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Analyzing Every Homunculus - Fullmetal Alchemist VS Brotherhood (Patreon)

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Hey there folks! I got in done in time yay. I hope you enjoy it. Tis time to move onto the next video. 

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Analyzing Every Homunculus - Fullmetal Alchemist VS Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood

FMA VS FMA:B series finally continues with the homunculi analysis! Whoa nelly what a time to be alive. Also, I accidentally uploaded this as unlisted but in a playlist so some people found it earlier and left comments on that version. Out of fear that YouTube wouldn't send it out to subscribers properly now, I reuploaded it. Thanks to the 128 people who found it early for being so on top of things. You are majestic. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lowart Time Stamps for each section: 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:02:10 - Part One: Mangahood and 2003's Gluttony, Mangahood's Sloth, Mangahood's Lust 00:07:45 - Part Two: 2003's Lust 00:13:00 - Part Three: Mangahood's Wrath 00:18:19 - Part Four: 2003's Pride 00:22:25 - Part Five: Mangahood's Envy 00:25:13 - Part Six: 2003's Envy 00:26:50 - Part Seven: Mangahood's Greed 00:31:09 - Part Eight: 2003's Greed 00:34:02 - Part Nine: Mangahood's Pride 00:35:30 - Part Ten: 2003's Wrath and Sloth Background music (by section and order used): Introduction 1. Versus Homunculus (Brotherhood) PART ONE 1. Battle Scherzo (Brotherhood) 2. Lurking (Brotherhood) 3. Laws of Alchemy (Brotherhood) PART TWO 1. Fate (2003) 2. Homunculus (2003) 3. Ryouryou (2003) PART THREE 1. To Be King (Brotherhood) 2. Spiral of Truth (Brotherhood) 3. One is All, All is One (Brotherhood) PART FOUR 1. Amestris (2003) 2. Ominous Clouds (2003) PART FIVE 1. Envy Revealed - Adagio (Brotherhood) 2. Desolation (Brotherhood) PART SIX 1. Juurin (2003) PART SEVEN 1. Ante Meridiem (Brotherhood) 2. Sorrowful Stone (Brotherhood) PART EIGHT 1. Gouyoku - Greed (2003) 2. Dante (2003) PART NINE 1. Pride (Brotherhood) 2. T.B.C. (Brotherhood) PART TEN 1. Infiltration (2003) 2. Fate (2003) 3. Wakare no Kyoku - based on Etude 10, No. 3 by Chopin (2003) Credits: Swoosh sound fx comes from kwahmah-02 on freesound.org Heavy object slide woosh comes from originaljun on freesound.org Bamboo swing b17 comes from inspectorj on freesound.org

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Conrad

I very much enjoyed this. I particularly appreciated how you pointed out the psychological & moral significance of Envy's end in Brotherhood. I will admit when I first watched Brotherhood I really did not like Envy's end because it felt like saccharine moralizing about how preserving life is better than killing--we must save Mustang's soul!--& how human relations are important. However, the latter is so obviously true & Brotherhood's having Ed & Al never kill is only achieved via plot armor so I was pretty unsatisfied. But in contextual the failure to kill Envy as symbolic of a rejection action on hatred and the societal consequences of that, I honestly think it's somewhat powerful.

Conrad

I do disagree somewhat with your dissatisfaction with Bradley 2003 though. Two factors that you don't mention, but which I think absolutely crucial to comprehending him are: 1) he was a created by Dante just like Greed was but was created long after both Greed & Envy & 2) he is a humunculus who can age that Dante refers to as her greatest masterpiece. Through (2) we learn something about Dante. Just as she conducts experiments to learn more about the Gate, so she also experimented with the humunculi to see what she could do & Bradley's ability to age was the result of her experimentation. In this way there's actuality a similarity between Bradley of 2003 & Bradley of Brotherhood. However, whereas Bradley in Brotherhood was the only surviving man out of a great many men that were experimented on, given how rare humunculi in the 2003 series are & the special situation required for their creation, it seems most likely that Dante's Pride is far more special than Father's Wrath. Given that Greed was an ex-lover of Dante's it's reasonable to assume per (1) that Bradley 2003 was also an ex-lover of Dante who, unlike Greed, retained some sense of affection to her or, perhaps more likely, Dante was able to control the process of creating Pride to such an extent that he alone is a humunculus who does not hate his creator. That fact that Bradley 2003 is Pride actually seems to work pretty well on a conceptual level. Certainly Bradley 2003--unlike Bradley Brother--is not unsure about his true identity & having confidence in one's identity seems to be a requirement for the feeling of pride whereas wrath does not seem to require firm identity. Less abstractly, Dante has enormous pride in her creation. So too, Bradley boasts to Mustang about his successes as leader of Amestris, he boasts to both Marta & Mustang about his great skill as a fighter, & in his fight with Mustang Bradley also boasts about his power as a humunculus--Bradley goes so far as to let Mustang explode his entire body because he has so much pride in his abilities. As you rightly note, Bradley's pride in his abilities & his contempt for humans makes him quite similar to Envy. I would agree with you that it really would have made Bradley 2003's end far more powerful if we had had just a little more time with Bradley & Selim--while the ending with them & Mustang worked for me I would have appreciated a little more background. This disagreement aside, I continue to love your work as always.

Lowart
>>31880851

Interesting stuff. I am planning to discuss a bit more about the way the homunculi illuminate details about Dante and Father in the next video, so I will at the least discuss the idea that she created him as her greatest masterpiece.

Conrad

Lowart since you're going to be eventually doing a video on Dante have you seen the following videos by Goatjesus & Merlinthemight? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IShQ2rrKACg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjweNrPjYaY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIj3SqKng2U&list=PLJGDnc-uxu5p_521-CeYesZBff-JbRMvX&index=3&t=0s I love a lot of what Goatjesus says (though as a someone who teaches college religion & philosophy his presentation of the history of Christian conception of the soul & hell is a bit inaccurate, although well used in his literary analysis) and I think what Merlin says about Dante is really fascinating too (although for the life of me I am perplexed by how wrong he presents Hohenheim--Hohenheim's story is not the story of someone who always believed in the goodness of what alchemy could do for people, he was once a selfish monster like Dante who, for reasons unknown, eventually decided to become a better man many decades ago & truly became decent after meeting Trisha). Of course much as I appreciate Goatjesus & Merlin's thoughts I am SUPER stoked to hear your thoughts.

Lowart
>>31971527

I haven't seen either of those videos. If I don't check them out before my video, I will definitely check them out after, so thanks for the suggestions :) Also, it's interesting to hear that you teach religion and philosophy. My analysis of Dante and Father will involve going into the origin of the 7 deadly sins, so would you be willing to look over that section of the script for me once it's complete? That way I can be confident that I'm correct in what I'm saying, and that I haven't dropped the ball research-wise.