well it got pretty shounen-esque this chapter with "everyone lend me your strength" and "your power level is not the same as mine", but at least the solution for "everyone was dead but then they got better" was something introduced a long time ago in this manga, back with Al and Barry the Chopper. of course, hoenheim's "I hid something around the country for years and it somehow keeps us in this fight" was still more than a little bit WTF

and, of course, Wrath. Fucking there he goes, and he totally was a bastard to the very end, even with the thing with his wife, which i thought was going to play a bigger role.

I do not think there could be anything more suitably ironic than the Ishbalans cooperating to restore alchemy throughout Amestris.

let's see how this ends