Honest Trailers Anime - Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is the 8th episode of Screen Junkies spinoff series Honest Trailers Anime. It was narrated by Jon Bailey as Epic Voice Guy. It parodies the Japanese anime series Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. The video is 3 minutes and 36 seconds long. It was first published on August 26, 2017 and is exclusive to the Screen Junkies Facebook page.
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"A reboot of the greatest bromance that history has ever known." ~ Honest Trailers Anime - Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
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From the creator (Hiromu Arakawa) of the epic fantasy drama Arslan Saga (The Heroic Legend of Arslan), and that one about farming you secretly enjoy (Silver Spoon), comes a reboot of the greatest bromance that history has ever known.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Prepare for a series acclaimed for being nearly flawless, as Brotherhood fixes all the problems the original series had, like... straying away from the original manga. ...And that's it; that's literally all they needed to fix.
Journey to the vaguely Nazi Germany country of Amestris, where magic is treated as science, but controlled by a religious godlike cult leader, and meet the Elric brothers: Edward, the Fullmetal Alchemist -- (shows Al) Nope, not that one. (shows Edward) That's the one.
Ed: IT'S NOT HIM! IT'S ME!
Father Cornello: It's the short one?!
It's a running joke. -- a high-strung pipsqueak who doesn't like being called a midget, a point they beat into the ground that the dead horse is buried under...
Isaac McDougal: But he's a runt.
Man: You mean it's the little guy there?
May: --YOU HUMAN MICROBE!
Ling: --you little runt.
Ed: WHO YOU CALLING A LITTLE RUNT, YOU JEEERK?!
...and his brother Alphonse, a suit of armor who's constantly going through an existential crisis. Watch as the Elric brothers try to restore their bodies to normal... while everyone around them loses theirs. I get it, Brotherhood; automail is cool, but this is just excessive.
Meet new and familiar characters, with their diverse and colorful cast of Europeans and ambiguous ethnics, like... Winry, the childhood friend whose feelings are constantly steamrolled, who somehow conveniently appears when the plot calls for it; Roy Mustang, the cocky Flame Alchemist who might as well be a One Piece character because he is just as useless in water; Ling Yao, the first non-brown or white person introduced, that is so Asian, they might as well have given him a rice hat, because you really, really can't make it worse...
Ling: So sorry, I no understand much language of this country. Okay, bye-bye now!
...and the Homunculus, superpowered non-human characters that, for some reason, are all on-theme like an even more messed-up version of the Jackson 5, psychotic father figure included.
Father: (while extracting Greed from his body) BEGONE, FOOL! RETURN TO NOTHING! (chomps down on Greed)
That's some tough love there, Joe Jackson.
Join these truth-seekers as they unravel a mystery centuries in the making, as each new discovery peels away the sinister conspiracy that threatens everyone's existence, where some of their friends turn out to be evil, only to learn that the government is evil, which is nothing compared to the discovery that all of society is evil. And because they didn't have anything else left to make evil, alchemy is evil, too, in the end. Sure, why not?
So put on your red coat, clap your hands together, and get ready for a series that gives you a bit of old, a bit of new, and an actual, cohesive story... as long as you don't count the final fight, because what the hell was the point of four seasons of alchemy, IF YOU'RE JUST GOING TO PUNCH THE BAD GUY IN THE FACE?! AND IT WASN'T EVEN THE METAL HAND! I'm here for "Fullmetal Alchemist", not "Non-Metal Punching Fist"! UGH!!
Starring: Half Metal Dwarf (Romi Park/Vic Mignogna as Edward "Ed" Elric); Bargain Ironman (Rie Kugimiya/Maxey Whitehead as Alphonse "Al" Elric); Nick Fuhrey (Hidekatsu Shibata/Ed Blaylock as Führer King Bradley); Index (Chika Fujimura/Gwendolyn Lau as Sheska); The Rock (Kenji Utsumi/Christopher Sabat as Alex Louis Armstrong); Ace Dragneel (Shin-ichiro Miki/Travis Willingham as Roy Mustang); Lucy Heartfillia (sic) (Megumi Takamoto/Caitlin Glass as Winry Rockbell); White Zetsu (Mannequin Soldiers); Michael Bay's Biggest Fan (Hiroyuki Yoshino/Eric Vale as Solf J. Kimblee); Scarlet Sharingan (Ishvalans); Sinon Hawkeye (Fumiko Orikasa/Colleen Clinkenbeard as Riza Hawkeye); Po (Rie Kugimiya/Tia Ballard as Shao May); Boob Lust (Kikuko Inoue/Laura Bailey as Lust); Parasyte (Minami Takayama/Wendy Powell as Envy); and I Kill Mufasa (Kenta Miyake/J. Michael Tatum as Scar).
Very Hard Chemist: Bromancehood
The honest title for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood was 'Very Hard Chemist: Bromancehood'.
(shows Father's dwarf form being dragged into the Gate of Truth) So... a fart with an eyeball is behind all of this? How am I supposed to take this seriously?
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- This video was originally exclusive to the paid subscription service Screen Junkies Plus. The video is now exclusive to Screen Junkies' Facebook page.
- Screen Junkies also produced episodes of Honest Trailers Anime for Naruto, Tokyo Ghoul, Fairy Tail, One Piece, Bleach, Sword Art Online, Attack on Titan, One-Punch Man and Hunter x Hunter.