Books by Hiromu Arakawa
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review 1: Ed has started to bother me lately. He used to just be a bit insensitive, but he's getting just plain mean. He wants to accomplish certain goals, and although we've spent the last ten books talking about how he doesn't want anyone to get hurt helping him, he doesn't care who he i...
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review 1: Here we are with the penultimate volume of this series. Everything is coming to a head, the build up of years of storytelling coming together at last, and the execution of it all is fantastic. Fullmetal Alchemist has become the standard that I measure great shounen by: well dev...
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review 1: Like I said in my thought on the previous volume: Spies and traitors on either side, working their way to the heart of the mystery. And this time it involves taking the Philospher's stone from a Homunculus. In an attempt to protect her Mei and the depowered Homunculus are sent ba...
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review 1: While this antepenultimate volume does feature some great action, like the previous ones, the true goal of this volume is to bring the major characters together for the final confrontation. As such, the plot movement gets in the way of character development sidelining most of our...
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review 1: The action continues to ramp up in this volume. Pride has broken out of the prison that Father has put him in, leaving Al and his allies to try and defeat him. Meanwhile Colonel Mustang has met up with Eric and his allies, helping them dispatch some of the soulless soldiers, bu...
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review 1: Fullmetal Alchemist just ate up the first two months of 2014 for me.I did read other stuff in there, for sure -- I fell into a pattern of reserving the next 3-6 volumes of this at the library then reading another book until they came in -- but since the Christmas party where a fr...
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review 1: This is the best manga and anime I have seen and read yet. It teaches you so many valuable life lessons, such as the concept of equivalent exchange. I also love the art work it is amazing. I also love the characters in the manga and how they progress as the manga continued. My fa...
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review 1: There isn't a whole lot of action in this volume as compared to the previous one. Instead, characterization is the focus. The Elric brothers are fleshed out through Al's struggle with his identity and the extended flashback of when they first left their hometown to be trained. ...
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review 1: Ahh Hachiken! This manga gives insight into Japan's agricultural sector through the eyes of a boy from the city. A lot of Hachiken's views are similar to mine when it comes to livestock and animals in general. I'd love to hear my father's views on the topics brought up in the man...
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review 1: Finally part of Hohenheim's role in the story is revealed - and I love the part that tells his backstory.This story never let's you rest. There is so much goign on and still it never feels as if Arakawa-sensei forgets about characters or stories. I love the way the plot thickens ...
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review 1: RAMBLING THOUGHTS, BECAUSE SOMETIMES CBF.SPOILERS BTW.I didn't realised I had already finished this, the app I was reading it on didn't tell me I had moved onto a different volume. Buuut anyway, we had a flashback in this volume!! I love the flashbacks where we get to see Ed and ...
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review 1: Everything is building to an epic conclusion!After I finish everything, I may work my way through the series again so that I can see how the continuity holds up when I'm reading them closer together.At the rate that things are happening, it is hard to remember what has happened p...
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review 1: I FINISHEEEEEEED. It took me a long time, but life happens, I couldn't read all the time. But now, here we are. 109 chapters later.I'm so nostalgic about Fullmetal Alchemist. It was the first anime that I watched that wasn't from my childhood. And the manga was just as amazing. I...
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review 1: Pride has consumed Gluttony making the child-like homunculus supremely dangerous until Alphonse comes up with a plan. Unfortunately this plan means he and Ed and their father have to separate. Ed and Hohenheim head to Central to find Father. In the meantime both Olivia and her m...
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review 1: I have to admit that I didn't care for this instalment quite as much. It wasn't bad - but it didn't stand out. I find with this series I'm either blown away or kind of 'meh' about each volume. There's a lot of set up here as everyone gets organizes for the finals few chapters in ...
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review 1: The very first thing I noticed when picking up my copy of Volume 18 is how differently Ed is drawn on the cover. He is growing up! I also noticed throughout the volume that several of the characters are being drawn just a bit older than they were before. Many of their actions als...
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review 1: The finale continues in Volume 24 as Hohenheim confronts the dwarf in the flask, now a powerful homunculus striving for more, hoping to end this last battle before it has a chance to truly begin. The surprise Hohenheim has up his sleeve is both awe inspiring amazing and completel...
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review 1: Full Metal Alchemist is about Edward Elric and his little brother Alphonse trying to restore their bodies. When they were both young, their father left them without a warning and their mother died from a disease. Because of that, the boys decided to learn alchemy in order to brin...
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review 1: All done. No more FMA. *fangirl sigh*The ending was everything this reader was hoping for. Beautiful sacrifice and parting message, and thorough resolution. No strings were left untied, and I found all the conclusions to be satisfactory from both a plot and character developm...
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review 1: ... I Love Fullmetal Alchemist. Favourite manga. This was such an amazing end, so much suspense! I was so nervous as they were fighting the dwarf in the flask! and become almost crazy as the book disappeared and they continued to fight it! I almost cried soooo many times as I rea...
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review 1: Only started reading it because I saw Hiromu Arakawa's name on it and how short it is. So far, not regretting the choice at all. The only complaints I have are that Laila was used as a hostage (which is pretty lame to begin with) twice in one volume. Also, I'm really disappointed...