Questing about Full Metal Alchemist

[bigsleepj]

Whenever the people at Toriyama's World get up off their lazy butts. j/k

I'm pretty certain that they're running as fast as possible to get it 'published' on-line. Maybe they're being threatened with lawsuits...or maybe some publisher is buying their 'translation.' Oh, there I go again.

[MasterDias]

[quote="bigsleepj"]Ooooh. Aaaah. Yikes. Woohah. Mwhahahaaha! Heeheehee. Woosh! Egads!

Brilliant! I just finished reading the FMA manga volume 4. It's very dark and the odd (sort of negative) view towards religions (and its occultic take on alchemy) sort of put me off at first, but the plot and character developement is some of the best I've seen in cinema, literature or graphic novels.

The 'secret' to what made the Philosopher stone was an astounding piece of plot developement. It's the kind of thing I like to put in my (extremely bad) attempts of literature]
Occultic take on alchemy?

Despite the rather gruesome secret of the Philosopher's Stone, alchemy is treated as a kind of science. That's how I took it anyway.
What is that rule that keeps coming up in FMA? 'Every gain must have an equal loss' or something similar to that...

[bigsleepj]

Occultic take on alchemy?

Despite the rather gruesome secret of the Philosopher's Stone, alchemy is treated as a kind of science. That's how I took it anyway.
What is that rule that keeps coming up in FMA? 'Every gain must have an equal loss' or something similar to that...

Off course, the term "occult" varies from person to person. The drawing of the circles on the ground and Ed transporting Al's spirit into a suit of armor reminded me of necromancy and so forth, but I'm not going to accuse the author of inspire people to become satanists or readers of Alistair Crowley. And "ever gain must have an equal loss" is nothing wrong with. Let's just say I'm finicky.