Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood: "The Promise Made for 520 Cenz"

Excellent, excellent episode. No other show on TV matches FMA:B right now in terms of consistent excellence. Highlight was Dr. Knox's reunion with his family, pitch-perfectly done. Tender, heartfelt...his monologue especially as he poured tea brought me to tears. Ok, so admittedly I cry rather easily. Still...extremely affecting moment. Another highlight was seeing Roy and Riza's farewell. Just really nicely done here...conveying how they feel about each other without either of them saying anything direct. The animation, writing, direction and voicework here is simply superb at bringing across such nuance. And in an episode packed with events, Kimbley, the nefarious Crimson Alchemist, is now free (through no small help by Envy), and on the hunt for Scar. Which brings us to the nice twist from the last episode, that Marcoh isn't, in fact, dead. Still, Scar disfiguring him was pretty brutal, and in front of young May Chan, no less. Kimbley vs. Scar sounds like a real battle royale. Laugh-out-loud moment of the week, without a doubt, goes to Ed's drawing of Xiao Mai. Dude really doesn't like pandas :)