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Originally Posted by Zolda

Gigist says @ 00:30 that Germain was destroyed, and Glion says @ 00:58 that his soul and Germain's body was fused, so there's little chance that Germain will ever appear again. Germain was supposed to be a God who ate Glion, a mere human, alive. Yet, Glion was not destroyed at all, but was still intact without zero damage whatsoever. The story showed that Germain took Glion into the Door of Darkness and ate him alive. Germain himself stated in the beginning of episode 40 that he was the one who ate Glion. But as it turned out, Germain merely kidnapped and imprisoned Glion inside his body. Germain was supposed to be a God but he couldn't even destroy a mere human. What a dumb God. It seems like Gaelya and Gigist will meet their demise through the same kind of stupid mistake and sheer incompetence. It's more and more the case that the Unholy Trinity (Gigist/Germain/Gaelya) = Gifu v2.0, or rather, Gifu v3.0. *facepalm

Geryon wasn't a mere human though, he was a homunculus and it seems like Germain was unaware that Geryon had backed up his consciousness inside the engoldened Rubik's Cube. Germain did eat Geryon, did kill him, probably did everything he claimed to have done, but of course he was still an idiot and his critical mistake was making a servant smarter than himself. Gif was lucky that he lived in a world of gullible idiots, otherwise Revice would've ended much sooner. I would expect more of Gigist and maybe Gaelijah.

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Originally Posted by Zolda

Thematically, a research that attempts to fuse organic matter (turtle) and inorganic matter (tank) could be an allusion to transhumanism. Spanner's statement @ 18:04 could be an allusion to unethical bioengineering researches such as DNA editing and other forms of invasive genetic engineering, to which he actually agrees on the AU's decision to apply the precautionary principle by forbidding new development of Chemies since a decade ago. This is an interesting theme that should've been developed since early in the story, not in the last 20%. What have you been doing, Gotchard writers?

Wouldn't be the first time we've seen a "Kaizo Chemy". Mechanichani is part crab, part mecha. Gigalodon is part megalodon, part battleship. Spanner has grown to see Chemies as more than mere tools, but he's right that they're a potential threat to humanity and that the creation of more Chemies would increase that risk. Unless there's a way to permanently remove the malice attraction from the equation.

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Originally Posted by DH21965

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

Other than that, this might be the most amusing Spanner's been in a while. Sticking him with a sassy kid was honestly just what he needed. I also like how this has been like one of the very few times he's fought together with just Houtaro and the finale of said fight is Houtaro dragging him to be shot out of a cannon lol

Spanner is so serious that he must assert his Super A Rank Alchemist superiority to not only teenagers, but even a little kid.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

Well, as expected, this is a Sabimaru reveal episode. In this regard, the show does a great job, as we learn that Sabi grew up in an environment where his oddities were not at all such and were even encouraged, and we also get drama with his older brother and the unstable Chemi that they created together. Isaac's nature is also revealed and it turns out that Sh Ranger was right. In terms of the general plot, this is something straight out of Showa: a commune hidden from outsiders, which is aware of all the affairs of the heroes, but no one knows anything about it.

I was surprised to learn that the world of alchemy has an elementary school. It's good to see the kids' excitement about alchemy. So the Tsuruhara siblings created at least 13 versions of Isaac together, with the intention of bridging the communication gap between humans and Chemies, which would surely bring Houtarou's dream another step closer to reality. Like with Hopper1 in Episode 27, looks like Isaac can change his voice at his own judgment to match the one whose thoughts he's interpreting, but I guess Sabi is such a big Isaac fan that he just prefers using the default voice setting.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

However, the atmosphere itself, when the seemingly benevolent head of the laboratory keeps dark secrets, really hooked me.

I think Kongo Laboratories is the same place as Katsuragi's lab?