Episodes

The first episode of the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime, Those Who Challenge the Sun introduces Edward and Alphonse Elric as they arrive in Reole and unmask the miracle-working priest Cornello, who secretly wields a Philosopher's Stone.

The second episode of the 2003 series pits the Elric brothers against Cornello, a sham holy man passing off cheap alchemy as divine miracles. Behind his golden promises sit a counterfeit Philosopher's Stone and a scheme to seize a nation…

Mother is the third episode of the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist series, a flashback recounting the Elric brothers' childhood, their mother's death, and the failed transmutation that cost them their bodies.

The fourth episode of the 2003 series sends the Elrics chasing a lead on an alchemist who knew their father, only to be drawn into a village haunted by a supposed ghost and a heartbroken man's obsession with a woman he lost twenty years…

The fifth episode of the 2003 series puts the Elrics on a hijacked train to Central, where a bandit with an automail arm holds a general and the passengers hostage. Foiling the plot ends up earning Edward an unexpected shot at the State…

The sixth episode of the 2003 anime settles the Elrics into Shou Tucker's mansion as they cram for the State Alchemy Exam. A birthday, a snowbound delivery, and a three-stage test push Edward toward certification while quiet unease gathers…

The seventh episode of the 2003 anime delivers the series' first great horror. Now a certified State Alchemist, Edward begins prying into Shou Tucker's chimera work, and the answer he uncovers about a talking beast and a missing wife…

Grief over Nina's death drives Edward to abandon his State Alchemist post and stalk a killer, only for Winry to fall into the very butcher's trap he is chasing. The eighth chapter of the 2003 series links the brothers' first glimpse of the…

On his first official assignment, Edward confronts a corrupt officer bleeding a mining town dry and outwits him with a clever gold swindle. The ninth episode of the 2003 series closes the flashback to Ed's early days and returns the…

Episode ten of the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime, The Phantom Thief sends Edward and Alphonse into the sinking town of Aquroya, where they tangle with Psiren, a Robin Hood thief whose robberies conceal a purpose of their own.

Chasing a lead on the Philosopher's Stone, Ed and Al reach a dying gold town only to find two impostors wearing their names. The fakes turn out to be brothers of their own, and the red water fueling their research is quietly poisoning…

The truth behind Xenotime's sickness surfaces as Ed and Al learn who the Tringham brothers really are and what became of their father. Exposing Mugear's scheme means confronting the red water at its source, even as it threatens to flood…

With his yearly recertification looming, Ed goads Mustang into a public duel, betting that a win will pry loose the truth about a fugitive doctor. Flame trades blows with Fullmetal while a hidden killer draws steadily closer to the east.

The brothers track down a hidden doctor who guards knowledge they crave, but locating him is only half the danger. The alchemist-hunting killer Scar is closing in, and a mighty new ally arrives just as blood begins to spill.

Marcoh finally recounts the atrocity that broke him, a war that was less a battle than an extermination waged by state alchemists. The truth reshapes how Ed sees his allies, and a brutal confrontation with Scar leaves the brothers…

When Al is accidentally left behind at a lonely train stop, Ed's search for him becomes a detour that shakes his faith in the ideals he lives by. Two encounters, one with a scheming child and one with an old veteran, force the young…

Back in Resembool after more than four years away, Edward and Alphonse walk through the wreckage of their childhood home. With their mother long buried and old memories starting to slip, the brothers wrestle with what family and belonging…

The eighteenth episode of the 2003 series sends the brothers chasing Tim Marcoh's hidden research through Central's great library, only to watch the building go up in flames. With the notes seemingly lost, Edward hunts for another route to…

The nineteenth episode of the 2003 series confronts Edward and Alphonse with the ghastly cost of a Philosopher's Stone, living human beings. Determined to confirm the horror, the brothers slip into the abandoned Laboratory 5 and run…

The twentieth episode of the 2003 series traps the brothers inside Laboratory 5, where two hollow-armored killers stand guard. As Edward duels the Slicer and Alphonse faces Barry the Chopper, both guardians press unnerving doubts about…

The twenty-first episode of the 2003 series draws killers, homunculi, and a resurrected madman toward Laboratory 5. Amid the chaos, Edward faces the return of Shou Tucker and a stockpile of red stones that dangle the forbidden power he has…

The 22nd episode of the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime. With Alphonse held captive inside Laboratory 5, Ed is pressured toward turning living prisoners into a Philosopher's Stone, while the homunculi finally reveal what they are and what…

The 23rd episode of the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime. Winry comes to Central to mend Ed's arm and bristles at the secrets the brothers keep, while Alphonse's doubts about whether his soul is even real drive a painful rift between them.

The 24th episode of the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime. A wandering Alphonse falls in with two Ishvalan orphans and their guardian Scar as mercenaries hunt the refugees, and a sealed locket finally reveals the truth about the boys' lost…

The 25th episode of the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime. As Hughes pieces together a conspiracy that reaches the Fuhrer's office, his discovery makes him a target, and the beloved officer pays for the truth with his life.

The 26th episode of the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime. In the automail town of Rush Valley, Winry meets a light-fingered girl with mechanical limbs and sets out to make Ed appreciate the arm she built for him, while Mustang stalls his own…

The 27th episode of the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime. The brothers' fearsome alchemy teacher Izumi Curtis hauls them back to Dublith, and flashbacks trace how a stray orphan pair once talked their way into her brutal apprenticeship.

All Is One, One Is All is the twenty-eighth episode of the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist series, in which Izumi strands Ed and Al on a deserted island to make them relive the survival trial that first taught them her core lesson.

The Untainted Child is the twenty-ninth episode of the 2003 anime, introducing a strange boy on Yock Island who wields alchemy without a circle, carries the very limbs Edward lost, and draws Izumi's protective care to the Elrics' growing…

Assault on South Headquarters is the thirtieth episode of the 2003 anime, in which Archer arrests the mysterious boy as a suspected homunculus and a furious Izumi storms the military base to free him, drawing Greed's chimeras and a…

Sin is the thirty-first episode of the 2003 anime, in which Envy tells Wrath the truth of his stolen limbs and origin, and Izumi confesses on Yock Island that she created the boy through a failed transmutation of her stillborn son.

Dante of the Deep Forest is the thirty-second episode of the 2003 anime, in which Izumi expels the Elrics and then sends them to her old teacher Dante for medicine, while Greed's ambush and a bloody riot in the Southern Slums close in from…

In the 2003 series' thirty-third episode, Alphonse is dragged off to the Devil's Nest and interrogated by the homunculus Greed, whose hunger for immortality centers on Al's bonded soul, while Izumi, Ed, and the state military converge on…

The 2003 series' thirty-fourth episode ends Greed's story: as the military massacres his gang in the sewers and Lyra betrays him at Dante's house, Edward cracks the science of the Ultimate Shield and kills the homunculus, who dies…

The 2003 series' thirty-fifth episode turns to Lust, who is haunted by questions of her origins after Greed's death. Reunited with a healer named Lujon whom she once taught, she relives fragments of a past life while a homunculus scheme…

The 2003 series' thirty-sixth episode carries the Elrics and Winry toward Ishbal, where an exiled elder explains the true cost of the Philosopher's Stone, Winry uncovers who killed her parents, and the homunculi move to intercept the…

The 2003 series' thirty-seventh episode is a lighter, three-part comedy following Mustang's unit off the battlefield: surveilling their own commander, matchmaking for the luckless Havoc, and investigating a supposedly haunted warehouse. It…

The 2003 series' thirty-eighth episode splits the Elrics after a heated quarrel on the road to Ishval, while Winry and Sheska tap a phone line at Central Command and stumble onto the horrifying secret of the Führer's secretary.

In the thirty-ninth episode of the 2003 series, the chimera Martel unravels the real spark of the Ishvalan war for the Elrics, forcing Edward and Alphonse to doubt the official history they were raised on as the military marches toward a…

The fortieth episode of the 2003 series lays bare the tragedy behind Scar's tattooed arm, ties the homunculi to failed resurrections, and ends with a shattering blow as Bradley reveals what he truly is inside Alphonse's armor.

The forty-first episode of the 2003 series pushes Reole toward disaster as Scar readies the townsfolk to sacrifice the invading army, Ed faces the horror of Sloth's origin, and Alphonse joins a duel between Scar and Kimbley that none may…

The forty-second episode of the 2003 series brings Scar's plan to its terrible fruition, sacrificing Archer's soldiers to forge the Philosopher's Stone, while Ed races underground to reach the surface before the massacre unfolds.

The forty-third episode of the 2003 series brands the Elrics fugitives hunted dead or alive, brings their estranged father back to Resembool, and pits Mustang's unit against the brothers in a chase that ends with a confession about Winry's…

The 44th chapter of the 2003 series drops a bombshell when Van Hohenheim resurfaces in Resembool and lays bare the homunculi's true nature for Mustang. As the Elric brothers reel from learning that Hughes died months ago, their estranged…

The 45th chapter of the 2003 run exposes the four-century secret binding Hohenheim to Dante as she casts him beyond the Gate. Mustang faces down the entire military council to smoke out the Fuhrer, while a disguised Edward hunts for a…

The 46th chapter of the 2003 series ties Shou Tucker's grief to Alphonse's power as the desperate scientist tries to revive Nina with the Stone. Out in the streets, a cornered Edward glimpses a startling ache behind Lust's cold composure.

The 47th chapter of the 2003 series stages a three-way homunculi clash as Edward moves to seal Sloth using a piece of his mother's remains. Loyalties splinter across the warehouse floor, and by the end two of Dante's creations lie dead.

The 48th chapter of the 2003 series scatters its heroes toward their final reckonings. Envy steals Alphonse away, Mustang stages a decoy revolt in the north, and Edward parts ways with the colonel for the last time.

The 49th chapter of the 2003 series drags Edward face to face with Dante, who tears down his faith in equivalent exchange before a stray transmutation flings him across the Gate into a war-torn parallel London.

The penultimate episode of the 2003 series splits between two worlds: Edward stranded beyond the Gate learning the grim source of alchemy, and Mustang facing the Fuhrer's true identity in a lethal duel. Both threads converge as Envy…