Full Metal Alchemist – Conquer of Shambhala

Just watched Full Metal Alchemist – Conquer of Shambhala (劇場版 鋼の錬金術師 シャンバラを征く者). The subtitles were pretty horrible. Badly translated, missing translations, very bad timing, and tons of typos. However, the story was so good! I don’t want to spoil anything here, but you can read about it in the spoilers.

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Shambhala, according to Wikipedia is In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Shambhala (also spelled Shambala or Shamballa) is a mystical kingdom hidden somewhere beyond the snowpeaks of the Himalayas. It is mentioned in various ancient texts including the Kalachakra and the ancient texts of the Zhang Zhung culture which pre-dated Tibetan Buddhism in western Tibet. The Bon scriptures speak of a closely-related land called Olmolungring.

Spoilers:

The TV series left much to be desired with Edward and Alphonse seperated. In this movie, it starts off with Ed telling his stories about his world to “another” Alphonse. So let me back track. Ed apparently found an Al-look-a-like in Romania and this Alphonse researches on rocket science. Apparently, physicists exists in Ed and Al’s world too, but their parallel universe followed the route of Alchemy instead of Physics.

Somehow, the Germans and Nazis were involved, as well as the Thule Society. Adolf Hitler (or as called the Fuhrer in the anime) also appeared trying to resurrect Germany after World War I. So that’s the time frame I believe. The Thule Society was trying to connect to Shambhala, this mythical parallel universe and acquire their power to fight the war.

Later on, you find that this new Alphonse is making a rocket to help Thule Society arrive at Shambhala safely. Apparently it needed to reach 11km/hr (or maybe the subtitles were wrong). Tons of duplicates from the original world are also shown in this world, but completely different such as Hughes is stil a police officer. Scar also showed up as a truck driver. I can go on and on with the list, but lets get to the interesting parts.

MAJOR SPOILERS:

Al has been trying to figure a way to find his lost brother and when the Thule Society attempted to open the gate between the 2 worlds, he was able to send a armer with part of his soul attached into the other world, finding his brother. So he attempts to connect to the world from his side. Wrath and Gluttony were sacrificed on that side of the gate while Envy and Hohenheim were sacrificed on the other side. After Envy went through the gate in the last episode, apparently he became a big snake (also known as a dragon) in the other world.

After the gate was reopened, Thule Society sent it’s rockets through. The 2nd Alphonse realized that such another world exists and sent Ed through it first. The reunion of Ed and Al and Winry was quite bittersweet. Why I say bittersweet, you’ll find out shortly.

Someone the story ties into the fact that people who you don’t associate with are monsters. That’s why humans somteimes see humans who are different as monsters and would do anything to eliminate (think Nazis and Jews). The Thule Society saw alchemists as a threat and believe they needed to destroy that world at all cost.

Al and Ed team up to fight this invading army which was cool since both of their alchemy skills were superb. Mustang also arrived to help. After they defeated the ‘boss’, Ed knew what he needed to do. He had to bring this army back to the other world because they didn’t belong there. He also needed to close the gate from the other side. Al begged his brother to stay, but he wouldn’t listen. Winry already knew what Ed would do, but she was still sad to see him go, after only seeing him briefly.

After arriving back to the other world, Al pops up hidden inside an armor suit. It was so cute that these 2 brothers get to reunite!

Seems like the DVDRip has finally been released! I just saw PsyKE‘s release and from what I saw, it was pretty good. Did a quick skim and and the fonts, timing, and translations were all pretty decent. Enjoy!

5 Replies to “Full Metal Alchemist – Conquer of Shambhala”

  1. Hi, I found your website via google and I noticed the FMA movie blog.

    I’ve been looking for this movie for a while now and I can’t seem to find a good copy of it. I clicked the link you put at the bottom of the screen and nothing came up. Can you please e-mail me the torrent or another link for that movie? It would be greatly appreciated

    Thanks in advance
    -Frank Mazza

  2. “After arriving back to the other world, Al pops up hidden inside an armor suit.”

    Which world? That part was slightly confusing. I’m hoping to get the movie this christmas, hopefully that will clear alot up.

  3. yeh this thingy was awsome.
    I havent actually seen the movie so this gave me a good idea of what its about and weather ill see it or not.
    It sounds interesting enough though.
    Also at the end does Roy Mustang and Riza Hawkeye get married with Winry and Al as some of the Bridesmaids and Grooms men? cause thats what ma friend said but shes always lieing lol XD
    And is it true that at the end scar goes through to the “other world” and is driving in the car with roy and then scar sees a look-a-like of the Furere and then stops the car and goes and bashes the shit outta him? Cause she also told me that that happened sooooo? yer?

    lol it would be a great help if you could answer those last few questions for me thanks!

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  4. Also at the end does Roy Mustang and Riza Hawkeye get married with Winry and Al as some of the Bridesmaids and Grooms men? cause thats what ma friend said but shes always lieing lol XD

    Regarding Mustand and Hawkeye, your friend’s pretty close. They don’t do the whole wedding ceremony, but you see Hawkeye with her hair down peeling an apple for Mustang. No bridesmaid or groomsmen.

    The look-a-likes are really just look-a-likes. There’s an Al in 1 world and there’s an AL in the other world, but they’re different characters.

    Hope that helps. 🙂

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