![]() The State only accepts 1-2 Alchemists every year. With the Practical Skills portion, half is a demonstration, half is on-the-spot application. Later, Tucker explains the format of the Exam: a written Test (first), then an Interview, then Practical Skills. The next day, Al and Ed work on teaching Al how to Transmute without using a Circle. In the next scene, there is a healthy baby, a bawling Hughes, a grinning doctor, and a smiling, grateful Gracie. Ed, without using a Transmutation Circle, somehow heats some water for Gracie. U ltimately, (somewhat) cooler heads prevail, but not before the announcement that Gracie “can feel its head sticking out” sends everyone back into Panic Mode. The kids are in various stages of “Freak Out”, also. Hughes freaks out before running off to get a doctor. There are more stills of everyone seemingly having a good-to-great time, eating, drinking tea, and being around other company.īack to “present time”: As she brings out some extra tea, Gracie’s water suddenly breaks. Hughes invites everyone to his house, where we finally meet Hughes’s very-pregnant girlfriend, Gracie, a very sweet woman. He came to give Ed a “study break for his birthday”, to the shock of all, even Alexander (Ed never told anyone his birthday Hughes found out on his own). Major Hughes arrived while Ed was drawing. In return, Ed draws a Transmutation Circle and makes her “Magic Flowers”. ![]() Nina confesses that she’ll get lonely once the boys leave. It was nice to see the Elric boys being… well, boys. This leads to a heartwarming scene that counteracts the Nina-Al dinner scene: all four of the kids (and dog) playing and laying in the snow, laughing. He goes outside to find Nina, Alexander, and Al making Snow Angels. Back in the present-day, Ed is in the library when he hears Alexander barking. The next few scenes are a time-skip: images of the brothers studying, practicing, playing with Nina and Alexander, and in Tucker’s Reference Room. He “eats” it (by just dropping it in his suit of armor) this saddens Ed, knowing that Nina means no harm but also knowing that Al will never know what food tastes like again, until he gets his body back. Nina and Al have an unintentional heart-punch moment: Nina, noticing that Al isn’t eating and worried about him, tries to get him to eat a roll. Later, at dinner, Ed reaffirms his commitment to passing the Exam. Something that I’ve noticed in this episode and episode 5: both Nina and the little girl on the train called the brothers, especially Al, “Big Brother”. The boys want to see the Chimera Tucker instead tells them that it died but shows them his “Reference Room”, a not-small personal library, and opens it up to their use. Nina is curious about “Big Brother’s clothes, which are like pots and pans”, before she is sent outside to play with Alexander (the dog). The boys and Mustang, after Ed has a close encounter with Tucker’s over-sized, friendly dog, enter the palace estate. The military still has no idea how he pulled this feat off. 2 years prior, Tucker somehow managed to combine parts of animals into a “Chimera” that could speak the human language Tucker passed the Alchemy Exam, as a result. Tucker has a 4-year-old daughter named Nina but no answer was given about his wife when Al inquired about her. The boys and Mustang travel to the Tucker Estate Mustang gives them a brief background of Tucker. This is where they will spend the next few months of the story, training for the Exam. He informs the brothers that they have to find training on their own but suggests that they start with the Sewing Life Alchemist, Shao Tucker. Ed is bragging about passing the State Alchemy Exam (in the previous episode) with ease, while Mustang is bemusedly warning him to not get too cocky just yet. Roy Mustang is in Central City with Ed and Al Elric. The pre-Intro portion of this episode was pretty short. Episodes 1-3 are on my page 4 and 5 are on Comicdom Wrecks. This is a joint review of the “Fullmetal Alchemist” series (not the ‘Brotherhood’ series) on my page and on the “Comicdom Wrecks” page, under the “Saturday Morning Cartoon” feature.
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