Fullmetal alchemist manga book9/27/2023 ![]() And boy it's such a fantastic introduction.Ī little background of the world if you haven't watched/read FMA: Think if the industrial revolution took place with alchemy (a type of magic where different elements can be manipulated). This is the volume where we are introduced to Alphonse and Edward - the Elric brothers. "If you have enough faith, you'll definitely get bigger." "The Two Alchemists" (二人の錬金術師 Futari no Renkinjutsushi) - containing one of the most memorable anime scenes of my childhood Compared to most of my "articulate" reviews, these will be a jumbled mess. Also, it's mostly me rambling and fangirling so I apologise in advance. I've decided to review each volume by chapter, as each chapter has an underlying theme that can't be ignored. It's my first time reading this series and I'm hyped! Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: Better like this review or be my slave forever instead of freely resurrecting. ![]() If you excuse me now, I´ll now really have to continue my necromancing lessons because procrastination did already cost me world domination several times. Tricky not to spoiler, so let´s just say that, instead of searching for wisdom, magicians can try to go the, not stereotypical, self destructive path towards more power. Especially imagining that beginning mechanical and magical biomedical research will become nanotech and bioengineering in real sci fi is a funny thought experiment.Īn even better manifestation of escalating evil magic than the whole dark Hogwarts concept. Although I subjectively don´t enjoy the steampunk genre so much, because it tends to be closer to fantasy than sci-fi, this visualization of an ending era and interim makes it much funnier and quicker to consume. But fantasyheads will certainly find similar or maybe even identical concepts, because it´s just so logical to pervert this kind of magic.Įarly industrialization was already dirty, bloody, and exploitative enough, but good old fantasy steampunk makes it even grittier and more disturbing. I´m quite sure that there are high and dark fantasy equivalentsīut because I haven´t read fantasy for years and not that much before that time, I don´t know for sure. If it´s useful to survive or get loads of money, booze, and boys/girls/ animal hybrid chimeras, whatever one is into, the general trend or dogma of an era is something just wrong for dirty troublemakers. To jump into the series, we get a load of background information about the not so loveable protagonist antiheroes, who are another manifestation of the big „What is evil“ question. Trope for expanding towards big wars, inner conflicts of one or some protagonists until the escalation to civil war and revolution or just a fantasy version of 1984 or The forever war unfolds. Military dictatorships are still bad, but cooler with dark fantasyĮspecially if the whole necromancing dark magic voodoo stuff is perfectly organized and integrated into a crazy, trigger happy war machine that breeds Saruman's en masse. The combination of the religious steampunk industrial complex, the degeneracy of faith, and the warmongering and greed, and the splendid protagonists make it an exceptional masterpiece. While not yet confirmed for an anime adaptation, the new manga has a serious pedigree behind it which might make it so that it will only be a matter of time before seeing the story on the screen.Not just full metal, but hardcore death Scandinavian black doom overkillĢ brothers, perversion of religion, and a perfectly finetuned magic system, it may be even a bit hardĬharacterization is top to show the struggle of the pair regarding good and evil, career or own moral codex, and many other questions this series is dealing with, more or less, under the surface. ![]() Covering the vast majority of the events that took place in the lives of the alchemist brothers, creator Hiromu Arakawa hasn't hinted at a return to the world of alchemy that has made such a mark on the anime medium, though the mangaka has continued via a new story titled Tsugai of the Underworld. Last year, Fullmetal Alchemist released two new feature-length films that were live-action and brought the theatrical series to an end. While a new anime adaptation hasn't been confirmed by any stretch of the imagination, the series remains a fan-favorite to this day and to help in celebrating the twentieth anniversary, a new collection is set to arrive in North America later this year, with new material to boot. Fullmetal Alchemist's anime adaptation first premiered in 2003, meaning its been twenty years since countless new anime viewers were introduced to the world of Edward Elric, Alphonse Elric, and a world that is populated with alchemy manipulators.
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