Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos

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Anime movie
title Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos
Original title 鋼 の 錬 金 術 師 嘆 き の 丘 （ミ ロ ス） の 聖 な る 星
transcription Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Milos no Sei-Naru Hoshi
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Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2011
Studio Bones
length 110 minutes
genre Action, adventure
Rod
Director Kazuya Murata
script Yūichi Shinpo
music Taro Iwashiro
synchronization

Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos ( Japanese 鋼 の 錬 金 術 師 嘆 き の 丘 （ミ ロ ス） の 聖 な る 星 , Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Milos no Sei-Naru Hoshi ) is an anime film from 2011 and an offshoot of the Manga - and anime series Fullmetal Alchemist . The plot is not embedded in the series. The film was made by Studio Bones and was also released in German in 2012.

action

The two young brothers and alchemists Edward and Alphonse Elric are commissioned by the Amestris military to catch the alchemist Melvin Voyager, who has escaped from the military prison in Central City. They are fascinated by its abilities and hope that it can be useful in their search for the Philosopher's Stone. They follow him to Table City on the border between Amestris and Creta, where they are attacked by chimeras on their arrival and a fight between bat soldiers and Amestians breaks out. Melvin escapes and the Elric brothers follow him to a prison. In this Melvin wants to find the recently captured Julia Chrichton. There the three meet Miranda, the leader of the bat soldiers who want to free Julia. A fight ensues between Edward and Melvin, while Julia is freed and falls into the ravine that surrounds Table City with Alphonse. In the fight, Melvin reveals that he is actually Julia's brother Ashleigh before Edward can follow his brother into the ravine. Below, Edward learns from the poor residents that they were once the people of Milos. But when this was conquered by Creta and later Amestris, the inhabitants were driven into the gorge and the city above became Table City. Those who want to free Milos and its people have gathered at the bat soldiers. But they are fought by the Cretan commander Herschel with his chimeras, as well as by the Amestrian military. Miranda tells that they want to make use of Magma for their fight, that they summon the star of Milos with a red stone. The Elric brothers recognize that it is a philosopher's stone and declare that it was made through human sacrifice. But the Milosians still want to use it for their goals. Ashleigh also wants to help them and Julia.

The brothers then go to Table City to search for the star in order to destroy it. Meanwhile, the bat soldiers attack the city. But when they reached their destination, Ashleigh murders Miranda in order to complete the star with her victim. It turns out that he is not Julia's brother, but Atlas, a former servant of the Chrichtons. He murdered Juliet's parents and stole her brother's face in order to deceive them. The brothers are able to save them, but during this time the Cretan army triggered a wave of lava that pours into the ravine. To stop them, Julia wants to sacrifice the Philosopher's Stone that has just been created. But in the valley they meet Atlas, who still wants the stone, and Commander Herschel. He reveals himself to be a true Ashleigh, who only survived Atlas deed through his own Philosopher's Stone. He kills Atlas in revenge for the murder of his parents and invites Julia to go to Creta together. But she refuses and can defeat him together with the Elric brothers. Together they hold up the lava. Eventually Julia heals her brother and gives him his old face back, using up both Philosopher's Stones.

The Milos insurgents defeat the Cretans who are without their commanders and declare their independence. Julia can live in her liberated land while her brother goes to Creta and the Elric brothers return to Amestris.

Creation and publication

The film was made at Studio Bones under the direction of Kazuya Murata and based on a script by Yūichi Shinpo . The character design was created by Kenichi Konishi , the mechanical design was done by Shinji Aramaki and the artistic direction was by Kazuo Ogura and Tomoaki Okada . Kenichi Konishi directed the animation.

It was distributed by Shochiku , who released the film in Japanese theaters on July 2, 2011. On the same day it was demonstrated at the japan Expo in Paris. This was followed by demonstrations at various international festivals and later publications on commercial media. A German dubbed version was published by Animaze in September 2012.

synchronization

The German dubbed version was created by Soundcompany Audiopost.

role Japanese speakers ( seiyū ) German speakers
Edward Elric Romi Park Klemens Fuhrmann
Alphonse Elric Rie Kugimiya Andi Krösing
Melvin Voyager Toshiyuki Morikawa Christoph Banks
Julia Crichton Maaya Sakamoto Jennifer White

music

The score was composed by Taro Iwashiro . The song Chasing Hearts by Miwa was used for the opening credits and the credits were underlaid with Good Luck My Way by L'Arc-en-Ciel .

reception

In Japan, the film reached number 4 in the box office and grossed almost 6 million US dollars in the first four weeks. At the 2011 Burbank International Film Festival, the anime won the awards for best animated feature film and for best animation film director.

According to Animania, the German dubbed version caused "a lot of excitement in the [...] fan base", as speakers other than those in the television series were hired and the dialogue book contained a few blooms, for example atypical expressions such as "age", "type" and "freak".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Japanese Box Office, July 2-3. In: Anime News Network. July 10, 2011, accessed November 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Japanese Box Office, July 23-24. In: Anime News Network. July 30, 2011, accessed November 26, 2018 .
  3. ^ Production Awards. In: Burbank International Film Festival. Retrieved November 26, 2018 .
  4. ^ Film & Writing Awards. In: Burbank International Film Festival. Retrieved November 26, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Animania 6/2014, p. 10.

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