The second to last FMA chapter is out on Onemanga

[effervescible]

Holy. Shit.

YOU GUYS, GO READ IT AND THEN TALK TO ME ABOUT IT IN THE COMMENTS BECAUSE HOLY SHIT.

Also, this makes wonderful epic background music.

Comments

[sophiap.livejournal.com]

I'm still flailing and OMGing. AL!!!!!

Also, Roy and Riza were just... guh...

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Al ;_;

Roy and Riza in this chapter demonstrated perfectly why they are my partner(ship). I would enjoy rabid weaselsex for them, but I'm also satisfied the way they are.

[incandescens]

I know! I just read it!!!

All round gaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Along with some dsahgdksakshslajshkjas

[incandescens]

And a fair amount of no no no no, not to mention the excuse me, my throat seems to be choking up for some reason.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Is it dusty there? It's dusty here. I have something in my eye.

[incandescens]

Definitely dusty here too. Same here.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking Hohenheim is going to get to prove how much he loves his kids next chapter.

[incandescens]

It would fit, and be the logical way to pay off debts.

Though... awwwwwwww.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

I know, I kind of hope that's not what happens, because I love Hoho and I really want him to have a chance at knowing his kids and spending normal time with them.

[incandescens]

Right. Sniff.

Hm, new prompt season is open on springkink. I will hope for some decent FMA ones.

(And some decent Bleach ones, and... well, you know the drill.)

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I am thinking something based on Riza telling blind!Roy where to aim. *cough*

(Bleach is a given.)

[incandescens]

Yes. Riza/Roy are so absolutely together. :)

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Oh, but don't you know that ship was sunk in the chapter where he faced Envy? Someone's icon says so, so it must be true.

[incandescens]

To misquote Catullus:

My icon says that the character prefers to be shipped
with no one but my favourite, even if the author has written it:
so my icon says: but what an icon says on livejournal,
it ought to write on the current and swift-erased electrons.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Have I told you lately that I love you?

Also, someone just pointed this out--check out the upper right corner here: http://www.onemanga.com/Full_Metal_Alchemist/107/02-03/

[maeveth.livejournal.com]

...is that...is that HUGHES HOLDING A PICTURE??

[jaina.livejournal.com]

IT IS.

There's also Kimbley holding his dapper hat, and Havoc holding a smoke.

[maeveth.livejournal.com]

It's not a party unless EVERYONE is invited!

[incandescens]

Thank you!

But also, awww. How right that he should be represented. And showing family photographs. :)

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

AAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!!!



*wibbles*


KICK HIS ASS ED!!!!!

[jaina.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAL D:

That was an amazing moment, watching his arm come back. I was crying by then.

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Me too... TT^TT


The last chapter is gonna kill me, I just know it. Why do I have to wait a whole friggin' month?

[angstymcgoth.livejournal.com]

*SNIFF SNIFF WIBBLE*

OMG AL

OMG ED

OMG GREED JUST WANTED TO HAVE FRAAAAAAAANDS ;___;

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Greed's realization was kind of stereotypically shonen, unusual for Arakawa, but still hilarious because it's GREED.

[kawree.livejournal.com]

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PAGE 57 BROKE MY HEART K. BUT ROY AND RIZA ARE FUCKING AWESOME ALSGHJDKLSDHJFKJGHK

also was i the only one kind of >/ that the quality of the scanlation itself was kind of crappy?

[jaina.livejournal.com]

SO MUCH FUCKING AWESOME SAHDGKSADJGHSAKHGDA my heart got broken and reformed several times. Alchemy!

You're not, but it looks like this isn't one of the usual groups--they're taking their time with it still. This was just to sate our rabid appetites.

[kawree.livejournal.com]

NOMNOMNOMNOMNOM

[jaina.livejournal.com]

INORITE.

I started crying a little bit. Out of joy and sadness both. Oh, Alphonse. That was so beautifully done.

[kawree.livejournal.com]

it really was. was not expecting that, though i feel like i should have been.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

As soon as I saw how damaged he was, I expected something like that. It's just what he would do. And Ed knows that, and knew it as soon as he saw, and the NO DON'T / YOU IDIOT was so beautifully anguished.

[maeveth.livejournal.com]

ALSKDJFLASKJFLASKFJ

also

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and some BAWWWWWWWWWWW.

OH GOD ALPHONSE. damnitdamnitcursemysoftspotforthatcharacter I knew he was going to do something like that though...when they showed the crack touching his blood seal, I just knew he was going to go down and save Ed. And then Ed going fucking POSTAL in retaliation...amazing. Baww.

(I actually think I ship Roy/Riza after this chapter.)

Greed's realization actually cracked me the fuck up because, yeah, GREED. I love Greed though, just love him. I hope he sticks around and makes everyone's life a merry hell because OH HEY LOOK, THEY'RE HIS FRIENDS NOW THAT MEANS THEY'LL NEVER BE RID OF HIM BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Demanding friend!Greed + insatiable appetite!Ling = fun for the whole family

[jaina.livejournal.com]

WHAT YOU SAID, THIS IS WHAT I THINK. Oh, Al. Oh, Al. That moment was beautiful and brave and you knew it had to be done, knew it would be, and still...

Oh, Al.

Bets on Hohopapa sacrificing himself for his son, though? Sniff.

(Ahaha yes. Everyone should. It cemented why I am equally happy with them as they are or if they have rabid weasel sex—I ship them, but they're so fantastic on screen already that anything more would be icing on the cake.)

The Greed thing actually took me out of the moment a little bit because it's SUCH a stereotypically shonen thing, kinda unlike Arakawa...but the fact that it's fucking GREED kicked in a few seconds later and made it hilarious.

Oh, yes. And if there is not annoyingly friendly Greed fic after the end, I will be disappoint.

[hallowd.livejournal.com]

*BRB SOBBING FOREVER*

[jaina.livejournal.com]

*reaching out to you across oceans to hold because she is also sobbing*