Fullmetal Alchemist & One of the Darkest Episodes of Anime

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Everyone who knows anything about anime has heard of the infamous episode of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. However,due to the viral meme, many who have never seen anime have also been exposed to one of the most traumatic things to happen in anime. The imagery is so powerful that they were able to grasp the concept even without the entire context. But for those who don’t know exactly what was happening leading up to the frames included in that meme, the impact of the scene can only truly be understood within the context of the world and episode that contained it.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood follows the story of Edward and Alphonse Elric, two brothers, as they work to redeem themselves following a tragic alchemy incident. They travel the country looking for an item they believe can help them undo what they did and in the process encounter many people, and alchemists. One such State Alchemist taught the boys that not all humans truly have humanity.

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Edward Elric long ago lost his arm and his leg, while his brother lost his entire corporeal form. In their search to return his brother to a mortal shell, Ed and Alphonse decided to visit the Sewing-Life Alchemist: a State Alchemist who received his license two years prior when he had managed to create a chimera that was capable of human speech. The process of bio-alchemy is able to modify an existing creature and augment it to be better than the original species, and when it is used as such the resulting creation is called a chimera. He was the first such creature that was capable of human speech.

This shocking scientific advancement is why Ed and Alphonse believe that his research may hold the key to restoring