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Things I loved:
–Everything with the military.
–The whole sequence with Riza getting her throat slit, Roy being forcing into human transformation and going blind (SO DELICIOUSLY IRONIC. That is one thing Arakawaa does excellent. But nothing will beat Al's soul costing an arm and a leg).
–How much deliciously bloody Riza and Roy we got.
–scruffy!Havoc. I loled when Roy calls him, thinking he was a military bigwig.
–SCAR BEING HIS AWESOME SELF. HE'S THE MAN WITH NO NAME AND HE'S GOING BACK TO ISHVAL TO REBUILD HIS PEOPLE.
–Olivia Armstrong. I always knew she was awesome - but these last chapters made me feel it in my soul.
–Edward being quite sexy.
–Edward exchanging his alchemy for Al.
–The subtle way Arakawa shows the benefits of doing things the old fashioned way. Those images of Ed and Al on the roof were throat tightening. They were so content.
–Ed's proposal.
Things I didn't like:
–Too many people survived.
– I started getting End of Eva flashbacks with the blobby-eye homunculus.
–The homunculi took WAY too long to die. WAY too long.
–One day there will be a fictional ninja named Mai who I like. Today is not that day. I was trying to figure out what it was that bugged me about her and what I came to was this: FMA is not a series with naive people in it. Mai, however, is naive and manipulatable and unlike Ed and Al and Winry and Roy and Riza and Lan Fan and everyone who was even in the military and Gracia and every other cast member, she never actually has consequences for her naïveté. In a similar vein, I'm not a big fan of Ling, and I don't like that he gets to trot off to his homeland with the philosopher's stone. Additionally, have we ever seen that his is a legitimately BETTER ruler than the hundred people in between him and the throne?
–Everything with the military.
–The whole sequence with Riza getting her throat slit, Roy being forcing into human transformation and going blind (SO DELICIOUSLY IRONIC. That is one thing Arakawaa does excellent. But nothing will beat Al's soul costing an arm and a leg).
–How much deliciously bloody Riza and Roy we got.
–scruffy!Havoc. I loled when Roy calls him, thinking he was a military bigwig.
–SCAR BEING HIS AWESOME SELF. HE'S THE MAN WITH NO NAME AND HE'S GOING BACK TO ISHVAL TO REBUILD HIS PEOPLE.
–Olivia Armstrong. I always knew she was awesome - but these last chapters made me feel it in my soul.
–Edward being quite sexy.
–Edward exchanging his alchemy for Al.
–The subtle way Arakawa shows the benefits of doing things the old fashioned way. Those images of Ed and Al on the roof were throat tightening. They were so content.
–Ed's proposal.
Things I didn't like:
–Too many people survived.
– I started getting End of Eva flashbacks with the blobby-eye homunculus.
–The homunculi took WAY too long to die. WAY too long.
–One day there will be a fictional ninja named Mai who I like. Today is not that day. I was trying to figure out what it was that bugged me about her and what I came to was this: FMA is not a series with naive people in it. Mai, however, is naive and manipulatable and unlike Ed and Al and Winry and Roy and Riza and Lan Fan and everyone who was even in the military and Gracia and every other cast member, she never actually has consequences for her naïveté. In a similar vein, I'm not a big fan of Ling, and I don't like that he gets to trot off to his homeland with the philosopher's stone. Additionally, have we ever seen that his is a legitimately BETTER ruler than the hundred people in between him and the throne?
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