October 9, 2026

Lions Led By Robots 33: Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood: Part 7

Party boys, straight men in large groups, stupid work schedules, the horrors of live show logistics, and of course, 3 more episodes of Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

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Markus D · October 9, 2026

Some advice about the next chunk of episodes: 1. Episode 27 is a clip show. I would personally suggest watching it and skipping through the recap clips because you get a bit of a reintroduction to Hohenheim, and your mileage may vary, but I think you can get something out of it. 2. With episode 27 being at least partially skippable in mind, I figure you might get to episode 30 in the next chunk of episodes. I'm sorry to spoil [?] this, but episode 30 is going to get into war flashback stuff, and unfortunately it IS only the one episode and stuff got cut out that's in the manga (this was a terrible decision on the show director's part). SO, I highly recommend that you read chapters 58-61 of the manga, because Arakawa put in the effort of talking to actual soldiers, this is a military podcast at it's core, and some of the stuff that gets cut out of the anime is REALLY GOOD.

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Markus D · October 9, 2026

Eh, Ed's metal foot has joints on it, so you wouldn't really want that to start getting clogged with mud and stuff. I get wearing a shoe.

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Gil the Gilded Dragon · October 9, 2026

Moloch us a verb not a noun; it means "to sacrifice by passing through fire" but the nouns Melech (King) and Malak (divine messenger, angel) are spelled the same m'l'x so thats why a form of sacrifice practived in the ancient levant (cananites, hebrews, phoenicians, carthagenies) got interpreted as the proper name of a god. and oh my gilgamussy; it distresses me how THOROUGHLY Joe would have had me joining the army. Like so so so so many cults had me wander in and had mee bounce because they threw quite charming ladies but...pearls before pig; like i was 16 when i read Confessions of a Mask and went "oh Yuki...you would have loved Tagame Gengoroh, also wow you freak, you do mak make the gloves sound hot" thus "barracks are dudes being homoerotic..." followed by that "just kiss me already" i made 《Unsprechliche Sterben-Drang》 In-vidia wouldnt have died within the avoral aeternion he'd have been sososososo fucked ALSO speaking of mid century germanophilic quasiaristocratic literary weirdos! Garden of Forking Paths! TOM youre a borges character there; the blind argentinian details the CYOA novelette almost 40 years beforethe first one is published

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AnnoyingSpanishGuy · October 9, 2026

If you want a gundam game just play ace combat