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MeggieMay · 2006-03-30, 22:15

Did anyone else think the OVA about the post movie was seriously confusing?

Spoiler:

The setting is clearly 2005 and at first I thought seeing many of the movie characters as seemingly re-incarnated kids (the three children chibi versions of Ed, Al, and Winfrey who we follow (and they are looking at a FMA Movie poster), as well as a group of kids playing a card game that look like Havoc, Roy, Maes and the red head guy from FMA) was just some sort of wink and smile type thing by the production team. However, we then cut to someone who seems to be Ed, only he doesn't look all that much over the age of 40, even though he has a picture of himself with a older Al from the past (older than the movie IMO but not that much older than the movie time period). He also seems to live with the three children we follow earlier and I suspect they are calling him grandfather, even though I don't understand Japanese (however, Ed's Japanese VA mentioned in a article a few months back that Ed would be looking after his Grandchildren in this OVA, which is why I'm guessing this).

What on earth is up with Ed, I wonder?! His being the kids grandfather isn't that far fetched (people in their 40/50s do have grandchildren) but how did he get into the future? Where is Al? Ed looking at the picture really doesn't fill in much, other than I got the feeling Al isn't with Ed at the moment.

One other thing - did anyone else notice what all was on the bulletin board we see right before we cut to future Ed? Along with the picture sitting in front of the board which is clearly Ed with a Black navel officer (who seems to be in a U.S. uniform but I could be wrong on that), the bullitin board has news items on it about the Challanger Disaster and 9/11, along with other things (but I didn't notice anything on the board that would date back as far as WWII, though there easily could have been - the board is extremely cluttered). The entire OVA makes me wonder if the viewers are suppose to believe that FMA really happened or not but why we're suppose to be thinking about this I'm not too sure about (I'm also not that certain that Tokyo of today is really our Tokyo of today either, no matter what Ed's VA said on that subject in the same article that mentioned the grandkids).

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MeggieMay Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004	Did anyone else think the OVA about the post movie was seriously confusing? Spoiler: The setting is clearly 2005 and at first I thought seeing many of the movie characters as seemingly re-incarnated kids (the three children chibi versions of Ed, Al, and Winfrey who we follow (and they are looking at a FMA Movie poster), as well as a group of kids playing a card game that look like Havoc, Roy, Maes and the red head guy from FMA) was just some sort of wink and smile type thing by the production team. However, we then cut to someone who seems to be Ed, only he doesn't look all that much over the age of 40, even though he has a picture of himself with a older Al from the past (older than the movie IMO but not that much older than the movie time period). He also seems to live with the three children we follow earlier and I suspect they are calling him grandfather, even though I don't understand Japanese (however, Ed's Japanese VA mentioned in a article a few months back that Ed would be looking after his Grandchildren in this OVA, which is why I'm guessing this). What on earth is up with Ed, I wonder?! His being the kids grandfather isn't that far fetched (people in their 40/50s do have grandchildren) but how did he get into the future? Where is Al? Ed looking at the picture really doesn't fill in much, other than I got the feeling Al isn't with Ed at the moment. One other thing - did anyone else notice what all was on the bulletin board we see right before we cut to future Ed? Along with the picture sitting in front of the board which is clearly Ed with a Black navel officer (who seems to be in a U.S. uniform but I could be wrong on that), the bullitin board has news items on it about the Challanger Disaster and 9/11, along with other things (but I didn't notice anything on the board that would date back as far as WWII, though there easily could have been - the board is extremely cluttered). The entire OVA makes me wonder if the viewers are suppose to believe that FMA really happened or not but why we're suppose to be thinking about this I'm not too sure about (I'm also not that certain that Tokyo of today is really our Tokyo of today either, no matter what Ed's VA said on that subject in the same article that mentioned the grandkids).