2009-11-09, 22:40 | Link #1062 |
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The thing that is kinda odd is, if they could literally force a person to become a sacrifice, why did the wait so long with Goldtooth and Kimblee in their services? Unless, they weren't powerful enough, in which case it's probably Roy doing the transmutation. Now that I think about it, it being Roy actually makes more sense, especially since his arms are pinned to the ground while Goldtooth is floating in the air, since most times it seems like for a normal transmutation, you just put your hands in a transmutation circle.
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2009-11-09, 23:31 | Link #1063 | |
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I think we talked about this before, two pages ago... Look and you'll see what we all think about the eyepatch.
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2009-11-10, 07:10 | Link #1068 |
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I'm pretty sure Roy is transmuting Goldtooth. Goldtooth doesn't look like he's being "controlled" to do anything, he plain got stabbed by Pride and was thrown into the cirlce as an ingredient.
I'm not entirely pleased with this chapter, because it kinda feels to me that reading it month to month now is feeling a bit draggy. Each chapter resolves the previous chapter's cliffhanger, only to lead to a new cliffhanger, without actually resulting in any story progress. This has happened for a few months now. I really liked the Wrath vs Greed chapters, but I feel that the storyline with everyone else since they met Goldtooth in the basement of Central has been dragged on precisely so we would not know the "truth" behind Father's ultimate plan. That's the real question most people are thinking about as the series hits the climax, and Arakawa seems content to drag that on while playing "Zomg will Hawkeye die? Just kidding!" for the 5th time. |
2009-11-10, 10:05 | Link #1070 | |
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And every chapter of FMA ends on a cliffhanger. Also nothing is being resolved? I mean in this chapter they somehow got Roy as the 5th sacrifice. That means Father has all his sacrifices. But no that's nothing. And I am sure we will find out his plan in due time. Clearly things are not going to be solved for the good guys until the very end (even though they already killed most of the homunculus and took control of Central...but that's nothing as well). The story is moving towards the end but I would not want a hacked rush job to get there. So if only one or two big things happen in each chapter, that's good enough for me. |
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2009-11-10, 13:48 | Link #1071 | |
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2009-11-10, 18:29 | Link #1074 |
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Glad that Mei's alchemy came in handy, although (momentarily) giving up the philosophers stone, which would raise the status of her entire clan, to save the life of one person shows how far she's grown in the manga as well. But dammit there was no Ed/Al/Izumi/Hoenhiem in this chapter! We so aren't finishing this by the end of the year.
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2009-11-11, 03:35 | Link #1075 |
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Another amazing chapter this month, Man i'll really miss this manga when it ends.
I'm glad it avoided the cliche of Roy doing human transmutation intentionally to try and save Riz. Also glad that a lot of other characters showed up. Pride was pure badass, Though the lack of Kimblee in his personality was a bit disappointing. I hope we get at least 5 more chapters before it ends. |
2009-11-11, 13:22 | Link #1077 |
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I think you are all missing something. Nowhere in the manga does it explicitly say that to become a sacrifice, one has to perform human transmutation. But it does say that one has to open the Gate (the reason why Mustang was preferable over Kimbley, remember?). Human transmutation is the easiest way to do that, of course, but not the only. Hohenheim proved that. Pride is performing human transmutation using Goldtooth. The transmutation is probably to either heal Wrath (who, as a single-soul homunculus is probably "equivalent" to a single human in alchemic terms) or "transmute" Roy similar to how Ed transmuted himself to get out of Gluttony. The reason is unimportant. Roy is going along for the ride as with Hohenheim at Xerxes (or possibly Al in Resembool). The end result is that Roy ends up on the other side next chapter and has to open the Gate to get back. Wrath will convince him to do so, probably by informing him (likely truthfully) that they can just as easily have Goldtooth heal himself with Roy as the toll and that this way Roy at least has a fighting chance. Thus Roy becomes a sacrifice.
Of course it will all backfire (no pun intended), since Roy will as a result probably learn a much easier way to produce fire than the one he has now... ^_^ Unfortunately, ignored in all of this plot development is Arakawa's genius at composition. Is that shot of Pride holding the impaled Goldtooth over Wrath and Roy not just a thing of (undeniably creepy) beauty? I'm not. Every time a new chapter comes out it feels like we're two chapters closer to the end, as Arakawa manages to logically cram more into each one. The only three loose threads I see remaining are the specifics of Father's plan, the current whereabouts of Al (most likely answered already in the opening shot of the chapter) and (possibly) the further extent (if any) of Mustang's knowledge of Hawkeye-sensei's alchemy (I still think there's more to that). Everything else will be logically resolved dependent upon which of the protagonists survive the end and how they defeat Father.
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2009-11-11, 14:01 | Link #1078 |
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I seem to recall (at least in the anime) that Hawkeye-sensei said that he had stopped doing research years ago, would be interesting if he stopped doing research because he hit a block and, by going to the other side of the gate, Mustang gains enough knowledge to complete his work. And I think that by having Mustang's hands pinned to the ground he's the one doing the transmutation and Goldtooth is the price since he's sorta-kinda suspended over it.
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2009-11-11, 20:41 | Link #1080 |
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I don't know how Mustang could be forced against his will to perform any kind of transmutation. Alchemy has always been shown to be initiated and focused by the will of the caster. Unless he's being mentally controlled (as Goldtooth, currently being "eaten" by Pride, could be), I don't see it.
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