The Best Episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist

Now an official State Alchemist, Ed takes a closer look at Tucker's chimera experiments and begins to realize there's something very wrong going on.

Director: Kenji Yasuda

Writer: Sho Aikawa

Edward and Alphonse struggle over whether they should reveal the truth behind Cornello's miracles -- and possibly ruin the townspeople's lives.

Director: Kenji Yasuda

Writer: Sho Aikawa

A young Ed and Al are determined to bring back their dead mother, who was their pillar of strength during dreary times of war.

Director: Shingo Kaneko

Writer: N/A

When Edward and Alphonse meet a so-called religious leader who can invoke miracles, they believe he's carrying the philosopher's stone.

Director: Seiji Mizushima, Kazuki Tsunoda

Writer: Sho Aikawa

Several malfunctions in their armor impede Ed and Al as they face off against some tortured souls bound to empty suits.

Director: Tomoki Kyoda

Writer: N/A

Ed and Al hop aboard a train to Central City and quickly find themselves defending the passengers -- including Gen. Hakuro -- from terrorists.

Director: Shigeru Ueda

Writer: Aya Yoshinaga

A disenchanted Ed resigns from his position as State Alchemist, and when Winry arrives in town, she may be the serial killer's next victim.

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Writer: N/A

Ed and Al go on assignment to inspect a small mining colony and discover its inhabitants are being heavily taxed by a tyrant and his Alchemist.

Director: Atsushi Otsuki

Writer: Katsuhiko Takayama

When Ed and Al take Winry on a quest to tail Scar and learn more about the Stone, they discover a connection between Lab 5 and the war in Ishbal.

Director: Seiji Mizushima

Writer: N/A

With Ed busy aiding the people of Liore, Scar is the only one who can help Alphonse when his armor begins transforming into an explosive compound.

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Writer: N/A

Once in Central City, Ed and Al move into the vast mansion of sewing-life alchemist Shou Tucker and begin to prepare for the Alchemy Exam.

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Writer: N/A

As the Strong Arm Alchemist defends them from the surrounding chaos, Marcoh reveals to the Elrics the vast atrocities of the Ishbal Massacre.

Director: Kenji Yasuda

Writer: Sho Aikawa

Barry sets off a series of explosions that inadvertently free Greed and the other prisoners. Tucker returns from the dead in a surprising new form.

Director: Tomoki Kyoda

Writer: N/A

Ed and Al head to Xenotime in hopes of finding the Philosopher's Stone, but they find only two boys creating a strange red water.

Director: Kazuki Kakuta

Writer: Natsuko Takahashi

As Ed, Al and Winry arrive in Rush Valley to retrieve automail, Mustang figures that a high-ranking officer must be responsible for Hughes' death.

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Writer: N/A

Edward and Alphonse discover that the young boy on Yock Island is, all at once, an alchemist, a homunculus and able to transmute his own body.

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Writer: N/A

As the military captures the mysterious Yock Island boy and imprisons him in South Headquarters, Yoki spots Scar among a group of Ishbalans.

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Writer: N/A

With Ed, Izumi and Sig in his custody, Lt. Col. Archer reinstates Shou Tucker as State Alchemist and orders his men to hunt down Greed.

Director: Jun Fukuda

Writer: N/A

After Lust and Gluttony drop in on Edward's confrontation with Scar in Liore, the seventh and final homunculus is finally revealed.

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With the help of Rose, the Holy Mother, Scar instructs the inhabitants of Liore not to provoke violence as they lure the military into town.

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While the Elric Brothers flee Liore, Winry meets a complete stranger in Resembool who is later introduced to her as Ed and Al's father.

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Writer: N/A

As the Elrics' father, Hohenhelm of Light, sets out to confront the leader of the Homunculi, Lyra and Rose find a secret stairway in an old church.

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Writer: N/A

A complex and entangled history reveals itself as Van Hohenheim of Light battles Dante, the leader of the Homunculi.

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Writer: N/A

The brothers are in danger when they become separated. Ed returns to Dante's mansion to look for clues. Al meets with the deranged Shou Tucker.

Director: Shigeru Ueda

Writer: N/A

Wrath believes that Sloth is his real mother. Sloth battles Shou Tucker. Ed realizes that Al has been tricked by Tucker.

Director: Shingo Kaneko

Writer: Sho Aikawa