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Fullmetal Alchemist
« on: April 19, 2006, 12:42:03 AM »
Has anyone here ever heard of Fullmetal Alchemist? It's a manga (Japanese comic) and anime series, and it's awesome. Here's a summary for those of you who know nothing about it:

Alchemy: the mystical power to alter the natural world; something between magic, art, and science. When two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, dabbled in this power to grant their dearest wish, one of them lost an arm and a leg... and the other became nothing but a soul locked into a body of living steel. Now Edward is an agent of the government, a slave of the military-alchemical complex, using his unique powers to obey orders... even to kill. Except his powers aren't unique. The world has been ravaged by the abuse of alchemy. And in pursuit of the ultimate alchemical treasure, the Philosopher's Stone, their enemies are even more ruthless than they are...

(Thus reads the back cover the Japanese comic's first-volume English translation.)

The anime can be viewed on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim at 11:30 PM and again at 2:30 AM on Saturday nights; the manga can be bought at any major bookstore (look for it in the Graphic Novel section amidst the other manga). There are also two action RPG videogames available for the PlayStation 2: Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel and Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Curse of the Crimson Elixer.

If anyone would like me to do so, I can type up a script for the first two issues of the manga, to give you a sneak peek at the story of FMA.

The official website is here.
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Fullmetal Alchemist
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2006, 04:24:57 PM »
*interesting sorda*
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Re: Fullmetal Alchemist
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2006, 03:42:29 PM »
I have seen the movie of it for someone who has never seen the series it was confusing but intriguing. I find animae interesting but some people are obssesed. One pause I have on the show is that it gets awful close to the line of the science/occult magic stuff which bible frowns upon. But I am just one guy I dont know that much about it. I was grossed out however when gluttony chomps rage in half  the blood spewing everwhere did make my stomach turn. But over all an intriguing show
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Re: Fullmetal Alchemist
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2006, 09:43:32 AM »
I like the manga better than the anime.
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Re: Fullmetal Alchemist
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2008, 11:43:42 PM »
Jesusboy, it's ok.  Well, I think it is anyway.  Basically, this is what is happening, the world that the anime takes place in is "Shamballa" a mythical kingdom that exists in Buddhist myth.  Shamballa is treated as a sort of alternate dimension, and in this dimension the souls of the dead can be harnessed to power unnatural transmutations, Alchemy.  Fortunately, this setting seems to be contemporaneous with the World Wars.  Thus, lots of souls.

So not pagan.  Just not Christian.  Though the series does suggest a christianity-like (ok, not just -like) once existed in Shamballa, and it plays a marginally important role later on.
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Re: Fullmetal Alchemist
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2008, 04:59:10 AM »
I'm a fan of FMA, myself. I've collected thirteen volumes of the manga and have the "Season 1, part 1" box set. Both are good for their own charms. I like the anime more, simply because I'm a television kind of person.
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