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Jul 7, 2009 11:22 PM
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what secret of ishbal??????

amd i forgot what your not supposed to forget! (inside of watch thing)
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Jul 8, 2009 8:08 PM
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the date inside the watch is when they burned down their house in Risembool
Jul 16, 2009 12:53 PM
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sasuke78787 said:
amd i forgot what your not supposed to forget! (inside of watch thing)
rofl

secret of ishbal. that must be the grand archanium sign around the entire city to make the philosopher's stone.

oh shi- scar found ed out
May 20, 2011 9:13 AM
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Ed looks quite well in dark hair and golden eyes. I was sure, that the Mother would turn out to be Rose. Finally we get back to Liore, I waited for this moment so long!
May 26, 2011 3:46 PM
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so its back to where it started...
and wow, i wonder what happened to make her the holy mother


Jun 11, 2011 7:46 AM
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The Secret of Ishbal is that they didn't start the war, I think.

I really loved this episode. Finding out about how those soldiers became chimeras was scary, but it made this episode really good.
Sep 7, 2012 3:34 PM
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An okey episode but things are really changing in the military under that new dude, I do wonder what happens next!
Oct 7, 2012 1:10 AM
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things are heating up :D

who would have thought we're back in Liore once again :P

so Scar wants to sacrifice everyone here??

that's just repeating the same mistake he's brother did back then.

definitely Rose that became some sort of Mother.

man Marta can't control her emotions and suddenly goes for Kimbley.

wow Lust and Gluttony are here!!!!!!

funny how Roy only sent the brothers here to amend any riot and it actually made it worse than before.

im ready ^^
Aug 19, 2013 3:54 PM
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LOL at the way Martel looked at the bread Al was going to give to her xD she's so cute <3
Jan 30, 2014 11:23 PM

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well this was a pretty good episode things are really getting more and more interesting every episode but seriously it seemed like tucker was doing something bad again as always his retarded laugh makes me want to see someone kill him every time but he some how always menages to survive.
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May 25, 2014 6:14 AM

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kimbelyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
"Urushibara Ruka. The mannerisms and voice of a woman... No... More feminine than any woman. But he's a guy. Taller than Mayuri, but so very thin... But he's a guy. Looks great in a miko outfit... But he's a guy. It's already twilight And yet, it's so hot. The cicadas are crying. But... He's a guy."
Aug 4, 2014 5:05 AM

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Ed looked funny in that wig lol.

Scar was there of course! Rose is back yay, but now she's a mute ... well, didn't see that one coming or that she's like I dunno, whatever she's supposed to be to them now.
Sep 22, 2014 3:23 AM

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Dang, Ishbal's past is still so touching.
"Let Justice Be Done!"

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Fight again, fight again for justice!
Dec 28, 2014 2:53 AM
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There is so much going on now!!
Feb 12, 2015 10:31 AM

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Do they ever explain why these homunculi are always where they have to be?
Feb 16, 2015 4:12 AM

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THE HOLY MOTHER
THE BEAST OF ISHBAL
OU YE
SO MUCH GOING ON
HYPE HYPE HYPE HOT
FANS NEED MORE FANS
Jul 11, 2015 3:42 PM

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Chills when Scar held Ed back
Jul 12, 2015 9:24 PM

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Dang 0,0
I'm confused about what really happened though...So the war didn't start because Douglas(?) shot a kid, but really because...Someone gave orders to attack because they were told the Ishbalans were going to attack Central, which was a lie, and then all the soldiers who attacked Ishbal were taken into custody and experimented on in lab 5? So does that mean someone gave a false order to attack? But Mustang, Armstrong, and the others were there when they attacked Ishabl, so that doesn't make sense to me...Because if they were part of the group who attacked, and they weren't experimented on...I know I got a lot of that wrong, but I'm so confused. My head hurts. >_<

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So Rose is regarded as some "Mother" thing now. Interesting...
Lust and Gluttony are back in Liore!
Scar O,O
Uh-oh I wonder what Tucker's gonna do to Ed's pocketwatch...
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Aug 3, 2015 11:19 AM

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Apparently Ed's disguise kind of sucks, because pretty much everyone recognized him lol. :P

Rose... I liked her before, but this "holy mother" thing disappoints me. The whole town of Liore disappoints me. It always blows me away that the people there so easily fall into some kind of religious cult mentality... Learn your lesson already!

Tucker seems to be up to no good. I wonder what exactly he's doing to all the pocket watches?

★ 4/5
Nov 16, 2015 7:00 AM

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Some pieces of the puzzle find their interlocking, but then come the new mysteries and doubts increase, more and more interesting plot, great! Narration always full of charm and surprises, there really never get bored. Not bad designs and animations. The cliffhanger is really substantial, it makes me want to immediately see the next episode.
Nov 26, 2015 9:50 AM
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What's up with that awful disguise from Ed ? Anyway, nice episode with a very intense cliffhanger ending.
Feb 22, 2016 4:17 PM

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Lol everyone saw through that terrible disguise. Wtf are they doing to Ed's watch? He said something like "enhancing" but they certainly wouldn't HELP Ed.
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Mar 2, 2016 1:10 AM

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Dem cliffhangers were insane!
Aug 28, 2016 2:05 AM

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That was the most enthralling cliff hanger yet by a long shot, going to watch 40 now.
Feb 11, 2017 10:35 AM

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Damn, Scar is a psycho, going to kill the whole city for the philosopher's stone. It would be funny if it turns out the Homunculi were behind everything that has happened so far, manipulating everyone like puppets.
May 27, 2017 10:32 AM

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Edward's disguise isn't really working apparently.
Rose became the Holy Mother.

Nov 10, 2017 1:32 PM

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Ed and Al not knowing that Lior was in Ishbal was a bit forced, imo. So that's why they made Liorians black-skinned, makes sense I guess, considering they even changed the location of Ishbal for this purpose, but I don't know, feels weird.
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Apr 16, 2018 1:05 AM

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Whoa, Rose returns and it looks like she's got a story to tell!

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Feb 20, 2019 2:58 PM

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Looks like things are heating up. That's to be expected since there isn't a ton of episodes left... but enough that it'll make for an interesting ending. Looks like I might need to watch the movie before FMA:B, though?

Jun 21, 2019 1:19 PM

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Deepest episode of Fullmetal Alchemist yet.
Mar 22, 2020 10:10 PM

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There's at least 10 people I want to see getting killed in a brutal way in this anime.
Jun 30, 2020 4:36 PM

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Best episode in a while. Ed really looks like Wrath with the wig IMO o.o

Gator said:
Do they ever explain why these homunculi are always where they have to be?
No explanation yet. Maybe Douglas using the military intelligence network, maybe a homunculi with special abilities...who knows. But hopefully we get an explanation before the end.

BlackFox24 said:
But Mustang, Armstrong, and the others were there when they attacked Ishabl, so that doesn't make sense to me...Because if they were part of the group who attacked, and they weren't experimented on...
The initial attack was a covert mission by a small group of elite soldiers. All of those were then used for experiments in lab #5. Afte that attack, the riots started and the war broke out. State alchemists like Mustang and Armstrong were only used after years of fighting to quickly end the war (which they did).

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Lol everyone saw through that terrible disguise. Wtf are they doing to Ed's watch? He said something like "enhancing" but they certainly wouldn't HELP Ed.
It's gotta be a trap of some kind to keep the alchemists in line should they rebel against his plans for Lior.
Apr 17, 2021 3:38 AM
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What's that bitch Winry trying to do? She should've told them.
Jun 6, 2021 2:30 PM
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Kimblee is one cool and interesting character. I kinda forgot the role he played here since I'm so used to his brotherhood version



Oct 23, 2022 1:29 PM

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I doubt Tucker would recognise Ed's watch just from one look inside xD
Oct 31, 2022 10:12 PM
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oooooh things are really heating up here! i forgot a good chunk of the detail of what happened near the end of 03 so i'm interested in what i'll see. i find it really interesting how rose is more relevant in 03 than she is in brotherhood. i remember what happened to her atleast. poor girl..
marta is also really interesting here. the backstory about the secret soldier thing she was apart of and how they got turned into chimeras was really interesting and really sad.

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