Their best bet was for Ed to become a state alchemist and use their resources to find the fabled “philosopher’s stone”… After giving up an arm in order to bond his brother’s soul to a hollow suit of armour, the two set out to find a way to get their bodies back to normal, Ed now supporting a metal arm and leg thanks to the process of “automail”, a field his close friend Winry excels at. Edward and Alphonse Elric, mere children, attempted to ignore this taboo in order to bring their mother back, but instead Edward lost a leg, and Alphonse lost his whole body. The one taboo among alchemists is human transmutation, bringing people back from the dead. They can create anything they desire from whatever they need, but only through the law of Equivalent Exchange, anything created must have something of equal value lost to create it. In the country of Amestris alchemists are often recruited by the military as “State Alchemists” and used for peacekeeping and war. These six episodes, titled “Fullmetal Alchemist”, “The First Day”, “City of Heresy”, “An Alchemist’s Anguish”, “Rain of Sorrows” and “Road of Hope”, respectively, aired between April 5 th and May 10 th 2009. This anime adaptation is following on an earlier attempt at an anime adaptation that was flawed due to having to diverge from the manga storyline halfway through. Well, now is the time, I’m looking forward to charting my second journey with Edward and Alphonse Elric on this blog…įullmetal Alchemist was a manga created by Hiromu Arakawa, originally released between August 2001 and June 2010. I loved it when I first watched it and picked up the blu-rays a year or two back, but wanted to wait until I was in the right mood and had forgotten as much as I could about the plot. I recently decided it was long overdue to re-watch this series.
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