If you have not read my review of episode 3, you may do so here: Full Metal Alchemist E3: Mother…
We open on Ed and Al burning down their house and boarding a train, to begin the journey of becoming a state alchemist. Winry and her grandma didn’t want them to go but they didn’t listen. These boys are focused on getting their bodies back. They managed to stop a mugger and are then told about a town where the dead come back to life. This news is particularly interesting to them for obvious reasons.
Our heroes find out about a man who might be able to perform human transmutations. On their way to find him they get beat up by some kids, due to them not being used to their new bodies yet. After finding Majhal, he tells them not to mess with human alchemy. He also states that he knows their father.
One of the little kids from earlier had a sister who was killed by a ghost. She attempts to run away but Ed and Al manage to stop her in her tracks using alchemy. She tells them about her dead sister. Majhal tells the story of the “ghost”, she died falling off of a cliff. Majhal is able to stop the ghost.
Back at Majhal’s house, Ed hears a noise. It’s the same noise that the ghost was making. Ed and Al discover his secret. Majhal has been making dolls into life by using the souls of girls he has killed. He is trying to bring his long lost love back to life. She supposedly died when she fell off of a cliff.
In reality, Karin (his lost love) had merely lost her memory in the accident. For twenty years she didn’t know who she was but her memory later returned. Majhal refuses to believe her. He refuses to believe this wrinkled woman could be his beautiful Karin. Majhal fights Ed and ends up passing away. During his death he looks past the real Karin, to his dolls, who have the beauty of youth. He loves his fantasy more than the real thing.
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