12/6/2023 0 Comments Fullmetal alchemist manga book![]() ![]() Hiromu Arakawa is such a great writer! She shows that there is wisdom in the young and naivety in the old. It shows that no matter what our beliefs, we can all be asses and holier-than-thou about it. What I love love love about this chapter is that it critcises the hubris of both religious people and atheists. After seeing my friend just lose her boyfriend so tragically and at such a young light, (and having a boyfriend of four years) I finally understand Rose's desperation. Rose is an innocent girl who helps Cornello so that she can get her boyfriend back with the power of the philosopher's stone. Cornello reportedly has the philosopher's ring, a ring of restoration - a ring that can bring people back from the dead. ![]() So there's this asshole called Cornello who belongs to the house of the sun god, Leto. Edward's height often gets made fun of, which is always so much fun to read and watch. Still love that everyone assumes Alphonse is older. I can't wait to be introduced to old favourites, but for now just seeing the brothers again is a treat. This chapter is all about corrupted religious institutions and their effect on people. 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. 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. ![]()
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