I am planning to write this last Saturday since I am packing my things, I wasn't able to write this, anyways, FMA: Brotherhood on TV5 last Friday. If you watched the original Japanese version,they removed a couple of scenes especially in the battle scene with Gluttony. To those who didn't watched the original Japanese version, the first removed scene was when Scar used his arm to explode Gluttony's head, next was when Ling placed the grenade inside Gluttony's mouth and lastly, the scene were Wrath saw Lan Fan's arm tied in a dog.
The first edited scene was dirty. I mean, you can see that they clearly cut that scene out since I still heard Gluttony's scream suddenly interrupted. The second one was cleaner than the first one since after Gluttony exploded, we saw Ed landed because of the impact of the explosion and saw drops of blood and Gluttony's tongue. Last is Lan Fan's arm, this is what I say is the the cleanest edit that I saw in this episode. After Wrath saw her arm, we saw Wrath's reaction and then we return to the scene where Ed and Al saw Gluttony's exploded parts evaporating and the scene where he regenerates. Then we return to Lan Fan in which we saw her in a sewer, breathing heavily without her arm.
At first, I hated when I saw that this episode has some cuts. I mean, it ruined the epicness of the episode! But then, I realized later on that there are also kids watching this show and if the kids will saw this with their parents watching with them, they will be alarmed and the next day, TV5 will be flooded with angry e-mails from concerned parents. I mean, this is the main reason why FMA: B was in a late night timeslot in Animax Asia.
In case this episode will air in North America some day, hope they will do a clean edit on this episode.
To those who missed last Friday's back-to-back episode, here are the videos courtesy of theSandies.