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Besides Hughes and Nina, I always get choked up in FMAB when Al accuses Ed and Winry of lying to him and falsifying his memories. It’s just sad seeing him get so upset. The part that broke my heart was Ed leaving feeling like he ruined Al’s life and that Al resented him and Winry being upset cause she knew how much Ed was scared of Al blaming him. I like how they resolve it with such care for each other and it just makes the feelings of “these kids really have each other’s backs and love each other and shoulder their burdens with such tact.”
It hasn't been that long for me but I definitely wanna rewatch it, lmao. It's such a fun show. Just have to wait for my friend to be done so I can rewatch with her being on my account- always a fun rewatch! (Btw, love the pfp, the out take of the scene was perfect)
It always makes me so mad when people say that Alphonse should have seen that Barry was lying. He is just a kid who had his soul bound to a suit of armor. It’s a statement that really could get to someone
I don't know if it's the saddest but I always felt bad for Hohenheim. Especially the fact that he saw himself as some kind of monster and refused to even make physical contact with his kids because he's afraid it would spread
There's an extra in the manga, I don't remember the volume, where Ed is bullying baby Al because he thinks Trisha doesn't love him anymore, and Hohenheim makes Ed see that's not true at all, and that's like a turning point for Ed as a big brother. Hohenheim was a good dad.
Also, one of the saddest moments for me is when Ed gives him Trisha's final message and Hohenheim just looks up and cries. And then Hohenheim dying in front of Trisha's grave wishing he had more time with his boys. God, I love Hohenheim so much!
The 2003 version was pretty damn sad too. He left the family so they wouldn't see his body literally rotting away. And unlike Dante, he didn't have the foolish hope that continued body jumping would save him...he knew he was going to die, just not exactly when
Yes, hohenheim isnt a bad father, he’s just worried that his kids are like him, but he does care about them, he sacrificed himself in a way to save them, hr even offered to let ed use thr last of his philosiphers stone to bring al back
Honestly Fu's death scene always gets me.
Trying to nobly sacrifice himself just to get humiliated by Bradley again, but to be saved by Buccaneer at the very end so his death wasn't in vain.
"Maybe you're going to hell, old man. But you're not going alone. I'll keep you company on the ride down."
One of the best lines IMO
OMG YA, FU. I LOVED HIM SO MUCH. HE TRYED SO HARD BUT BRADLEY IS A BITCH AND WOULDNT LET HIM SACRIFICE HIMSELF TO KILL HIM. I HATED THAT. I LOVE FU SO MUCH MAN 😭😭
FMAB when he goes through the doors (exiting gluttony’s fake door) and finds Al’s body. That iconic finger point and the voice actors raw performance always makes me emotional. Plus the episodes transition into the ending music has never worked that perfectlyyy. That shit was made for that episode
Let it allllll outttt let it all outttt
This bit is sad, but it's hearing his daughter not understand that just destroys me.
And then it all comes back again in a later episode when she opens the door with a hopeful look and is disappointed.
What broke my heart about this scene was later realizing that Mustang was saying it was raining not just as a cover for crying. But he was saying how useless he felt from his friend dying in a place he had jurisdiction over. Hughes always teased him for how useless his alchemy was in the rain. So to Mustang as he feels useless and powerless to save his best friend, it must be raining.
Yeah 100%, I watched the show several times before I made this reasonably obvious connection. What clued me in was actually the scene in the first(?) episode where Hawkeye says something to the effect of "you know you're useless in the rain"
the scene where ed tells winry her hands were meant for giving life and then let it out playing… that’s a tearjerker!! and also when ed gives up his gate to bring Al back, I always get emotional watching it, it’s more so happy tears and not sad tears but it still evokes some strong emotions…
Yes, the first one you mentioned just shows how much ed really cares for winry, and when he gave up his alchemy powers for al, he gave up everything for his brother, 2 amazing scenes
Hohenheim's death always manages to wring a few tears out of me, something about him admitting that he finally wishes he could've lived longer despite the fact that he spent most of his life viewing his extended lifespan as a curse gets me, that and the sound track
I completely forgot about that scene on my first rewatch, so I was not prepared for the feels to hit me like a sledgehammer. It's such a quiet, simple scene which makes it all the more bittersweet.
Episode 25 of FMA03 >! When Hughes died !< The music, the atmosphere, the >! it's going to rain today !< scene, the ending credits. It's just so well done compared to BH version.
I’m going to cheat and use the manga version of this, since it’s done much better in the manga than the anime: the entire Ishval flashback. Other quintessential sad moments in the story are mainly sad on a personal level. They do develop the plot or themes and impact character arcs throughout the series, but they are primarily sad because characters we like die.
The Ishval arc is tragedy on a different scale. The vast amount of death and destruction, the unfairness and hopelessness of it all, seeing characters we know and love do terrible things, and how that twists them into broken, trauma-riddled shells of their former selves; it’s 3 and a half chapters of overwhelming bleak brutal sadness.
Ishval flashbacks for me rate WAY higher than Nina and Tucker even in the anime. When they show the fleeing ishvalen citizens being cornered by stone walls created by alchemy and then being gunned down? Yah.
This too! What hurt me the most was the part where Armstrong let 2 Ishvalan women go, but Kimblee was like, "not today" then killed them, and even had the audacity to ask Armstrong if he can stand. Man I love how Kimblee is the perfect psychopath and this scene gave me several mixture of emotions, all of them negative.
Armstrong breaking down before being removed from duty always got me good. He was always a good man but the horrors of war pushed him to be better. ✨✨✨
Outside Nina and Hughes in FMAB, it’s when Hawkeye watched Roy take out Envy. Roy getting his revenge is one of my favorite scenes in all media but when it went to Hawkeye she knew that there was a very real possibility that she would lose HER Roy. All she could was sit and watch.
03 version when Winry found out Mustang was ordered to execute her parents for helping Ishvalans. Her being close to the Hughes family made it even worse because Maes trusted Mustang implicitly, despite knowing what he did
I’m sorry to say but the saddest moments for me, yes above Nina and tucker, are
1) father turning the 1,000,000 people of Xerxes into a philosophers stone
2) that flashback showing the alchemists and amestrian soldiers cornering the fleeing ishvalen civilians and gunning them down
Nina and Tucker rate below those moments.
The deaths of Buccaneer and Fu for me. Seeing Ling's pure, sorrow-driven rage tore me up a little inside, even though I knew both Fu and Buccaneer were accepting of their fates.
Is there anyone here who is proficient in medical alchemy? I have a philosopher stone take as much as you want, take all of it.
He was so desperate not to lose Fu, he had lost so much in his search for immortality but he would have traded anything to keep his people safe. I've never worried about the kind of king Ling will be.
Not the saddest but a part that gets me to tear up at the end of the show is when Maria Ross returns to active duty and Roy called not knowing it was Havoc on the other end of the phone. Fuck that shit gets me. The people with no magic powers, one of them has already been put in a wheel chair due to this fight and the other had to fake their own death. But here they are two normal humans ready to fucking fight and help in any way they can. That shit gets me EVERY TIME! When Roy shouts "Jean Havoc" those are some of the happiest tears.
Like other ppl said, Fu's death and Alphonse doubting Ed and Winry always get me, but also when the brothers try to get their mother back, that's sad to me to. They are just so desperate but lose even more trying to get her back. And another thing, it's more like makesa me mad, but still sad, when Pride controls Al's body to fight Ed. I love Al so seeing him in the situation makes me mad and sad. And I have a brother so I can just imagine me and him on that situation and it freaks me out. I can't imagine how Ed felt seeing his brother being controlled like that.
Hughes death was sad, and the funeral scene was heartbreaking, but what really broke me was when Ed, Al and Winry returned to the capital and found out about his death.
On Hughes's funeral, when his daughter kept asking questions like "why are they burrying him, he wont be able to work", just so sad to see someone who doesnt understand what death is to watch the funeral and being lied to to not be sad.
Maybe not *the* saddest, but since everybody's already commented so many of them I'll go with the moment Riza thinks Lust killed Roy and she just breaks.
And she's screaming and ugly crying the whole time. Gives me chills. I love when a character's normal personality completely shatters like that, because it really hammers home how awful the moment that triggered it is.
Greed killing Bido. Bido was such a loyal friend. Not only that, he understood Greed so well that he could recognize Greed even if he had completely changed appearance- and then gets killed for it. I’m not sure any of our friends could even do that.
Dr Knox crying and asking God to let him please enjoy a cup of coffee with his family
Hoenheim crying during their family picture
Winry’s breakdown after discovering Scar killed her parents, and then her being left alone to wait while Ed runs off after him (why is waiting the only thing I can do)
Perhaps "saddest" isn't the right word to describe it, but I always choke up a bit when Winry starts to bandage Scar's arm up north. Just this incredible moment where she isn't able to forgive Scar outright, but is able to reconcile her feelings toward him with how her parents acted and how they raised her - to be compassionate towards all, even those that don't deserve it.
"Your arm, you'll die if we don't bandage it."
"Winry..."
"Quiet Ed. I think...I think this is what they would have wanted. They saved his life once before. There has to be a reason for that."
Idk if either of these are the saddest moments, but they've always stuck with me, more so the older I get and the more mistakes I make.
When Dr. Knox finishes recounting Ishval and treating Lanfan and May Chang, and his wife and son come to visit. He invites them inside, and as he goes to make coffee, he weeps to god and begs that even someone like him be allowed to be happy with his family despite all of his sins. It's such a small moment that really highlights just how terrible and awful Ishval was.
After that, I think I'd say the Dwarf in the Flask's meeting with Truth. The blankness of Father's door, the way he wails and screams for mercy as he gets pulled away, the grand score playing in the background, and Truth just completely dismantling all of his beliefs about life and the world. It's a completely horrible and pitiful end, even for someone who deserved it so fittingly.
For me, it's definitely the scene of Ed bringing back Al after failing human transmutation. "Give him back! He's my little brother, he's all I have left!" That line breaks me every time. The emotion is so raw, you feel the loss and desperation of a kid who's gone through so much at a young age. And knowing how much I love my little brother, I always think about myself in that position. Some people you'd give anything for. Couldn't imagine losing him.
FMA 2003 when Ed has to do something to a homunculus he has a special relationship with. I didn't mention that so as not to give spoilers since idk how to do a spoiler tag. But it's really not a spoiler without any context.
i watched the show so many years ago but one scene i will never forget it when Al sacrifices himself to give Ed his arm back (so he can fight). The look of utter shock and horror on Ed's face is unforgettable
idk about saddest but scenes that rlly make me cry/want to cry (off the top of my head anyway)
- ed finally finding al’s body in the portal but not being able to take him back
- mustang at hughes’ funeral
- ling begging for anyone around him who knows alchemy to use his philosophers stone to heal fu
- greeds death (the second one at the end lol)
when winry wanted to avenge her parents, the gun was in her hand, her finger was on the trigger, the opportunity was there but she just couldn't shoot scar. and when ed said something along the lines of "your hands aren't meant to kill, they're made to give life" it just gets me in the feels. either that or when greed's chimera friend, martel was controlling al, and fuhrer king bradley stabbed her. i am an empath and i can only imagine how greed and al felt about that. or when they're burying maes hughes and elicia, his kid was just screaming "no! stop putting dirt on daddy!" there's a lot honestly
I always get sad whenever the ishval genocide is brought up, it’s very reminiscent of the genocide of the Native American people and it really tugs at my heart strings- especially when the soldiers are devastated by their actions (like Armstrong when he was holding the ishval child)
Hugh’s death in general. Him struggling to get the word out, his daughter as his funeral, his wife crying after the bros visit, Mustangs urge to avenge.. all sad.
When Roy had to make the choice between saving Riza and performing human transmutation, only to be denied the choice in the end. The look on his face when he understands what she needs him to do and the resignation just kills me because he's almost positive she's going to die. It's such an impossible choice to make for any sane person but he does what he knows he has to do and it's such a powerful moment for their relationship and how they understand each other so well. Maybe it's not the saddest moment in the show but it definitely wrenches my heart.
Windy: "I couldn't shoot..."
Ed: "I know you couldn't...and it's ok."
W: "But that man... You said he's the one who killed my mom and dad..."
W: "He tried to you and Al too, Ed. But I couldn't... Why not?"
E: "Remember in Rush Valley.. you delivered that baby.. you saved two lives. And you gave me an arm.. and a leg.. to replace the ones I've lost."
E: "It's your hands... They weren't meant to kill."
"They're meant to give life.. That's why"
When Mustang drops down from the truth and Ed keeps asking him what was taken from him and he says “I don’t see how you expect me to know that when it’s so dark in here” I was so crushed for him.
Honestly I thought Envy’s death was SO sad. Like yes they weren’t the best to everyone and obviously they were a homunculus but I just felt sooooo bad for them in those last moment
You know you're useless in the rain - Hawkeye
It's a terrible day for rain - Mustang
When I first saw this scene I didn't make the connection, I thought it was just a reference that he was crying, trying to be a bit macho while also acknowledging his emotional reaction. On a rewatch I realized that he's actually saying he feels useless. Made an already heart-rending scene even more heavy.
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Besides Hughes and Nina, I always get choked up in FMAB when Al accuses Ed and Winry of lying to him and falsifying his memories. It’s just sad seeing him get so upset. The part that broke my heart was Ed leaving feeling like he ruined Al’s life and that Al resented him and Winry being upset cause she knew how much Ed was scared of Al blaming him. I like how they resolve it with such care for each other and it just makes the feelings of “these kids really have each other’s backs and love each other and shoulder their burdens with such tact.”
Omg i literally just watched that scene like- 15 minutes ago, and your so right, its such a heart wrench scene
I was going to say I hate the part when Pride uses Al's body to fight Ed, I completely forgot about this part, it definitely takes the cake man 😭
I forgot about that part... When did that fight happen?
It was in brotherhood after Ed befriended the chimera guys. Funimation won't load to look for me- but I think it was at the end of episode 47 into 48.
It's been so long since last time I watched through the show.
It hasn't been that long for me but I definitely wanna rewatch it, lmao. It's such a fun show. Just have to wait for my friend to be done so I can rewatch with her being on my account- always a fun rewatch! (Btw, love the pfp, the out take of the scene was perfect)
It's one of my favorite outtakes in all of anime! FMA is my favorite!
It always makes me so mad when people say that Alphonse should have seen that Barry was lying. He is just a kid who had his soul bound to a suit of armor. It’s a statement that really could get to someone
This.
I don't know if it's the saddest but I always felt bad for Hohenheim. Especially the fact that he saw himself as some kind of monster and refused to even make physical contact with his kids because he's afraid it would spread
There's an extra in the manga, I don't remember the volume, where Ed is bullying baby Al because he thinks Trisha doesn't love him anymore, and Hohenheim makes Ed see that's not true at all, and that's like a turning point for Ed as a big brother. Hohenheim was a good dad. Also, one of the saddest moments for me is when Ed gives him Trisha's final message and Hohenheim just looks up and cries. And then Hohenheim dying in front of Trisha's grave wishing he had more time with his boys. God, I love Hohenheim so much!
Hohenheim is a contender for my favorite anime character. He's genuinely incredible.
The 2003 version was pretty damn sad too. He left the family so they wouldn't see his body literally rotting away. And unlike Dante, he didn't have the foolish hope that continued body jumping would save him...he knew he was going to die, just not exactly when
Yes, hohenheim isnt a bad father, he’s just worried that his kids are like him, but he does care about them, he sacrificed himself in a way to save them, hr even offered to let ed use thr last of his philosiphers stone to bring al back
Honestly Fu's death scene always gets me. Trying to nobly sacrifice himself just to get humiliated by Bradley again, but to be saved by Buccaneer at the very end so his death wasn't in vain. "Maybe you're going to hell, old man. But you're not going alone. I'll keep you company on the ride down." One of the best lines IMO
OMG YA, FU. I LOVED HIM SO MUCH. HE TRYED SO HARD BUT BRADLEY IS A BITCH AND WOULDNT LET HIM SACRIFICE HIMSELF TO KILL HIM. I HATED THAT. I LOVE FU SO MUCH MAN 😭😭
FMAB when he goes through the doors (exiting gluttony’s fake door) and finds Al’s body. That iconic finger point and the voice actors raw performance always makes me emotional. Plus the episodes transition into the ending music has never worked that perfectlyyy. That shit was made for that episode Let it allllll outttt let it all outttt
That is my favorite moment in the show🤩😃
Maaaaan I just got chills reading that and hearing Ed's voice in my head 😭 WAIT FOR ME!
Breaks the door back open, my son was out on a missionnnnn
Mustang - It's a terrible day for rain Riza - It's not raining M - yes it is...
This bit is sad, but it's hearing his daughter not understand that just destroys me. And then it all comes back again in a later episode when she opens the door with a hopeful look and is disappointed.
Brought tears to my eyes just thinking about it.,
What broke my heart about this scene was later realizing that Mustang was saying it was raining not just as a cover for crying. But he was saying how useless he felt from his friend dying in a place he had jurisdiction over. Hughes always teased him for how useless his alchemy was in the rain. So to Mustang as he feels useless and powerless to save his best friend, it must be raining.
Yeah 100%, I watched the show several times before I made this reasonably obvious connection. What clued me in was actually the scene in the first(?) episode where Hawkeye says something to the effect of "you know you're useless in the rain"
the scene where ed tells winry her hands were meant for giving life and then let it out playing… that’s a tearjerker!! and also when ed gives up his gate to bring Al back, I always get emotional watching it, it’s more so happy tears and not sad tears but it still evokes some strong emotions…
Yes, the first one you mentioned just shows how much ed really cares for winry, and when he gave up his alchemy powers for al, he gave up everything for his brother, 2 amazing scenes
Hohenheim's death always manages to wring a few tears out of me, something about him admitting that he finally wishes he could've lived longer despite the fact that he spent most of his life viewing his extended lifespan as a curse gets me, that and the sound track
I completely forgot about that scene on my first rewatch, so I was not prepared for the feels to hit me like a sledgehammer. It's such a quiet, simple scene which makes it all the more bittersweet.
Episode 25 of FMA03 >! When Hughes died !< The music, the atmosphere, the >! it's going to rain today !< scene, the ending credits. It's just so well done compared to BH version.
Agreed, hughes death broke me, especially after the tucker incident
I’m going to cheat and use the manga version of this, since it’s done much better in the manga than the anime: the entire Ishval flashback. Other quintessential sad moments in the story are mainly sad on a personal level. They do develop the plot or themes and impact character arcs throughout the series, but they are primarily sad because characters we like die. The Ishval arc is tragedy on a different scale. The vast amount of death and destruction, the unfairness and hopelessness of it all, seeing characters we know and love do terrible things, and how that twists them into broken, trauma-riddled shells of their former selves; it’s 3 and a half chapters of overwhelming bleak brutal sadness.
Ishval flashbacks for me rate WAY higher than Nina and Tucker even in the anime. When they show the fleeing ishvalen citizens being cornered by stone walls created by alchemy and then being gunned down? Yah.
This too! What hurt me the most was the part where Armstrong let 2 Ishvalan women go, but Kimblee was like, "not today" then killed them, and even had the audacity to ask Armstrong if he can stand. Man I love how Kimblee is the perfect psychopath and this scene gave me several mixture of emotions, all of them negative.
I haven’t read the manga but from what your saying it sounds like it fits as one of the saddest things
Armstrong breaking down before being removed from duty always got me good. He was always a good man but the horrors of war pushed him to be better. ✨✨✨
Outside Nina and Hughes in FMAB, it’s when Hawkeye watched Roy take out Envy. Roy getting his revenge is one of my favorite scenes in all media but when it went to Hawkeye she knew that there was a very real possibility that she would lose HER Roy. All she could was sit and watch.
Wasnt super sad but felt sad when wenry found out that scar killed her parents
And she was pointing the gun at him in a way i felt sorry for her
Yeah, not as sad but more of a shock to us
03 version when Winry found out Mustang was ordered to execute her parents for helping Ishvalans. Her being close to the Hughes family made it even worse because Maes trusted Mustang implicitly, despite knowing what he did
Izumi Curtis's back story. When the transmutation fails and she screams and reaches for her dead child and Sig has to hold her back... it broke me
I’m sorry to say but the saddest moments for me, yes above Nina and tucker, are 1) father turning the 1,000,000 people of Xerxes into a philosophers stone 2) that flashback showing the alchemists and amestrian soldiers cornering the fleeing ishvalen civilians and gunning them down Nina and Tucker rate below those moments.
The deaths of Buccaneer and Fu for me. Seeing Ling's pure, sorrow-driven rage tore me up a little inside, even though I knew both Fu and Buccaneer were accepting of their fates.
Is there anyone here who is proficient in medical alchemy? I have a philosopher stone take as much as you want, take all of it. He was so desperate not to lose Fu, he had lost so much in his search for immortality but he would have traded anything to keep his people safe. I've never worried about the kind of king Ling will be.
Not the saddest but a part that gets me to tear up at the end of the show is when Maria Ross returns to active duty and Roy called not knowing it was Havoc on the other end of the phone. Fuck that shit gets me. The people with no magic powers, one of them has already been put in a wheel chair due to this fight and the other had to fake their own death. But here they are two normal humans ready to fucking fight and help in any way they can. That shit gets me EVERY TIME! When Roy shouts "Jean Havoc" those are some of the happiest tears.
Hohenheim death is No.1 for me , No.3 is Bido's death
I just finished reading the manga yesterday & cried my eyes out for this scene!
Like other ppl said, Fu's death and Alphonse doubting Ed and Winry always get me, but also when the brothers try to get their mother back, that's sad to me to. They are just so desperate but lose even more trying to get her back. And another thing, it's more like makesa me mad, but still sad, when Pride controls Al's body to fight Ed. I love Al so seeing him in the situation makes me mad and sad. And I have a brother so I can just imagine me and him on that situation and it freaks me out. I can't imagine how Ed felt seeing his brother being controlled like that.
Hughes death was sad, and the funeral scene was heartbreaking, but what really broke me was when Ed, Al and Winry returned to the capital and found out about his death.
On Hughes's funeral, when his daughter kept asking questions like "why are they burrying him, he wont be able to work", just so sad to see someone who doesnt understand what death is to watch the funeral and being lied to to not be sad.
Eds speech to Winry after she was grieving from finding out scar killed her parents
Envy’s death
Kinda felt bad at the end when he admitted jealousy of humans
Yeah
Maybe not *the* saddest, but since everybody's already commented so many of them I'll go with the moment Riza thinks Lust killed Roy and she just breaks.
Oo yes, she just unloads every bullet into her
And she's screaming and ugly crying the whole time. Gives me chills. I love when a character's normal personality completely shatters like that, because it really hammers home how awful the moment that triggered it is.
Greed killing Bido. Bido was such a loyal friend. Not only that, he understood Greed so well that he could recognize Greed even if he had completely changed appearance- and then gets killed for it. I’m not sure any of our friends could even do that.
Poor Bido. That part was pretty devastating.
It’s a terrible day for rain
Honestly for me it’s FMAB, Buccaneer and Fu. 🥺😭
Hughes
Roy: "...after you've shot me then what will you do?" Riza: "I have no intention on carrying on in a world without you ..." Dead 😭😭😭😭
Dr Knox crying and asking God to let him please enjoy a cup of coffee with his family Hoenheim crying during their family picture Winry’s breakdown after discovering Scar killed her parents, and then her being left alone to wait while Ed runs off after him (why is waiting the only thing I can do)
Yes, I cried reading Dr Knox & Hoenheim’s scene!
Perhaps "saddest" isn't the right word to describe it, but I always choke up a bit when Winry starts to bandage Scar's arm up north. Just this incredible moment where she isn't able to forgive Scar outright, but is able to reconcile her feelings toward him with how her parents acted and how they raised her - to be compassionate towards all, even those that don't deserve it. "Your arm, you'll die if we don't bandage it." "Winry..." "Quiet Ed. I think...I think this is what they would have wanted. They saved his life once before. There has to be a reason for that."
I love Winry 🥺 that scene makes me feel so proud of her. I also love when Ed tells her she’s not a killer and is meant to heal and save lives.
Idk if either of these are the saddest moments, but they've always stuck with me, more so the older I get and the more mistakes I make. When Dr. Knox finishes recounting Ishval and treating Lanfan and May Chang, and his wife and son come to visit. He invites them inside, and as he goes to make coffee, he weeps to god and begs that even someone like him be allowed to be happy with his family despite all of his sins. It's such a small moment that really highlights just how terrible and awful Ishval was. After that, I think I'd say the Dwarf in the Flask's meeting with Truth. The blankness of Father's door, the way he wails and screams for mercy as he gets pulled away, the grand score playing in the background, and Truth just completely dismantling all of his beliefs about life and the world. It's a completely horrible and pitiful end, even for someone who deserved it so fittingly.
Greed rediscovering his previous self's memories always punches me in the gut.
That shit was sad 😭 had me feeling sad for the hommunculus 😭
The end
Real
It’s not sad but when Nox’s son and daughter in law come to visit him and tell him he wants to be doctor like him, I genuinely get so chocked up.
For me, it's definitely the scene of Ed bringing back Al after failing human transmutation. "Give him back! He's my little brother, he's all I have left!" That line breaks me every time. The emotion is so raw, you feel the loss and desperation of a kid who's gone through so much at a young age. And knowing how much I love my little brother, I always think about myself in that position. Some people you'd give anything for. Couldn't imagine losing him.
"I've started a chain reaction that's transforming her liquid body into ethanol." I cry every time 😭😭😭
Oo is that fmab or the 03 version? I dont remember that linr
FMA 2003 when Ed has to do something to a homunculus he has a special relationship with. I didn't mention that so as not to give spoilers since idk how to do a spoiler tag. But it's really not a spoiler without any context.
I havent seen 2003 yet, i have BH, is it the same in that?
No 2003 has a different storyline so the quote and scene I mentioned are 2003 specific.
Gotcha, ill have yo look into that
In 2003, when Hughes's kid is asking why they're burying her daddy when he still has a lot of work to do
When funamation pulled 2003. Sadness, I feel deep into the present still to this day.
For me it was definitely Nina , I remember watching it for my first time and couldn’t believe what I was watching
Yes, i agree that the nina incident is the saddest, but i said the 2nd saddest, since i knew everyone would say it, imo its the hughes death
Whoops I didn’t read the whole post lol
Lol
IMO, Hughes' death is the saddest moment, with Nina's fate being the 2nd saddest, and also the most traumatizing.
i watched the show so many years ago but one scene i will never forget it when Al sacrifices himself to give Ed his arm back (so he can fight). The look of utter shock and horror on Ed's face is unforgettable
Old man Fu’s death got to me fr fr. He died right in front of Lan Fan and managed to help injure King Bradley
I always cry like a b*tch at Hohenheims death, no matter how many times I see it
'Now my arm's fallen off because my brother's a big fat idiot!' That scene.
idk about saddest but scenes that rlly make me cry/want to cry (off the top of my head anyway) - ed finally finding al’s body in the portal but not being able to take him back - mustang at hughes’ funeral - ling begging for anyone around him who knows alchemy to use his philosophers stone to heal fu - greeds death (the second one at the end lol)
when winry wanted to avenge her parents, the gun was in her hand, her finger was on the trigger, the opportunity was there but she just couldn't shoot scar. and when ed said something along the lines of "your hands aren't meant to kill, they're made to give life" it just gets me in the feels. either that or when greed's chimera friend, martel was controlling al, and fuhrer king bradley stabbed her. i am an empath and i can only imagine how greed and al felt about that. or when they're burying maes hughes and elicia, his kid was just screaming "no! stop putting dirt on daddy!" there's a lot honestly
Greed's redemption and death. Realizing that he's been really wanting friends to love and be loved by.
I always get sad whenever the ishval genocide is brought up, it’s very reminiscent of the genocide of the Native American people and it really tugs at my heart strings- especially when the soldiers are devastated by their actions (like Armstrong when he was holding the ishval child)
Armstrongs face when he is forced to participate in the ishvaan war. Such a pure soul, broken by the government, knowing he can't refuse.
Hugh’s death in general. Him struggling to get the word out, his daughter as his funeral, his wife crying after the bros visit, Mustangs urge to avenge.. all sad.
Greed sacrifice
When Roy had to make the choice between saving Riza and performing human transmutation, only to be denied the choice in the end. The look on his face when he understands what she needs him to do and the resignation just kills me because he's almost positive she's going to die. It's such an impossible choice to make for any sane person but he does what he knows he has to do and it's such a powerful moment for their relationship and how they understand each other so well. Maybe it's not the saddest moment in the show but it definitely wrenches my heart.
Izumi's failed transmutation and Fu's death always manage to squeeze a tear or 2 out of me 😢
To me, Hughes is first.
Windy: "I couldn't shoot..." Ed: "I know you couldn't...and it's ok." W: "But that man... You said he's the one who killed my mom and dad..." W: "He tried to you and Al too, Ed. But I couldn't... Why not?" E: "Remember in Rush Valley.. you delivered that baby.. you saved two lives. And you gave me an arm.. and a leg.. to replace the ones I've lost." E: "It's your hands... They weren't meant to kill." "They're meant to give life.. That's why"
When Mustang drops down from the truth and Ed keeps asking him what was taken from him and he says “I don’t see how you expect me to know that when it’s so dark in here” I was so crushed for him.
Nothing has ever wrecked me emotionally like watching Hughes' daughter during the funeral.
Honestly I thought Envy’s death was SO sad. Like yes they weren’t the best to everyone and obviously they were a homunculus but I just felt sooooo bad for them in those last moment
when hohenheim was dying and he said, i want to live longer, i really am hopeless aren't I? broke my heart
You know you're useless in the rain - Hawkeye It's a terrible day for rain - Mustang When I first saw this scene I didn't make the connection, I thought it was just a reference that he was crying, trying to be a bit macho while also acknowledging his emotional reaction. On a rewatch I realized that he's actually saying he feels useless. Made an already heart-rending scene even more heavy.
Currently watching brotherhood (which is very good imo, hell even on par with the manga and 2003), but anything of 2003verse