My addiction continues!

[oyceter]

Some very nice person at work was thanking me for doing something and gave me a gift certificate (options were B&N, Starbucks, Jamba Juice, something else I don't remember because I immediately gravitated toward BOOKSBOOKSBOOKS).

And now, I have gone way out of my way to the nearest B&N. Instead of doing something practical and buying something to fill in the many gaping holes in my manga collection, I have instead started yet another new series.

But! It was Fullmetal Alchemist vol. 1, the manga! I flipped it open, and it was Ed and Al, and I could not resist and walked out with a giant smile on my face.

This show has eaten my braaaaaaaaains!

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[telophase.livejournal.com]

The differences between the manga and the book are cool - after book 7 or so, they veer way off from each other. So don't assume that anyone's who's died in the anime stays alive in the manga or anyone who survives in the anime escaped death in the manga. XD It's almost like reading a totally unrelated series. :D

And they arrange events differently, too.

[octopedingenue]

It's almost like reading a totally unrelated series.

I concur! Which is why I don't feel too bad that I adore the anime and the manga leaves me cold--lalala, pick your own canon!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I like the manga - if the anime didn't exist, I'd still be reading the manga - but the anime is OMG AUUGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!! and the manga is "Ooh!"

oyceter: there's also about 3 or so light novels in the FMA series translated and available. :)

the icon is proof!

[octopedingenue]

I am very happy that the anime took the jump and plotted out its own separate storyline tangent from the beginning instead of sticking to the manga and putting out years of filler as the manga catches up, a la Naruto. You piss off some fans of the manga, but you get a storyline that's very tight and bam-bam-bam from start to finish. (And OPs/EDs of "this is so spoilery in retrospect" DOOM.)

Also, manga!Scar = not hot. anime!Scar = HOT. End of story!

Yes! The anime adapted some elements from the novels as well, oyceter: Russell & Fletcher Tringham (the Plant Alchemy brothers / the fake Ed & Al clones) are from the Land of Sand novel and don't appear in the manga.

It is very good I am too lacking in time/funds to buy video game equipment. I spent about 15 minutes playing as Ed on one of the FMA games on an instore-console, and I about fangirled myself into a heart attack from getting to blow stuff up with alchemy and from Al running up and yelling at me/Ed in-game for getting too far ahead of him. "Bad nii-san!"

Re: the icon is proof!

[oyceter]

Scar is not hot in the manga? How can this be?!

OMG I never buy video games but now I am tempted to find someone who does just so I can get video game Al to scold Ed that is the cutest thing ever and my brain may have just exploded again.

Re: the icon is proof!

[octopedingenue]

Manga!Scar has flashes of gorgeousness Exhibit A), but most of the time he is much more scowly and grim-looking and does not make my knees weak with his shoulders as a proper Scar should.

I KNOW! And I have no patience to play video games either, but I am so tempted to just buy the games and pester someone to play them for me on their game console and call me out of my book whenever Ed & Al do something cute.

Re: the icon is proof!

[oyceter]

Oh. He is indeed very scowly and grimacy and not in a sexy way at all.

Also, I opened that last link here at work and nearly fell off my chair. Mmmm guh.

Darn. Now I'm sad my game-playing ex is an ex, since he is the only person I know who I could pester to play games for me.

[octopedingenue]

Also, in the Broken Angel video game (I have never played it, but flutingfrenzy kindly keeps me updated on FMA things!): Roy meets Hawkeye secret-like because she is going undercover, in an outfit that Roy finds way more entertaining than she does.

(Now you get to be one of the people I randomly FMA picspam! AWESOME.)

[oyceter]

EEEEE! So cute! Chibi!Lust! Hawkeye in kimono and Roy with dog on head! Little Ed and Al!

I also love Browncoat Ed from below!

[oyceter]

How are they? I've been avoiding most anime/manga novels for the same reasons that I avoid movie novelizations.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I read the first one, and it was okay, and got partway through the second before putting it down somewhere and losing it. My basic thoughts are that they're good for getting an Ed/Al fix, but otherwise lightweight.

They're fast reads, too. I'd suggest a trip to Barnes and Noble, a coffee, and an overstuffed chair there. :)

[oyceter]

Hrm, I feel like I could do that ;).

[octopedingenue]

Flatmates/FMA-manga-lovers gweniveeve & flutingfrenzy have reported to me that the novels are pretty meh. I will ask which if any they would recommend.

[oyceter]

Ohhhhh your flatmates love FMA too?! That rocks! I am still burbling over with it and desperately wanting to stop everyone and tell them to watch.

[octopedingenue]

Yes! I got them both into the anime as a proper crack dealer should. And now we have matching Movie!Ed & Movie!Roy plushies guarding our living room! (Both of them hated the movie, but we started speaking to each other again eventually! Browncoat!Ed conquers all.)

Everyone should watch FMA! I would watch it with you! Buuut bit of a commute.

[oyceter]

Yes! Exclamation point! I am so excited about this series even though I've already finished it!

In fact, I am really tempted to do the episode-by-episode rewatch with LJ people as kate_nepveu suggested a while back....

Mmmmmmm more FMA......

I feel if you come to Mariposa, we should squee and rewatch bits!

[oyceter]

Yes, that's the fun! I'll probably end up with a completely crack canon of my own that incorporates bits and pieces of everything.

[oyceter]

Oh cool! I shall think of it as an AU.

Honestly, right now, I just want more of the characters because wah! Ed and Al!