Full Metal Alchemist: Anime Edition

I opened this thread for discussion of the Anime Edition of Full Metal Alchemist, including the anime movie.

I myself have a few questions, thank you for helping me out:

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1) What happened to Gluttony and Lyra?

2) Why is it that the evil commander is still alive + robotic part after the forging of the philosopher stone. I thought he was dead among all the other people.

3) Is Dante a good person or a bad one? She is the teacher of Izumi but then I saw she was the leader of the creatures from hell.

4) I didn't really understand why Edward's father couldn't come back to the alchemist's world where Edward still could.

5) Why does Envy hate Edward's father so much?

6) What's the meaning of the green dragon in the last chapter?

7) Why didn't Edward get his hand and leg back at the end?

8) Which one is true? Getting a thing requires something (Edward), or the getting something doesn't require anything (father).

9) Why did Scar kill Nina-dog?

10) So it is true that when one dies, he can never be revived, unless his soul is still there and unless you use the stone. This is how Alphonse revived Edward. So why could Edward revive his brother again? This means Alphonse was never dead???

11) Those hellish creatures, are they just the people from the other world?
I don't understand why Edward keeps saying they don't have souls, if they don't have souls, then what do they have? They certainly have bodies and even memories from people from the alchemist's world.

12) I don't understand a thing from the triangle: Wrath - Edward - Izumi

Tell me where I'm wrong:
Izumi had a dead baby, tried to revive it and received an ugly baby? Is that ugly baby = wrath? Izumi gave her intestins and received wrath. Then she gave wrath back to the other world and then Edward tried to revive his mother and the ugly baby who has legs and arms stole Edwards leg and arm.
I don't understand what happened to the ugly baby. That ugly baby had arms and legs, how could it then steal another leg and another arm from Edward?

13) At the end of the series, Edward's father says something about, when you perform alchemist's things, you have to use energy from the other world in return, what does that mean?

14) Is there anything in the manga that says where the skeleton of Gluttony and Envy is and how did they come to this world?

15) What's with this baby being the portal and all? I even didn't remember when that baby was born...

16) Why was Lust suddenly pinned to the wall by the evil leader, and how??? She didn't have her skeleton.

17) Why did the evil general know that there was a skull in that case? And who hid it? He couldn't possibly put it there himself because he wouldn't be able to move. And if he knew that skull was in there, why did he give it to that kid? Absurd.
BTW, who is that skull from? The general? This can't be because it's the evil general who killed the good one. The evil general already existed when the good general was still alive. So who summoned the evil general and who is this skull from? Ok, I'm really, really confused now.

18) Did you find the ending sad? I did. By the way this is the best anime I've ever seen. So, do the brothers get back after all in the manga?

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I have got to see the movie!!!

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Too bad I don't live in America but in Europe, I'll have to buy it when I go to Hong Kong.

How ya doing, buddy?

I'm pretty pleased with the ending, but I have the feeling that the movie didn't tell me much that I didn't know of. I feel a bit empty.

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My subtitle went crazy too.

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And I didn't understand:

1) the dragon = envy. Why suddenly?
2) what was Alphonse doing to Gluttony and Wrath?
3) Why did the portal open at the moment when dad died?
4) The beginning of the movie is just not understandable, what's that orb?
5) Those robots coming out of the ground, were they manned or unmanned? If they were manned, how come one of them was unmanned => Alphonse.
6) Being able to use alchemy in that world. How is this possible?
7) Izumi, is she dead already?
8) So you say: to cross to the other world, both portals have to be open. Who opened the portal then when the father and Edward crossed over? Because only Edward and father can open the portal in the other world. There couldn't be anyone in the other world opening the door for father to cross over...
And in the anime, Edward suddenly came back to the alchemist's world, without even opening a portal.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I want to get to know more anime like this one.

Are there any anime out there that come close to the quality of this anime?
Quality in my opinion means: quality drawings, humor and moral. Rurouni Kenshin is a good example. Pokemon, Onmyou Taisenki and DBZ are bad examples.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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Who is Pride? I can't find him in my FMA book. Is Pride = Dante? I have all characters in that book: gluttony, lust, envy, wrath, greed, sloth but can't find pride. Normally it should include all 7 sins...

Didn't know Leviathan was representing envy, thanks for that info.

Another question: in the anime they never mentioned you had to sacrifice someone to open the gate, or I didn't remember it. Lyra just touched the baby's head and the door opened. I think the baby represents death and birth meaning reincarnation. Also the portal seems like a door to the afterlife or something, Izumi says it's hell, but it could also be heaven.

In theory to open the gate we saw Alphonse, Izumi's baby and that other baby being sacrificed. I don't remember if rose's baby was really sacrificed, the end went too fast for me.

And Chrono Crusade looks very interesting, so why is it called Chrno Crusade? BTW, that blond haired girl really looks like you know who.

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Originally Posted by Shirokage

I didn't like it. I felt that

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belonged in the alchemic world.

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Yeah, who wouldn't want to live in an alchemic world... The other world, our world looks so boring.
To accentuate that, they even "bleached" the colours. Seeing that engineering world with fire engines and stuff, I just can't get into that although I'm becoming an engineer next year. There is some affinity in spirit between me and Full Metal Alchemist though.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Does anyone know what the title is of the music those gypsies were playing and singing in the movie? That song was heavenly!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Is there any real history about this anime?

I think it's from the middle ages and there were also alchemists trying to make gold and the philosopher stone was real too. I don't know about the place though. It looks russian and all. That song Bratja (Brothers): what language is it in? It sounds russian. Also it is played by a russian orchestra.

The gypsie song was Kelas btw.

How ya doing, buddy?