Full Metal Alchemist E2: Body of the Sanctioned (Part 1)

If you have not read my review for episode 1, you may do so here: Full Metal Alchemist E1: Those Who Challenge the Sun (Part 2)

Cornello mocks Ed and Al for their failure to bring back their Mother.  This is a pretty heartless guy!  Ed and Al only want the philosopher’s stone to fix their bodies, not to perform another human transmutation.  Using alchemy, Cornello creates a gun and fires on Ed, who is able to defend himself by creating a wall just in the nick of time.  Ed may be stronger than Cornello thought, so he orders the town’s people to attack our heroes.

While this is going on, Cornello takes Rose to see her boyfriend (Cornello has been raising him from the dead).  Her boyfriend is behind a curtain but it sounds like him.  The strange thing is, there are feathers everywhere surrounding the bed.  Cornello promises that his body will be ready soon.

Ed and Al get beat up by some living statues, another miracle from Cornello.  They wake up back at Cornello’s, in prison.  Rose brings Ed some food.  Later that night, Cornello is having a nightmare.  He dreams about a giant snake and wakes up to find the mysterious woman from earlier in his room.  Whoever this woman is, she obviously knows more about all of this than anyone else.

Rose sneaks back into her boyfriend’s room, just wanting to see him again.  The curtain blows back to reveal a giant parrot, made from many other birds.  It was only mimicking her boyfriend’s voice.  Cornello is one sick man!  It makes one wonder what his plan was, because obviously he would have to show her eventually.  Was he going to try and make it’s body look human too?  Who knows?

Cornello catches Rose and says she has betrayed him.  He traps her in the room for the giant parrot to kill.  Luckily for Rose, Al shows up and saves her from Cornello’s twisted creations.  This one was of the most crazy scenes I have ever seen in anything.  Cornello has some power, no doubt, but he is twisted and obviously not concerned with hurting others.  How is he able to combine these animals?  Perhaps we will find out in the next review!