fail to make me emotional. Incredible reaction!

[@SirForwyn]

If you guys have noticed, Father's portal was completely empty, unlike Ed's or Al's.

[@BatzMayonnaise]

I have watched this anime prob between 10-15 times, and this, among many other episodes makes me cry every time i watch it. The love i have for this anime cannot be measured.

[@DeathlyXenosSlayer]

I really like that the last shot of the episode is their old home. Hohenheim is finally back home to his beloved. 😥

[@ChrisMorray]

This is how you do an ending: The threat was dealt with halfway through the episode already. The show can end here and be fine. But that wasn't the plan: The writer wanted to tell a complete story. So we got all this already, and then we get a full episode tying up loose ends and giving glimpses at the future for the main cast. That's how you end an anime: You take your victory lap.

[@hunacean]

Something I love about Father's confrontation with truth, is that the Truth calls the other homonculi the seven desires instead of deadly sins. It's a subtle yet profund insight into just how much the truth symphatises with humanity.

[@avantigb]

I think ep 63 of this series is one of the best episodes of anime ever. Just peak writing and understanding of the characters

[@CarlieAndAnge]

Its gotta be our favourite of the series for sure

[@issacgs17]

I really like your reaction. I've watched a lot of these reactions and no one ever gets how selfish Hoeinheim's request is. Asking a child to sacrifice their parent (which completely goes against the child's wishes of not making other people pay for their mistakes) just to feel better about his choice to not be in their life (which was totally necessary not faulting him for that) is incredibly selfish. He realizes that while he is talking to him and backs down. Fantastic writing and a truly amazing and tragic character from start to finish. Thanks for the reaction.

[@UncensoredScion]

oh god the emotions kicking in without even seeing the scenes,

[@blueshell4859]

I'm convinced the opening song they use for the ending of this episode is Hohenheim's theme. If you look up the lyrics it's actually a very sad song about someone who has lost a loved one, and is constantly asking "How long will this rain last?"

[@xcmvp2007]

10/10 series

[@brycet93]

Ed’s Door: Sephirothic Tree of Life, representing how he had studied how to transmute human life and souls, via both transmuting his mother and brother. Al’s Door: stylized take on George Ripley’s text called “The Marrow or Alchemy”, which conveys that Al was more focused on the transmuting of the body for their mother when they performed the transmutation. It’s why his whole body was taken, a body for a body, versus Edward losing a limb for each time he transmuted a soul, first into the body Al made and then into the armor. Mustang’s Door: a design of the flame alchemy that was tattooed on Hawkeye’s back. Father’s Door: blank, because to our knowledge, he had never opened the portal or door of truth, never sought to learn anything of alchemy, just blindly trying to get power and control. He never really was after knowledge, he was after energy and power to use for himself. Like a small endless black void/hole.

[@brycet93]

This has been such a journey. I’ve loved every second of it. Thank you again for how much effort and passion you put into these reactions and that you appreciate the original work, respect the work, and really convey the feelings and passions that all of us fans have had for years.

[@KenjTheSnek]

I love the little detail that when Homunculus asks “What’s wrong with seeking knowledge, what’s wrong with seeking perfection?!”, truth says nothing. Not only in a moment of silence for the lack of self-awareness and reflection from Homunculus, but also as a perfect answer to the question. Nothing. There’s nothing wrong with seeking perfection or craving knowledge, but it is wrong to steal everything from others and claim it as your own, to believe that you can gain any experience or knowledge or happiness or perfection from that.

[@withxoutxlife]

This episode is an emotional powerhouse. Carlie had me tearing up right along with her.

[@EastCoastGamerX]

About the dwarf in the flask. I notice one thing. He stayed in the shadows, stayed alone and to himself, yet wanted to gain the knowledge that only living a life as a human would gain him. He wanted all the results of the experience while just sitting in his throne. Also even though he separated his sins He was still greedy, he was still wrathful, still prideful, he just didn't understand anything did he.

[@KaidenPvP]

this has nothing to do with the episode but i find it so cute that carlie gets so comfortable that she grabs a mini blanket for the videos

[@thedevilorder]

Its probably cold out there.

[@DXDragon38]

Rest in peace Mr. Hohenheim! What a fantastic end to his long journey. On to the Finale!

[@LuisSierra42]

Hos before bros

[@dannietea]

At the end of the manga, there’s a scene of Trisha and Hohenheim reuniting and it fully made me sob.

[@Grandy_UiD]

Damn, all the times I've watched this, I never noticed the Homunculus' door was completely blank. That is so goddamn amazing.

[@clearykatie]

I really loved all your theories! It reminded me of how much this show surprised me when I first watched it.

[@LNGD_46]

Best anime ever, PERIOD!

[@dreamlantern8545]

Journey's nearly end ❤❤❤ Ed's conversation with truth always gives me goosebumps... hoenhime❤

[@LuisSierra42]

This is technically the finale. Next episode is mostly an epilogue

[@WaywardVet]

Ho. The Voice of a Nation Alchemist. Rest in Peace.

[@mrcx6142]

Heads up: At 6:41 You can see that the portal of the homunculus was entirely empty. He did not acquire any knowledge himself. He didn't build anything. Now compare it to Ed's portal.

[@bish0p247]

In a way, Father and Hoenheim's deaths mirrored how they lived, just like the homunculi. Father lived believing he was destined to be all-powerful and knew better than all, but "died" powerless and being shown that he was the most ignorant of all. Hoenheim lived with regret and hating the immortality that was forced upon him, but died with relief and wishing he could continue on (fully understanding and appreciating what he had in the end). Beautiful series from beginning to end!

[@peaceofmind.V]

I CAME BACK HERE! PEAK! THE OP REALLY WENT WELL WITH THE EPISODES SO MUCH!

[@nickfidler6908]

The show posits the question many times: What could equal a human soul? The answer is potential. The potential for a human to be more than a human. A price that, when paid, comes with the realization that a human can already be anything.

[@komarunaegi7460]

Oh! By any chance, are you guys going to watch the FMA OVAs? Iirc, there are four of them. There’s one on a side story with Ed and Al, one about Roy and Hughes, one all about Izumi (I bet Angie is going to love that one 😂), and one on Riza and Winry.

[@okami7dreco786]

"What did I do wrong?! What should I have done?!" "You simply must have seen it with your own eyes" As many others in the comments are pointing out, all the Sins died in ways counter to their name. On other reactions to this episode I've seen people point out that Truth's comment above may suggest that if Father had seen the world as his children did in their various ends, seen it with his own eyes, he may have grown as a person.

[@mjbull5156]

In episode 40, Hohenheim and Homunculus have a conversation where Homunculus disparages Hohenheim's desire to have a family, not understanding human need to have connections to other people. His flawed thinking had been foreshadowed from even we were told what he was.

[@juivcyj4006]

Fullmetal alchemist brotherhood is one of those rare occasions where im truly satisfied with the ending.. i hope you guys will be too :)

[@vhugom]

and this is how the most important character of FMA, the great Van Hohenheim, leaves us.

[@NessOnett8]

They really needed to make an entire episode as an afterword to tie up all the loose ends. It's so happy and so sad.

[@curtisd5864]

All of the immortals have fitting deaths. Wrath with a calm smile, Greed feeling satisfied, Gluttony being consumed, even Father screaming that he just wanted knowledge but he never wanted to *learn* (hence his door of truth being blank), etc. But of all of them Hoenheim is my favorite. Earlier, we see Trisha telling Hoenheim that he’s not a monster. He saw himself as something inhuman - but what could possibly be more human than reaching the end of a long life & realizing that there’s still more to see and do?

[@ilsrzz135]

was waiting for ange to find out what happens with his theory the whole time 😂 credit is still due tho because it wasn’t too far off

[@blueocean3024]

There are 2 finales in FMA, first one tears with love and second one tears with joy

[@4ndytrout46]

Ange: I'm an embarrassment. Carlie: Yeah.

[@giocommentary]

4:56 in the eng sub he says ''tamashi no tomoyo'' as in: farewell my friends of the soul..

[@HessianX]

I always felt in a way, that Van Hohenheim was the true main character. No matter how many times I watch this episode it leaves me an emotional wreck.

[@thaumaturgeslit7759]

Absolutely wonderful finale to the fight!

[@0Defensor0]

Now that the story is complete, I think you should watch all of the openings again, to see all the foreshadowing/spoilers they did, that you didn't understand back then!

[@tycarnine3855]

I like you guys and your energy. Nothings ever worth fighting about. Life is hard today.

[@GhxstGhost]

Oh god. What I would do to rewatch this for the first time.

[@ryanakers1372]

17:22 Ange, "I'm an embarrassment." Carlie, "Yeah." 😂😂😂So savage.😂😂😂 I'm sad there's only one episode left.

[@zcbsajsbxnsdjzcnaskxn8883]

ugh this show is so good

[@LuisSierra42]

Notice that Father dies as an ouruboros which is also the tatoo that identifies the homonculi

[@GavinFox2028]

This was a great moment 🥹 ❤ reaction guys

[@diskoebalo]

in a way, Hohenheim was the protagonist of this story

[@Surgenium]

03:26 for Ange getting bamboozled as hard as Ling.

[@darthroden]

What made the Dwarf/Father's fate so terrible was the fact he will never understand, or bring himself to understand, where he went wrong. He will live in that despair for all eternity. Edward, by contrast, did what the Dwarf could never have done. He was willing to sacrifice his ability to use alchemy because he realized the truth: that in the end all he was is a simple human being....but that wasn't bad at all. And Hoenheim after helping to setting right what his "brother" did with the help of his boys was finally able to rest in peace with his wife, something he truly deserved.

[@rich9320]

Now we see the fates of the homunculi. Lust with the unstoppable spear to pierce any mans heart killed by a man with fiery passion. Gluttony with the ability to eat anything to satiate his hunger eaten by kin. Sloth with thee speed to complete his tasks died trying to complete a task. Envy who could turn into anyone they wont be envious of others killed themselves in shame. Wrath given the eye to see even when blinded with rage killed by a man once consumed by rage when blinded by the sun. Greed who had the unbreakable shield to protect his friends died sacrificing himself to protect his friends from his father. Pride given his fathers form reduced to a mortal insignificant form. The poetry the lessons in this series is always top tier.

[@jeansnow1116]

This episode is really beautiful! We don't need many deaths to have a beautiful end! The next episode is a satisfying conclusion to everything

[@ShadeOnTheUtube]

If you think about it, Father's death was also an irony. I think that's what Ange was getting at too.

[@bengemations6099]

that is my favorite episode of the whole show

[@ImaBobbyMudda]

“Vinland Sogger” Australians put “R’s” in the weirdest places lol

[@chantararix]

Up to this day, I still believe that while Ed was the main protagonist, Hohenheim was the main character. The kin of Homunculus, the Father of the Elric Brothers.

[@Arjun-kz1ji]

this was much deeper then what u guys think

[@danielbardgett2700]

Carlie’s response of “yeah….” at 17:20 sent me off 😂

[@giuly666]

Father being trapped forever in all of the universe's knowledge is perfect, anyone who took too much shrooms can tell how horrible that is lmao there's just so much truth the mind can take

[@Chipster321]

Im noticing they keep thinking that Ed got his leg back too, but that’s not the case. Al could only get him back his arm, because that’s what Ed had sacrificed to bring his Soul to the armor. So if you reverse it, which is what Al did, you get the payment back, which was his arm. He lost his leg trying to bring back his mother. So Ed is still short a leg lol.

[@psy_99]

It's honestly impressive how consistent Ange is at fumbling FMA theories

[@kay-jay1581]

Honestly it’s so satisfying to see the Dwarf not getting a direct answer from the truth😂 The truth basically to him to know his place in the world, he would never reach perfection and never be a god.

[@LNGD_46]

Watched this anime when I was too young, thought it was a children's show. 😂😂 Little did I know.

[@nicegoodstylish]

Did you notice Homunculus' portal of truth? It's blank. It truly learned absolutely nothing.

[@maxdon2001]

Great reaction! This episode hits hard!

[@rodolforibeiro8566]

I love how all the homunculus died according to their sins. Lust died in agony, gullotony was devoured, envy died by his own hand in shame, wrath died peacefully, sloth died giving his absolute best and pride "died" when he admitted he had feelings for his human mother, and greed died by sacrificing himself for the good of others. Simply amazing

[@CrownofMischief]

For Pride I think its also he was defeated after trying to escape into someone he considered beneath himself,

[@rodolforibeiro8566]

@@CrownofMischief i never realized that, i agree!

[@PeetaL]

If you haven’t had an older brother punch you in the face out of love… this is it

[@iloveyt123]

"SHUT UP, YOU ROTTEN FATHER! You say something that dumb again.. Then I'll knock you out!" I can't stand seeing Edward Cry. 7:26

[@DonMontoya721]

17:10 wake up babe, new ange meme format just dropped

[@mjbull5156]

Ed's response to Truth that all he had ever been was a mere human is an echo of something he said in an early episode (to Rose, if memory serves?). Ed knew the answer for a long time.

[@Shax22132]

It's always interesting to see how people's opinions on Hoenheim change over the course of the series. Most people start out hating him, which is done deliberately on the part of the show. Then we slowly learn more and more about him, and we grow to like him more and more, to the point that most fans are crying over his death. It's another example of the great writing of this series.

[@ItIsMimmyLo]

The next and last episode remember do not miss to the “end” (the end of ed song)❤

[@Shoxbha]

12:22 yes i felt your heartbreak Ange

[@fajarkurniawan9434]

imagine explain to someone that the final fight of epic journey is to turn the final boss into a donut

[@ojousama0760]

never failed to make me cry every single time with hohenheim's death

[@jonahcraven8669]

And with that, we have reached the end of Father and the Homunculi. And as you pointed out, the pattern still holds; Greed, the embodiment of selfish desire, dies making a selfless sacrifice to protect others. Not his possessions, but his friends. And as he dies, knowing what he found, his desire is finally satisfied. It's beautiful, and just one of the many reasons I absolutely love this story. Other people have definitely brought this up, but one of my favorite details in this episode is Father's door. Everyone who's passed through the Portal of Truth has their own door, inscribed with different symbols depicting the breadth of their knowledge of alchemy, the world, and the Truth. And as Father is drawn back into the Truth, we see that his door is entirely blank. Despite his intelligence, alchemical ability, and raw power, in all his centuries of life, he has learned absolutely nothing. Father attempted to surpass humanity and achieve perfection by removing his flaws, but he's completely missed the point, the lesson that the Truth is trying to teach; that we aren't meant to be gods. Our flaws are what make us human, and they're what make life worth living.