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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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!