ED IS IN TROUBLE! Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 41 REACTION! | "The Abyss"

[@CarlieAndAnge]

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[@eizy1010]

hope you guys reacts to korean drama ``the sound of your heart``

[@cloud0598]

its irrelevant if ed had the stone coz he would have never used it, he refuses to used other souls for his own gain

[@UncensoredScion]

I said it back at the start but DO A COVER FOR THE ED DO A COVER FOR THE ED!

[@rlalphayt788]

Dragon ball super heroes reaction next😊

[@rlalphayt788]

DBSH reaction

[@LisanAlGareeb]

This show is so well written and consistent it always blows my mind. This anime used to be number one on my personal rankings for a reason after all 😤

[@LuisSierra42]

It only gets better from here

[@criomede9536]

If FMAB used to be your first, what is your first now?

[@LisanAlGareeb]

@@criomede9536 Vinland Saga. It has had a huge impact on my life so I rank it no.1

[@happyfairyjerry]

​@@criomede9536I'm curious too, a show competing with this one must be decent

[@mjbull5156]

The gold hair and gold eyes are a Xerxian ethnic trait. Everybody in the Xerxes flashback in the previous episode had that look.

[@joshrodriguez6740]

The way I see it is that Ed would have known the stone was down there with him and could have asked the chimeras to find it but he didn't simply due to the fact that Ed is against using the philosopher's stone

[@mjbull5156]

He may not have thought there was enough time to search the place for the stone. Also, being impaled, he was also in shock.

[@flixization]

Yes my thoughts exactly. The boys have already stated outright a few times they wouldn't use a philosopher's stone since it's made from people's souls.

[@drewpocernich2540]

He’s already used a stone to save his own life at this point in the series (envy so I guess it’s a bit different).

[@mauricioaguilarpineda8913]

true

[@acmh7538]

@@drewpocernich2540 My take on this is, when he used one to save his (and Ling's) lives, he was against making a Stone but not yet against using one already made (just before that he was arguing with Mustang and Ling about how to use Glutton's Stone). But that's because he didn't know yet that the souls trapped in the Stone were potentially still sentient. When he used part of Envy's Stone to get back to their reality, that's when he learnt that the souls were maybe still there, from that point on he refused to use one for his own gain.

[@thelifeofkenji4900]

It's so funny how petty Ange has become whenever Selim is brought up, Carlie is just chill when he's in the conversation, but Ange has venom in his tone.

[@CarlieAndAnge]

I gave Selim my trust

[@thelifeofkenji4900]

@@CarlieAndAnge I'm gonna have to nominate Selim as the MVP of the series (are you not doing MVP for FMA?) for pissing you to this degree whilst simultaneously flattering Carlie's ego, she's now a genius and won't let you forget it I'm sure.

[@AvereeChaloupka]

I really like that you guys mentioned ed's resourcefulness and how he doesn't sway from his ideals. It's one of the things I love most about Ed as a protagonist. He could be solving so many of his problems easier if he was willing to kill people, and even as a dog of the military there's many who would say he'd be justified in those actions too. But Ed consistently doesn't, and it causes him a lot of problems through consequences of not taking life - but he always finds ways to bounce back and take his punishment (and not whine about the punishment - he's aware)

[@soulstice94]

I like how they fully confirm that Hoenheim is the guy who brought alchemy to Xing AND also POINT OUT that Ed and Al (sort of Al) are essentially the last 2 Xerxians this episode.

[@senbujohns4489]

Yes they are connected like that. If Ed dies, Al's soul will be pulled back into his body without being able to return. Ed is short because some of his nutrients are sent to Al's body so it doesn't die and decay. Same for why Ed sleep more than normal people, he sleeps for both.

[@z1LeaF]

I think it's also that it is only Ed's blood seal that keeps Al tethered to the armor, so if Ed dies, Al's souls disconnects.

[@springdeerling7866]

And after this Ed gets a huge growth spurt cause that connection seemed to weaken when he came close to death

[@andyl2599]

About the stone laying next to Ed part, there a few ways to look at it. 1. Ed just wont use the stone unless he has zero choice, like going through truth to come back out real world. 2. He was pretty much in a "do now or die" moment, losing blood and temp, searching for a stone that might in reach pretty much not an option. If he faint and thats it, so pretty much he just go all in and do the thing that he has confident in.

[@speedy01247]

yeah the stone easily could have been under a ton of rubble, the odds of it being out in the open was very low.

[@DJDarkStrokes]

Ed is against the use of the stones because you have to sacrifice people to make them. So even if he did see the stone he wouldn't have used it.

[@Toasterfinal5]

Well done Angelo, One of my favorite openings of this anime. Your cover was superb. 😊

[@CarlieAndAnge]

❤️

[@button689]

Edward's use his blood to connect Al's soul with armor, Ed's portal makes part of Al back from truth, if he dead his portal won't work anymore

[@mrsjones7907]

Ed is probably my favorite anime protagonist. He is smart, brave, strong, talented, determined, moody yet kind -among so many other things. But, most of all, he is just a genuinely good person. His fierce love for his brother and his genuine respect for life are truly admirable. I love how he has his ideals and boundaries that he absolutely refuses to cross, even at great cost to himself. He recognizes that cost as reality and accepts it willingly. But, even though he tries to save lives when he can, he doesn’t come across as overbearingly preachy either. What I mean by that - even if someone acts in a way that he wouldn’t and does kill if deemed necessary (General Armstrong for instance), Ed doesn’t consider them a bad person for it. I just think he’s such a cool example of a person with a high moral compass who doesn’t judge others for holding to a different standard as his own.

[@Ower8x]

That scene with Ed healing himself still hits so hard even after I saw it so many times

[@MultiTrickster121]

You might have missed it but May mentioned that a man with golden hair and eyes brought alkehistry to Xing, she was referring to Hohenheim

[@WaywardVet]

Come here for that opening song. Stay for the reaction. Pour your drinks and pull up a chair, folk!

[@gingybun]

Props to ange for noticing the Xerxians (?) physical characteristics!

[@gingybun]

AND the point that Father scoffed at Hohenheim for wanting a family and went ahead to create his own “family” too.

[@fajarkurniawan9434]

beyond this episode we're going through the whole Chimera MVP arc even Yoki has his MVP moment

[@nekochiyu5060]

I got a feeling that even if Ed found the stone, he wouldn't use it to heal himself. He still sees the souls as people, to use their energy would be killing them in a way. There was sadly, no other option when he was stuck in Gluttony's stomach

[@SnowyWolborg]

To be fair, at this point, he has already done it, so if it's a life or death situation, he has no moral reason to object to doing it again. Envy wasn't wrong when he said that Ed doesn't use logic to determine what a person is. The soul energy Ed used to free himself, Ling and Envy from the false Truth dimension _were_ just energy at that point with no hope of return. Al, on the other hand, actually still has sentience and a chance of returning to his human body, so despite the situations being similar, they weren't exactly the same.

[@shadowfire_08]

it’s cool that they used the periodic table of ‘AU’ for gold in their term ‘Aurelian’ 🤓 and I think this might be the first ending that we need an Ange cover for 🤘🏻🔥🍻

[@no-bark4112]

comment is old, but i figured i'd let you know the AU symbol for gold comes from the latin language. aurum: something made from gold. aurarius: something which is golden. aureli: a boys name, which simply means "gold". also, the suffix -an or -ian also comes from latin, and refers to a person from a certain place or sometimes a certain practice or job. so the name "Aurelian" would translate to something like "a person from the land of gold", or something very similar to that.

[@GavinFox2028]

Perfect timing 😊 been waiting for FMAB reactions 👏👏

[@BBTRaziel]

the thing about Pride being the first Homunculus will be explained in the show soon. So no need for us to tell you

[@Yewtewba]

If you like Heinkel (the lion guy) now, you're gonna love him later.

[@PentragonCosplay]

For me this was an very impactful episode (or better mangascene since this is what I knew first). Ed getting stabbed was so unnerving and the way he handles this situation left me speechless. Till today a scene that pulls me right in.

[@jucavelu]

You guys were talking about how Ed will find about any solution to not have to kill somebody, it triggered Thorfinn from Vinland Saga for me: "Have you really put in the effort to avoid all this killing? Once they drew their swords, you just drew yours right back at them."

[@umarsubhan7035]

FMAB has the best openings of all time

[@pachecronico]

Hiromu Arakawa is a legend. I'm not sure if there's an explanation for this in Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, but in the first version, there was a reason for Ed being so small, and he also ate a lot compared to someone of his stature. He, in a way, was providing sustenance for Alphonse, who couldn't eat. It was an unconscious way of keeping his body alive. However, I'm not entirely certain if this is from the first version of the anime, as their endings differ significantly.

[@richaelvargas8474]

I love that ending song too. It's by Scandals by the way, they also made some of the ending and opening songs of some other anime like Bleach. I followed them a while back

[@animetico23]

The ending song is from my favorite band! Its name is SCANDAL

[@BlackStarSymphony]

You already have the explanation of how the homunculus are created 😅 You know that father has have of the souls of Xerxes in him. You know how he recreated Greed. That's how they are made. Basically from the philosopher's stone blood within father. At least, that's how I always interpreted.

[@DatDirtyDog]

They meant how the dwarf in the flask was created as at that point no philosophers stone existed to create him

[@chaosspear0195]

The thing is it doesn’t matter if the stone was there or not Ed wouldn’t not choose to use it regardless he sure not to use them the only time he had to is because there was 0 way out without the use of it but he would never want to even if it cost him some of his life he would have rejected using the stone and used his own life force.

[@zibus8456]

Hypocrite is the perfect word to describe Father

[@dikshantkaliya832]

Never stop saying "Fullmetal Alchemist"

[@dresca2501]

True words from my favourite psychopathic realist. A price for Mercy. Letting your enemy live is just giving them another chance to kill you. This was Eds price for being merciful.

[@3pleFly]

I havent noticed it before, but this time around going in and out of the portal ed was more poised so he could lead himself through, i think its this poise that let him learn how to use himself as a philosopher stone after he used live souls from envy.

[@speedy01247]

Even if Ed found the stone he wouldn't use it here, as he said, this was the cost of him showing mercy and he had to pay the price for it, he's not the person to allow others to pay the price of his actions.

[@ZechsGaming]

Goated episode ed’s voice actor was great in this episode

[@novAviator01]

Thank you for the video

[@UncensoredScion]

I wonder if you're going to cringe at the pipe scene as that's a DAMN moment on how amazing and hard Ed is.

[@xel1673]

Homunculus/Father and how he got into the flask is never truly explained. In that, all the series gives you is that the master that owned #23/Hohenheim used his blood to transmute Homunculus/Father into the flask. It's never specified how or for what purpose Homunculus was transmuted, or if his existence was a complete mistake on the part of Hohenheim's master or intentional. HOWEVER, if you pay attention throughout the series you get continuous hints (big and small) as to where Homunculus/Father originated from.

[@Shortsyoutube1245]

The OG chimera's are here

[@Austin.Kilgore]

7:10 Well to be fair they had to really take their time lining up the shot because Ed was there and kinda in the way, they wouldn’t wanna accidentally shoot him instead. Lol

[@CaptainSpycrab]

I don't think it's ever explicitly stated onscreen, so it should be spoiler-free for me to say that Father was originally created by combining a sample of Hohenheim's blood with a fragment of Truth.

[@icaine16]

People forget this isn't season one Ed. He is completely against using the stones and would've willingly died instead.

[@ojousama0760]

and yes, Armstrong didn't kill anyone in the Ishbal war, that's why the officers replaced him and dismissed him. His sister on the other hand, Olivia, was mad at her brother because he's a coward who flee the war. That's why she treats him poorly.

[@Neil-ww3qh]

This ep was fire 🔥🔥. Hey guy btw when dbs Broly gonna be posted ??

[@CarlieAndAnge]

Later this week!

[@Neil-ww3qh]

@@CarlieAndAnge shheeehhh lets goo

[@F4Jd]

Oh Hell yeah lol That finale was so great I’ve been excited for Broly

[@mrphenomenal121]

I've a question ange have you guys seen Avatar the last Airbender Seeing how you guys enjoyed aot and fmab im sure you'll like that show a lot

[@Kickazzgoalie]

You do realize that he would never use the stone, even if he had it in the first place.

[@deathknell609]

Ed would most likely not have used the stone, anyway.

[@slippymclach1233]

I think even if Ed had the stone that had fallen down there, he still would have refused to use it cause he won't even use it to get their bodies back. Like Al said last episode, he'd never use one.

[@wonderstuck-gg]

My favorite episode hell yeah!!

[@catboy1205]

This new ending song is one of my favorites. Ange should do a cover!

[@turbulentmind2044]

whoa. . .no way. . .its almost like there is a cover before every episode

[@catboy1205]

@@turbulentmind2044 “E N D I N G”

[@turbulentmind2044]

@@catboy1205 my bad

[@Serenskiller]

This is kinda out of blue, but you should definitely react to FMA 2003 OST called Bratja (brothers) in both Russian (the original language of the song) and English. It is an iconic song.

[@ojousama0760]

you like the ending song? i do too! i thought you were going to cover it instead of the opening but I guess its reasonable because you always do Openings. but i still wish you'll do the ending intro. ❤🙏

[@OmnibuslPrime]

I know you'll likely speak about this after finished the show, but where do you place FMA:B so far compared to some of the other anime you've watched?

[@xel1673]

Even if Ed or the chimeras had found the stone prior to Ed saving his own life, Ed would never have used it. For the same reason why Ed & Al refuse to use a stone to fix their bodies. They won't use the life of another to erase their reckless choices, whether offering mercy or attempting human transmutation. It's likely the same reason Hohenheim didn't fully heal Izumi last episode, despite having the capacity to do so. With the immense power of his stone, Hohenheim could have given back everything Truth took from her. But he chose not to and only rearranged her insides to improve her health because, as he said, she has a greater purpose to serve. His reasoning for it is likely similar to Ed & Al's. Izumi's personal choices are what led her to getting her insides taken away, thus rendering her incapable of ever having children again and leaving her in a sickly state. Hohenheim seemingly would not use the souls within him to wipe away what is ultimately Izumi's sin. Perhaps he also considered how Izumi would feel if had used the souls of others to fix her mistake. I don't think Izumi would have approved either and likely would have been upset by it. Now that you have his past, you can start to see more of Hohenheim's character and his similarities to his own boys. Stuff like this is showing us a side of his mentality, personal code of ethics, and what he is or isn't willing to use the souls within him for.

[@TheLightbane]

In regards to the stone I am not sure if he would want to use it or not. Whilst he used a stone to escape gluttony’s stomach he was very unhappy to do so. To Ed and Al right now using a stone is the equivalent to using slave labour or sacrificing a life. It what I love I love most about them, they appreciate the costs of human life.

[@Austin.Kilgore]

Yeah I like the new ending song, my favorite ending song though is ending 2.

[@ChrisMorray]

You probably got a hundred requests already but will you react to the bloopers after the show?

[@davidpopoola3794]

wow

[@tejasjadhav578]

Please watch anything related to one piece it's peak right now 🤩

[@rockyestolano9275]

When are the Mob Psycho 100 reactions?

[@CarlieAndAnge]

Roughly middle of this week 🙂

[@sefayldz7216]

the beginning reaction plz

[@sefayldz7216]

B the beginning reaction plz

[@bigtexstanks1880]

👍👍👊

[@Spartan_Rage7]

yall didnt like him because yall are quick to judge anyone and anything lol. pretty sure that was just yall. dont lump us with you

[@supratikghosh]

Watch One piece.