Fullmetal Alchemist: Season 1
2003 · 51 episodes · ★ 7.5
What Season 1 of Fullmetal Alchemist
Brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric try to bring their mother back to life with alchemy, but the experiment goes wrong and takes their bodies. Edward loses a leg and Alphonse loses his entire body, so his soul is sealed inside a suit of armor. To get them back, Edward joins the military as a State Alchemist and searches for the Philosopher's Stone. Along the way, the brothers arrive in a desert town that prospers thanks to a priest who performs miracles, and they must find out whether those wonders come from God or from the stone. Their investigation also leads them to corrupt soldiers and alchemists with dark intentions, while the past of a country at war weighs on every decision they make.
Season 1 Episodes
1x01 Those Who Challenge the Sun
When Edward and Alphonse meet a so-called religious leader who can invoke miracles, they believe he's carrying the philosopher's stone.
Directed by Seiji Mizushima, Kazuki Tsunoda · Written by Sho Aikawa
1x02 Body of the Sanctioned
Edward and Alphonse struggle over whether they should reveal the truth behind Cornello's miracles -- and possibly ruin the townspeople's lives.
Directing: Kenji Yasuda · Writing: Sho Aikawa
1x03 Mother
A young Ed and Al are determined to bring back their dead mother, who was their pillar of strength during dreary times of war.
Directing: Shingo Kaneko
1x04 A Forger's Love
While on their way to seek out an important man from their childhood, Ed and Al come across a town haunted by a ghostly woman.
Directing: Kazuhisa Ono · Writing: Toshiki Inoue
1x05 The Man with the Mechanical Arm
Ed and Al hop aboard a train to Central City and quickly find themselves defending the passengers -- including Gen. Hakuro -- from terrorists.
Directing: Shigeru Ueda · Writing: Aya Yoshinaga
1x06 The Alchemy Exam
Once in Central City, Ed and Al move into the vast mansion of sewing-life alchemist Shou Tucker and begin to prepare for the Alchemy Exam.
Directed by Johei Matsuura · Written by Natsuko Takahashi
1x07 Night of the Chimera's Cry
Now an official State Alchemist, Ed takes a closer look at Tucker's chimera experiments and begins to realize there's something very wrong going on.
Directing: Kenji Yasuda · Writing: Sho Aikawa
1x08 The Philosopher's Stone
A disenchanted Ed resigns from his position as State Alchemist, and when Winry arrives in town, she may be the serial killer's next victim.
Directing: Yoshito Hata · Writing: Sho Aikawa
1x09 Be Thou for the People
Ed and Al go on assignment to inspect a small mining colony and discover its inhabitants are being heavily taxed by a tyrant and his Alchemist.
Directing: Atsushi Otsuki · Writers: Katsuhiko Takayama
1x10 The Phantom Thief
While trying to avoid their meeting with Mustang, Ed and Al end up in a small town and become embroiled in a manhunt for a female Robin Hood.
With: Miho Shiraishi
1x11 The Other Brothers Elric (1)
Ed and Al head to Xenotime in hopes of finding the Philosopher's Stone, but they find only two boys creating a strange red water.
Directed by Kazuki Kakuta · Written by Natsuko Takahashi
1x12 The Other Brothers Elric (2)
Ed and Al uncover a conspiracy involving the Tringham Brothers' father, his involvement with the red water and the disease that's stricken Xenotime.
Directing: Masakazu Amiya · Writing: Manabu Ishikawa
1x13 Fullmetal vs. Flame
Ed reports back to Mustang in East City, where discussion of Doctor Marcoh and the Philosopher's Stone leads to a duel between Ed and the colonel.
Directed by Masahiro Ando · Written by Sho Aikawa
1x14 Destruction's Right Hand
While the shape-shifting Envy disguises himself as Cornello, Ed and Al find Marcoh and learn about the Stone's involvement in the Ishbal Rebellion.
Directed by Tarou Iwasaki · Written by Sho Aikawa
1x15 The Ishbal Massacre
As the Strong Arm Alchemist defends them from the surrounding chaos, Marcoh reveals to the Elrics the vast atrocities of the Ishbal Massacre.
Directing: Kenji Yasuda · Writing: Sho Aikawa
1x16 That Which Is Lost
As Marcoh faces a deadly encounter with Lust, Armstrong and the Elrics flee to Resembool. Ed is sent into a rage when they lose Al in the process.
Directing: Masakazu Hashimoto · Writing: Sho Aikawa
1x17 House of the Waiting Family
While resting and receiving repairs back in Resembool, Ed visits his mother's grave and Al reveals his concerns about his fading memories.
Directed by Kazuki Kakuta · Written by Natsuko Takahashi
1x18 Marcoh's Notes
Ed and Al are forced to go in search of another source for Marcoh's book after Lust, Gluttony and Scar burn the First Branch Library to the ground.
Directing: Atsushi Otsuki · Writing: Manabu Ishikawa
1x19 The Truth Behind Truths
Ed and Al are horrified when they learn what the key ingredient in making a Philosopher's Stone is, but they forge ahead to explore an abandoned lab.
1x20 Soul of the Guardian
Several malfunctions in their armor impede Ed and Al as they face off against some tortured souls bound to empty suits.
1x21 The Red Glow
Barry sets off a series of explosions that inadvertently free Greed and the other prisoners. Tucker returns from the dead in a surprising new form.
1x22 Created Human
As Envy, in the form of Basque Grand, gathers the human ingredients to form the Stone, Maes Hughes sets out to rescue the Elrics from Laboratory 5.
1x23 Heart of Steel
Edward upsets Winry with his refusal to talk, and Alphonse decides to confront Edward with his questions about artificial souls.
1x24 Bonding Memories
Alphonse runs off and comes face to face with Scar, who's been hiding out among the mercenary-plagued refugees of Ishbal.
1x25 Words of Farewell
When Ed and Al take Winry on a quest to tail Scar and learn more about the Stone, they discover a connection between Lab 5 and the war in Ishbal.
Directing: Seiji Mizushima
1x26 Her Reason
As Ed, Al and Winry arrive in Rush Valley to retrieve automail, Mustang figures that a high-ranking officer must be responsible for Hughes' death.
1x27 Teacher
Edward and Alphonse fear for their lives when they come face to face with Izumi Curtis, their former teacher, who brings them back to Dublith.
1x28 All is One, One is All
In order to teach them a life lesson and give them time to reflect, Izumi leaves Ed and Al on Yock Island -- the place where she first found them.
Directing: Shigeru Ueda
1x29 The Untainted Child
Edward and Alphonse discover that the young boy on Yock Island is, all at once, an alchemist, a homunculus and able to transmute his own body.
1x30 Assault on South Headquarters
As the military captures the mysterious Yock Island boy and imprisons him in South Headquarters, Yoki spots Scar among a group of Ishbalans.
1x31 Sin
Envy disguises herself as Bradley and plucks the homunculus child from Izumi. Meanwhile, the boy remembers his past after he eats Stone fragments.
1x32 Dante of the Deep Forest
Izumi drops in on Ed and Al's fight with Wrath, a new homunculus who seeks the rest of Edward's body in order to make himself human.
1x33 Al, Captured
When Martel takes over Al's armor and brings him to Greed's headquarters, it's up to Izumi and Edward to come to the rescue
1x34 Theory of Avarice
With Ed, Izumi and Sig in his custody, Lt. Col. Archer reinstates Shou Tucker as State Alchemist and orders his men to hunt down Greed.
Directing: Jun Fukuda
1x35 Reunion of the Fallen
As Edward and Alphonse head out to the Ishbal camp with Winry, Lust is sitting down at a restaurant when a man from her past enters the room.
1x36 The Sinner Within
Ed and Alphonse hope to learn more about the Philosopher's Stone when they lend a hand to a group of Ishbalan refugees being shipped further south.
1x37 The Flame Alchemist, The Bachelor Lieutenant & The Mystery of Warehouse 13
While he investigates Mustang, Lt. Havoc orders his man Falman to find him a girlfriend. Later, Mustang must investigate the haunted Warehouse 13.
Directing: Shingo Kaneko
1x38 With the River's Flow
After an argument splits up Ed, Al and Winry, Al bumps into a familiar face, and Winry decides to investigate Hughes' murder with Sheska.
1x39 Secret of Ishbal
Kimblee is named State Alchemist and heads out with the troops to Liore, where Scar is gouging out the earth with a large stone.
1x40 The Scar
After Lust and Gluttony drop in on Edward's confrontation with Scar in Liore, the seventh and final homunculus is finally revealed.
1x41 Holy Mother
With the help of Rose, the Holy Mother, Scar instructs the inhabitants of Liore not to provoke violence as they lure the military into town.
1x42 His Name Is Unknown
With Ed busy aiding the people of Liore, Scar is the only one who can help Alphonse when his armor begins transforming into an explosive compound.
1x43 The Stray Dog
While the Elric Brothers flee Liore, Winry meets a complete stranger in Resembool who is later introduced to her as Ed and Al's father.
1x44 Hohenheim of Light
As the Elrics' father, Hohenhelm of Light, sets out to confront the leader of the Homunculi, Lyra and Rose find a secret stairway in an old church.
1x45 A Rotted Heart
A complex and entangled history reveals itself as Van Hohenheim of Light battles Dante, the leader of the Homunculi.
1x46 Human Transmutation
The brothers are in danger when they become separated. Ed returns to Dante's mansion to look for clues. Al meets with the deranged Shou Tucker.
Directed by Shigeru Ueda · Written by Sho Aikawa
1x47 Sealing the Homunculus
Wrath believes that Sloth is his real mother. Sloth battles Shou Tucker. Ed realizes that Al has been tricked by Tucker.
Directed by Shingo Kaneko · Written by Sho Aikawa
1x48 Goodbye
Armstrong declares an uprising against the Führer on the northern border while Ed, joined by Izumi, fights the remaining Homunculi in Central.
Directing: Masakazu Hashimoto · Writing: Sho Aikawa
1x49 The Other Side of the Gate
King Bradley comes home to give his son a birthday gift. Edward meets with Russell in an abandoned church. Maria and Denny arrive to support Izumi.
Directing: Tamaki Nakatsu · Writing: Sho Aikawa
1x50 Death
Edward Elric arrives in World War I after being pulled through the Gate. Roy Mustang confronts his enemy, Homunculus Pride.
Directed by Masahiro Ando · Written by Sho Aikawa
1x51 Laws and Promises Season Finale
Edward Elric realizes he must make the ultimate sacrifice if he wants to retrieve his brother from the Gate. Hawkeye breaks free from her captors.
Directing: Kenji Yasuda, Kazuki Kakuta · Writing: Sho Aikawa
Season 1 Cast
Rie KugimiyaAlphonse Elric (voice)51 episodes
Naomi WakabayashiSheska (voice)51 episodes
Nana MizukiWrath (voice)51 episodes
Miyoko AsoPinako Rockbell (voice)51 episodes
Michiko NeyaRiza Hawkeye (voice)51 episodes
Mayumi YamaguchiEnvy (voice)51 episodes
Masashi EbaraVan Hoenheim (voice)51 episodes
Junichi SuwabeGreed (voice)51 episodes
Hidekatsu ShibataKing Bradley (voice)51 episodes
Yoshino TakamoriJuliet Douglas/Sloth (voice)51 episodes
Yumi KakazuLyra (voice)51 episodes
Showko TsudaIzumi Curtis (voice)51 episodesWhere to Watch Season 1 of Fullmetal Alchemist
It is currently not available on the major streaming platforms.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does Season 1 of Fullmetal Alchemist have?
Fullmetal Alchemist Season 1 has 51 episodes.
When Did Fullmetal Alchemist Season 1 Come Out?
Aired October 4, 2003.
Where to Watch Fullmetal Alchemist Season 1
Currently not available on the major subscription platforms (availability may vary by country).
What is the best episode of Season 1?
According to the TMDB audience score, episode 1x07, "Night of the Chimera's Cry," has a 8.2.