Full Metal Alchemist 13

January 21, 2004

Title: Flame versus Full Metal
Fansubbed by: ANBU & Anime-Keep

After returning to military headquarters, Edward Elric decides to pursue the legendary Philosopher's Stone by tracking down a suspicious military doctor called Marco.

However, Edward's superior (Col. Mustang) refuses to give Edward information . . .

so Edward challenges him to a duel, which is a rather poor decision.

The End

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RATING: B

After the tense prior episodes (11 & 12), it's great to be back in East City with Mustang. As epected, the humor in the episode is quite funny (i.e. Mustang wanting to be commander-in-chief so he can make everyone wear miniskirts), and it meshes well both with regard to providing a filler-ish break and giving a segue into the next story arc.

Having said that, the music in the ending is simply phenomenal and the Japanese-English typography for the lyrics (done by DeathWolf, Aionion, Rutro, and Kosoke) is outstanding. It'll be interesting to see why Mustang murdered an unknown woman, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see :)

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