One thing I really like about alchemy as a power system is essentially any alchemist can do what any other alchemist can do, as long as they understand what they are doing and can recreate the transmutation circle. The only exception to this is people who have opened the gate. Also a unique form of alchemy Edward figured out is soul alchemy where he can kinda break the rules on a small scale at the cost of his own lifespan he can use his own soul as a 1 soul philosopher stone. Gotta love a universe where the most dangerous dude is a chemistry major with some chalk

Soul binding is always temporary. We saw this with Al near the end of the story and it was mentioned at laboratory 5 too. It's a short life span and while Greed speculated that with enough skill you could just switch from vessel to vessel as they rejected it this was never explored. Also Ed gave up his arm for Al's soul. Father points out that Truth always picks an ironic punishment. Ed wanted to stand and protect his mother and brother and Al wanted to feel his mother's warmth again. Sensei lost her ability to ever have another child and Mustang lost his ability to see a brighter future for Amestris.

Dunno where he's getting that Father powers all alchemy. The alchemists weren't lying, they get their power from tectonic movement. It's just that he spread his philosopher stone throughout Amestris, creating a barrier between the alchemists and the plates that he can turn on and off

At around 4:20 you state "..Father is the thechnical power source for all alchemy in Amestris". This is not correct. What Father did was to extend tubes all along Amestris and he pumps philosopher stone in them to be able to "turn on/off" alchemy in the area. You can see this is the case because towards the end one of the biggest plots is them activating a nation wide circle to counter this "off" effect Father was sure to activate so they couldn't use alchemy. When the counter transmutation circle is activated you can see they are able to use alchemy again, and not only that but at a more powerful level because it wasn't being dumpened by Father anymore. Please refer to episode 61 from approximately 12:40 to 14:40. You can see the activation of the circle, the main characters being able to use alchemy again and the explanation Scar gives about what kind of energy source does each type of alchemy uses.

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Commander, my dude Father's Stone isn't the sole source of Amestrian alchemical energy. If it were, all Amestrian alchemy would produce red lightning. The tectonic plates thing is true, it's just that Father spread his Stone between the plates and the surface to throttle the power of Amestrian alchemists as he pleases. It's basically the exact opposite of what you said in the video Sincerely, Someone who's seen the series at least four times through.

I feel it's important to note that the Freezing Alchemist had a philosophers stone so I feel like maybe he should place a little lower on the list. Just my opinion

Idk if it counts as Alchemy, but Winry and Tifa both kickstarted puberty for me, so idk, that seems powerful if they can influence the real world outside of their anime universes.

Negative 20 points for not flexing while saying through the Armstrong family for generations. And yes I'm flexing while typing this.

Shu tucker: *Hold my dog*

I literally have just been rewatching FMAB, I can’t believe you’re making a video on it again!

As for mustang, he isn't creating pure oxygen persay. He splits the water molecules in the air into hydrogen and oxygen, which then explosively recombine. This is necessary because pure oxygen won't burn without a fuel source, as it's an oxidizer.

I've been waiting for this for too long

Keep up the good work bro, proud of you.

Perfect timing , now I have something to watch on my lunch break

I’m always down for more FMAB content 💕

Keep up the awesome work and videos Nick love the video

Thanks for the great vid

So if I understand this correctly... The alchemy of Amestris is powered by the movement of the earth (which is a very large power source) yet is corrupted by the insidious plans of Father.

FMA is the reason I got into more anime. Such a great show

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Awesome, I've always considered that Chimeric Alchemy has great potential if fully explored.

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The actual reason why Roy Mustang's flame alchemy is called "the strongest" by his master requires a detailed analysis of the tattoo his master left on Lisa Hawkeye's back. In short, his master had discovered the mass-energy equation, as well as nuclear physics. E=MC², and the common equations for nuclear fission and fusion, are actually written in those tattoos. It’s just that these details are not easy to find in comics or animations (after all, they are just a few lines of text hidden in large graphics)

Hey Nick, waiting for your review regarding Ninja Kamui 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Any plans for any ninja kamui content? best new anime comin out now

An fma video hell yeah

Just in time 🎉

Can you do a video of who would win ? Iroh or ozai? I feel like theres a lot of evidence for both to be able to beat one another

Can you do a video on Zatch Bell

Have you ever heard of The Wheel of Time? It's a rather long fantasy series but I think you'd enjoy it.

I like when things go boom :)

There should be a videos on just various style of transmutation like yeah bombs, guns but the individual styles like in the older series with psiren and the trinhm brothers I think or the lightning alchemist just the various ways they do it is a cool concept

Mastermind description and versatile explained.

It's so funny😂 I knew Nick would stumble over iron in blood

Thing about Roy is, he only copied roughly 1\5th of the circle from Rizza back, and said his maximum output with his altered circle from Rizzas fathers set up, can only max out at 1\5 the total power of the flame alchemy that was on her back as record. I still wonder whT the full circle and chant were capable of doin..

PLEASE AS AN ANONYMOUS WEEB AND FELLOW CONTENT LOVER OF YOURS, MY BRO PLEASE MAKE MORE FMA BROTHERHOOD PLEASSSEEEEEE

I always loved the idea of a cooking alchemist, ( maybe related to berry the butcher ? ) that could like transmute bone marrow into soup stalk and perfectly liquify fat and tenderize/cook meet.

nick could you please do a break down and review of wise man’s grandchild please it’s and amazing anime and very unheard of it’s a story line and anime and manga you would like if not that’s alright thank you for your time

You gonna do more one piece updates? Can’t wait for you to get to Wano

Do a top 10 most powerful Insect users in all Anime.

PLEASE do a JJK Season 2 BEST FIGHTS Ranked & Explained!!!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

I miss videos like this

Video idea: Top 10 strongest fairy tail wizards

As someone who started watching fmab for the alchemy, every other listed reason to watch was why I binged it in the way I did.

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@The Weeb Commander no video on dragon ball for the sad news?

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Re: Pyrokenesis, you are so close... fire requires three things: A source of heat, a fuel, and oxygen. So, in Mustang's case, it would be: A spark for a source of heat, hydrogen ripped from water in the air/carbon ripped from CO2 in the air, etc. for fuel, and the oxygen remaining from all of those prior reactions for, well, oxygen.

I think the most impressive part of Scar's brother's alchemy is that you don't need to be an alchemist to use it. The rule is that circles need to be really detailed or you need to know what you're doing exactly. Hence why Ed's alchemy is pretty much always a basic mental circle, he knows his stuff. But scar's tattoos are so detailed that you don't even need basic alchemy knowledge to use them expertly

I see FMA content. I press like. Hahaha.

I agree with neonplane.cover more anime.make more videos like these.

way to dip into dannys content

8:56 He's silently questioning your sanity while acknowledging you're right if you actually thought that

Ya know what i was distracted for a min or 2 becus this guys eyelashes are very nice

Just curious the explosion alchemy has sun and moon to explode. Is this based off HxH sun and moon used by chrollo or is it the other way around?

Officially talking about my 3 favorite FMA H&h and Naruto

The ending to the original was more equivalent exchange than brotherhood. Soul did a soul

About Strongarm-Alchemy: How does this relate to powerscaling? Physically, the world of Alchemists isnt that impressive, but its all very scientific, so questions come to mind like "How would a Town-Level, Mountain-Level and Country-Level each fare if they turned the kinetic Energy from their Attacks into other things?

I really want to see you discuss Record of Ragnarok in my opinion the last year has been the most compelling and controversial it has ever been. I ain’t a youtuber but its been getting a lot of hype lately

PEOPLE!! GO READ “Yomi No Tsugai” ITS BY THE SAME CREATOR OF FULL METAL ALCHEMIST AND IS CURRENTLY THEIR LATEST MANGA THAT THEY’RE WORKING ON.

Hi weeb! March 8th Akira Toriyama passed away but is his blessing id like ask with the forms we have now where it’s going what if cell max reached his final form? Do we repeat the cell games

Funny thing is that Roy's actual alchemy is air not fire. You said so yourself what he actually does is make tubes of pure oxegen, or other flammable gas,for the regular spark or flame to catch on fire. On a side note i actually love how basically every alchemist carries their preferred circle on something. It is just an easy and effective work around and it does sometimes lead to some interesting design choices, like scar's arm tattoo and the silver alchemist's hands.

I literally scream en I saw nick talking about FMA

The Nina Chimera dog gave me nightmares the first time I saw it, so creepy.

I think you're sleeping on transmuting guns. Not only are they making a gun, their creating the gunpowder as well which has like nitre and sulfur and other stuff in, which if they chose to focus on that aspect can do some creative things

Scars abilities are so cool I got it tattooed on my arm

New to the game, is that a giant rabbit behind you?

You mentioned anime only, what about that one bounty hunter who had electricity bending?

Nick: Closest comparison is Edo-tensei Rubrick of Ahriman: Allow me to introduce myself

Roy can theoretically remove oxygen from a certain place suffocating everyone in that area.

pleeeeaaaase make more csm videos

Are those doggies?

Is it weird that I wanna see Nick talk about madoka magica

Now i wanna know more about mustang🙃😭

You dont get the connection between father and alchemy on amestris. Alchemy on amestris draws the energy from tectotic plates, fathers disrupting that through his philosophers stone thats why there so many pipe underground so he can shut off alchemy on his area. The reason why scars brother did his research was to destroy that disruption so alchemist can fully harness the energy from tectonic plates.

Can we talk about the fact that FMAB had the balls to put the major twist of the show in the FIRST EPISODE

I'm a little disappointed we didn't get edward/gated generalist alchemy on this list as becoming your own alchemy circle (or clapping alchemy) is demonstrably the most powerful alchemy method save philosophers stones. Side note: Father wasn't the alchemical source (in the manga at least, didn't see anime.) Instead what he had done was create a barrier under amestris that could seperate Alchemists from the techtonic energy that powered them and maintained it at partial power for the entire series to limit the power available to the Alchemists of amestris.

My favorite alchemy is the presidents sword slice cutting through tanks.

I feel like FMA had one of the best power systems like it’s all basic and it depends on how u use it

So... if Mustangs alchemy is focused on controlling the concentration of oxygen in such an intricate way. When he can't make a spark due to rain or whatever, couldn't he like still manipulate oxygen to a deadly extent, either concentrating the oxygen to make the air poisonous or desaturate the air to suffocate you.. the actual circles aren't damaged by the water so he should still have some kind of teick

Im so glad we got both FMA and FMA:B. Both were excellent, though brotherhood was probably overall better IMO (aside from a few parts)

I don’t see how we always forget how powerful scars destruction alchemy was

bro even now the thought of watching this anime after what happened to that dog scares me

He's like a life size bobblehead

For physics envy would break thermodynamics thus breaking a rule he doesn’t give off immense heat for how compressed his density is with the potentiality to be a sun or black hole. Similar to the Pokémon physics video done by Game Theory

Just thought that Alphonse could be a giant mech

More FMA content

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God full metal alchemist is such a gem. It’s an example of a well written story.

Soul bond alchemy also has the problem that the alchemist fuels the soul instead of the soul fueling itself unless it is done with a philosopher stone

Scar being alchemy and alcehestry is why his was not turned off by father so pretty strong lol father

I personally like this Channel more than the strictly Naruto one

Dear lord you speak fast I just got off from work and.. That's too much

I’d want the most versatile form of alchemy

I mean, fire alchemy is the goat. It's stated in the story itself and the feats are there (mustang destroying stones)

Wellll what about when Roy gloves got wet🤷🏾‍♂️