She, Melvin, and Al are helped by the people who live in the bottom of the valley and it's revealed that not only is Julia the leader of their resistance force and the Bats, but they're searching for something, something Ed and Al know quite well: the Philosopher's Stone. Ed and Al are separated when Al attempts to save Julia from falling, but ends up following her right off the cliff into the valley below, with Melvin on their heels. Once in Table City, Ed and Al are just in time to witness Julia's prison break, and get pulled into a battle between Melvin Voyager (who was on the train) and the Bats. The train goes out of control, and despite their best efforts to stop it, it slams into the station. While en route via train, the train is attacked by werewolf chimeras, and while Ed is fighting on top of the train, it's once again attacked by a glider-riding group calling themselves the Black Bats. Further investigation reveals that she's being detained in Table City, which lies on the border between Creta and Amestris in the Western region, and so Edward and Alphonse are sent out by Colonel Mustang to investigate. The removed piece is actually a photograph of an older Julia Crichton being arrested by military police.
The story begins with the Crichton family being chased from their homeland and into Creta, where Julia is orphaned when her parents are brutally murdered.īack in Amestris, an alchemic prison break by Melvin Voyager, who was a few months shy of his parole, has the Amestrian military confused until they discover a newspaper that has had something removed. The animation is also much simpler and the frame rate is visible to the naked eye.
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The style and color of Riza Hawkeye's eye is slightly different, the shape of Roy Mustang's eyes are different as well, Edward Elric's hair is usually outlined with a similar color of blond, but it is outlined with black similar to the first series of the Fullmetal Alchemist, and there are no "sharp edges" as the ends of everyone's hair is curved, giving it a blunt look. The eyes are rarely shaded, and are only accentuated by small details of lighter hues. The colors are sharper with a lack of shading on character models.
The film, contrary to many rumors, is animated and not live-action.īy the style of the film's visuals, it is a definite departure from the style of both anime series and the manga. It involves movie-only characters and an original story, including Werewolf chimeras, an army of winged soldiers named the Black Bats, an alchemist with talent in water transmutations, and a mysterious castle named Table City. The film is technically non-canon, as it does not fit into the Brotherhood timeline, though it seems to occur sometime after Alphonse has learned to transmute without a transmutation circle and before Mustang's subordinates were split up by Führer Bradley. On November 14, 2010, the movie website launched a teaser trailer stating that the movie's title would be Fullmetal Alchemist: Milos no Seinaru Hoshi and that it would be released in the summer of 2011. FUNimation released the Japanese version of Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos in theaters in early 2012 and on DVD and Blu-ray in the spring.Īt the end of the last episode of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, an announcement was made declaring that a Brotherhood movie had been green-lit and would be coming to Japanese theaters at some point in the near future. The movie was followed by a Q and A with the film's director Murata Kasuya. It premiered in Japan on July 2nd, 2011 and a subtitled version made its American premiere at Otakon in Baltimore. It is the second film based on the popular Fullmetal Alchemist franchise, the first being Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa. Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (鋼の錬金術師 嘆きの丘 ( ミロス )の聖なる星, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Mirosu no Sei-naru Hoshi) is an animated movie based on the storyline of the manga and the second anime.