"YOU CANNOT GAIN ANYTHING WITHOUT FIRST GIVING SOMETHING IN RETURN."
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is the rare show that earns every single one of its emotional beats. The alchemy is just a metaphor for the show's actual rule: everything has a cost. The Elric brothers pay and pay and pay, and you sit there devastated, wondering what you'd sacrifice for the same.
Brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric tried to use alchemy to resurrect their mother — the one thing alchemy forbids. They paid with their bodies. Now they search for the Philosopher's Stone to restore what they lost, uncovering a conspiracy that reaches to the heart of their nation.