Two young brothers are raised as alchemists, but when they are severely injured trying to perform a forbidden act, they begin searching for the one thing that can save them; the fabled philosopher's stone.
#1 | 10/04/2003Those Who Challenge the Sun3.4/5 (with 16 votes)
When Edward and Alphonse meet a so-called religious leader who can invoke miracles, they believe he's carrying the philosopher's stone.
#2 | 10/11/2003Body of the Sanctioned3.6/5 (with 10 votes)
Edward and Alphonse struggle over whether they should reveal the truth behind Cornello's miracles -- and possibly ruin the townspeople's lives.
#3 | 10/18/2003Mother3.6/5 (with 10 votes)
A young Ed and Al are determined to bring back their dead mother, who was their pillar of strength during dreary times of war.
#4 | 10/25/2003A Forger's Love3.2/5 (with 9 votes)
While on their way to seek out an important man from their childhood, Ed and Al come across a town haunted by a ghostly woman.
#5 | 11/01/2003The Man with the Mechanical Arm3.3/5 (with 8 votes)
Ed and Al hop aboard a train to Central City and quickly find themselves defending the passengers -- including Gen. Hakuro -- from terrorists.
#6 | 11/08/2003The Alchemy Exam3.3/5 (with 8 votes)
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.
#7 | 11/15/2003Night of the Chimera's Cry3.6/5 (with 8 votes)
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.
#8 | 11/22/2003The Philosopher's Stone3.3/5 (with 8 votes)
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.
#9 | 11/29/2003Be Thou for the People3.3/5 (with 8 votes)
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.
#10 | 12/06/2003The Phantom Thief3.1/5 (with 8 votes)
While trying to avoid their meeting with Mustang, Ed and Al end up in a small town and become embroiled in a manhunt for a female Robin Hood.
#11 | 12/13/2003The Other Brothers Elric (1)3.2/5 (with 7 votes)
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.
#12 | 12/20/2003The Other Brothers Elric (2)3.2/5 (with 7 votes)
Ed and Al uncover a conspiracy involving the Tringham Brothers' father, his involvement with the red water and the disease that's stricken Xenotime.
#13 | 12/27/2003Fullmetal vs. Flame3.1/5 (with 7 votes)
Ed reports back to Mustang in East City, where discussion of Doctor Marcoh and the Philosopher's Stone leads to a duel between Ed and the colonel.
#14 | 01/10/2004Destruction's Right Hand2.9/5 (with 6 votes)
While the shape-shifting Envy disguises himself as Cornello, Ed and Al find Marcoh and learn about the Stone's involvement in the Ishbal Rebellion.
#15 | 01/17/2004The Ishbal Massacre3.3/5 (with 6 votes)
As the Strong Arm Alchemist defends them from the surrounding chaos, Marcoh reveals to the Elrics the vast atrocities of the Ishbal Massacre.
#16 | 01/24/2004That Which Is Lost3.2/5 (with 6 votes)
As Marcoh faces a deadly encounter with Lust, Armstrong and the Elrics flee to Resembool. Ed is sent into a rage when they lose Al in the process.
#17 | 01/31/2004House of the Waiting Family3.1/5 (with 6 votes)
While resting and receiving repairs back in Resembool, Ed visits his mother's grave and Al reveals his concerns about his fading memories.
#18 | 02/07/2004Marcoh's Notes2.9/5 (with 6 votes)
Ed and Al are forced to go in search of another source for Marcoh's book after Lust, Gluttony and Scar burn the First Branch Library to the ground.
#19 | 02/14/2004The Truth Behind Truths3.0/5 (with 6 votes)
Ed and Al are horrified when they learn what the key ingredient in making a Philosopher's Stone is, but they forge ahead to explore an abandoned lab.
#20 | 02/21/2004Soul of the Guardian3.4/5 (with 6 votes)
Several malfunctions in their armor impede Ed and Al as they face off against some tortured souls bound to empty suits.
#21 | 02/28/2004The Red Glow3.3/5 (with 6 votes)
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.
#22 | 03/06/2004Created Human3.2/5 (with 6 votes)
As Envy, in the form of Basque Grand, gathers the human ingredients to form the Stone, Maes Hughes sets out to rescue the Elrics from Laboratory 5.
#23 | 03/13/2004Fullmetal Heart3.1/5 (with 6 votes)
Edward upsets Winry with his refusal to talk, and Alphonse decides to confront Edward with his questions about artificial souls.
#24 | 03/20/2004Bonding Memories3.0/5 (with 7 votes)
Alphonse runs off and comes face to face with Scar, who's been hiding out among the mercenary-plagued refugees of Ishbal.
#25 | 03/27/2004Words of Farewell3.3/5 (with 7 votes)
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.
#26 | 04/03/2004Her Reason3.2/5 (with 7 votes)
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.
#27 | 04/10/2004Teacher3.2/5 (with 6 votes)
Edward and Alphonse fear for their lives when they come face to face with Izumi Curtis, their former teacher, who brings them back to Dublith.
#28 | 04/17/2004All is One, One is All3.1/5 (with 6 votes)
In order to teach them a life lesson and give them time to reflect, Izumi leaves Ed and Al on Yock Island -- the place where she first found them.
#29 | 04/24/2004The Untainted Child3.2/5 (with 5 votes)
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.
#30 | 05/01/2004Assault on South Headquarters3.2/5 (with 5 votes)
As the military captures the mysterious Yock Island boy and imprisons him in South Headquarters, Yoki spots Scar among a group of Ishbalans.
#31 | 05/08/2004Sin3.1/5 (with 5 votes)
Envy disguises herself as Bradley and plucks the homunculus child from Izumi. Meanwhile, the boy remembers his past after he eats Stone fragments.
#32 | 05/15/2004Dante of the Deep Forest3.1/5 (with 5 votes)
Izumi drops in on Ed and Al's fight with Wrath, a new homunculus who seeks the rest of Edward's body in order to make himself human.
#33 | 05/29/2004Al, Captured3.0/5 (with 5 votes)
When Martel takes over Al's armor and brings him to Greed's headquarters, it's up to Izumi and Edward to come to the rescue
#34 | 06/05/2004Theory of Avarice3.2/5 (with 5 votes)
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.
#35 | 06/12/2004Reunion of the Fallen2.8/5 (with 5 votes)
As Edward and Alphonse head out to the Ishbal camp with Winry, Lust is sitting down at a restaurant when a man from her past enters the room.
#36 | 06/19/2004The Sinner Within3.1/5 (with 5 votes)
Ed and Alphonse hope to learn more about the Philosopher's Stone when they lend a hand to a group of Ishbalan refugees being shipped further south.
#37 | 06/26/2004The Flame Alchemist, The Bachelor Lieutenant & The Mystery of Warehouse 133.0/5 (with 5 votes)
While he investigates Mustang, Lt. Havoc orders his man Falman to find him a girlfriend. Later, Mustang must investigate the haunted Warehouse 13.
#38 | 07/03/2004With the River's Flow3.0/5 (with 5 votes)
After an argument splits up Ed, Al and Winry, Al bumps into a familiar face, and Winry decides to investigate Hughes' murder with Sheska.
#39 | 07/10/2004Secret of Ishbal3.1/5 (with 5 votes)
Kimblee is named State Alchemist and heads out with the troops to Liore, where Scar is gouging out the earth with a large stone.
#40 | 07/17/2004The Scar3.2/5 (with 5 votes)
After Lust and Gluttony drop in on Edward's confrontation with Scar in Liore, the seventh and final homunculus is finally revealed.
#41 | 07/24/2004Holy Mother3.2/5 (with 5 votes)
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.
#42 | 07/24/2004His Name Is Unknown3.3/5 (with 5 votes)
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.
#43 | 07/31/2004The Stray Dog3.2/5 (with 5 votes)
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.
#44 | 08/07/2004Hohenheim of Light3.2/5 (with 5 votes)
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.
#45 | 08/21/2004A Rotted Heart3.2/5 (with 5 votes)
A complex and entangled history reveals itself as Van Hohenheim of Light battles Dante, the leader of the Homunculi.
#46 | 08/28/2004Human Transmutation3.2/5 (with 5 votes)
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.
#47 | 09/04/2004Sealing the Homunculus3.2/5 (with 5 votes)
Wrath believes that Sloth is his real mother. Sloth battles Shou Tucker. Ed realizes that Al has been tricked by Tucker.
#48 | 09/11/2004Goodbye3.2/5 (with 5 votes)
Armstrong declares an uprising against the Führer on the northern border while Ed, joined by Izumi, fights the remaining Homunculi in Central.
#49 | 09/18/2004The Other Side of the Gate3.1/5 (with 5 votes)
King Bradley comes home to give his son a birthday gift. Edward meets with Russell in an abandoned church. Maria and Denny arrive to support Izumi.
#50 | 09/25/2004Death3.2/5 (with 5 votes)
Edward Elric arrives in World War I after being pulled through the Gate. Roy Mustang confronts his enemy, Homunculus Pride.
#51 | 10/02/2004Laws and Promises3.2/5 (with 5 votes)
Edward Elric realizes he must make the ultimate sacrifice if he wants to retrieve his brother from the Gate. Hawkeye breaks free from her captors.
#52 | 10/09/2004Episode 52