Japanese FMA 41 Title: "Holy Mother"
American FMA 41 Title: "Holy Mother"
Japanese Airdate: July 24, 2004
American Airdate: January 07, 2006
Important Characters: Ed, Scar, Lust, Lyra, Rose, Wrath and Sloth
Important Locations: Liore
Synopsis: Liore's people continue to lose their leader and have become confused. The military takes advantage of their confusion and plans a suppression operation. The repression force finally marches to the town. Meanwhile, Scar tries to complete the Philosopher's Stone by using the soldiers fighting in the Liore civil war.
Thoughts
A little explanation about this and the next episode is needed. Originally in Japan, episode 41 was postponed for a week due to the 2004 Olympics. To make up for this, Bones aired the episode along with 42 as a one hour Summer special. Because of this, a small intro with scenes from a previous episode while Ed spoke of the special starting up played before the episode started. The Japanese broadcast was missing the usual dialogue Al has in generally most episodes and there wasn't a commercial break in the middle of the episode. At the end of the episode, there's a humorous little skit for the Next Episode preview between Ed and Al where Ed mentions
to the viewers not to change the channel since he's transmuted the TV into an explosive. Al tells his brother to stop lying and Ed continues with asking the viewers to stay for the second half and ends with "Oh, it blew up!" I'm pretty sure the transfer to DVD could not retain the same things, unless it was similar to episode 25 and had the alternate endings depending on TV broadcast or DVD. [adult swim] aired the episode as a normal episode and cut for a commercial break right before the talk with Pride after Armstrong tells Archer the Fuhrer is correct that they should hold off on attacking Liore for a day. The episode also aired without a Next Episode preview, which would lead one to believe the preview's not in the DVD. Anyone with the Japanese DVD wanna confirm this form me? ^^;
This episode also marks the final run for the third Japanese opening of Undo, as well as the final airing. Also the the final airing of the third ending, Motherland. The next episode starts with Rewrite and ends with I Will. This also ends the English broadcasting run of the second Japanese opening, Ready Steady Go (FINALLY).
As for how the episode faired, this DEFINATELY leaves you at the edge of your seat, especially for those watching the English dub since we have to wait a week for the next episode, unlike Japan. As for the dub, quite perfect. Every scene was left in tact. Dialogue was spot on. Only beef is the inconsistancy with Scar. So now we can see Scar jam his arm straight through Kimbley's chest, blood spray and all yet it's a big no-no when it involves a head? And it's funny I never realized Kimbley's voice sounded so familiar until this episode. Eric Vale sounded just about identical to his Trunks voice, from Dragon Ball Z/GT. Not that that's a bad thing. :P All in all, the episode was fantastic in both languages.
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