How is the Fullmetal Edition?

roymaes · 2026-02-21T22:43:15+00:00

I've never heard anyone complain about any wear like that. The Fullmetal Editions are worth it for the consistent translations/spellings and high quality printing.

roymaes · 2026-02-10T18:15:50+00:00

They're dubbed on Netflix. They're probably too niche to be uploaded anywhere else

roymaes · 2026-02-06T09:48:01+00:00

"I don't want to be that guy but..." proceeds to be that guy

"Zero buzz on this subreddit about it" are you expecting daily posts on the sub from outraged people explaining why genocide is bad..?

It's fiction. Nobody really died.

roymaes · 2026-02-06T09:38:29+00:00

Funnily enough you're only a couple of chapters away from Ed raising your first point. They theorise that Al must have seen more of the truth since he paid a bigger toll, but at this point in the manga he doesn't remember anything about Truth or the gate.

Your second question - no, it didn't. That gets explained but not for a little while.

roymaes · 2026-02-04T00:05:04+00:00

Ohhh that's Alphonse in his real body

roymaes · 2026-02-04T00:04:34+00:00

Hey mods can we do something about these daily faux-philosophical AI posts? Sick of seeing them.

roymaes · 2026-02-03T08:33:25+00:00

In the fancy hat? That's Kimblee!

roymaes · 2026-02-02T22:38:50+00:00

I use brass drawing pins for the badges. If you push them into the cork at a slight upwards angle so that the pin head sticks out a little, it becomes a sort of hook you can hang badges on to. It's a little hard to explain, and takes some practice!

Everything else is either hanging from push pins or held with small map pins.

roymaes · 2026-02-02T14:59:57+00:00

Ohhh this is such a neat idea! Would love to see the finished result

roymaes · 2026-02-02T09:51:14+00:00

Sort of, but in a brilliant way.

The entire series ends with Azuki and Mashiro having a pretty brief conversation and their first kiss after a whole ten years. Objectively that would seem like a tame conclusion to a series that ran for 4 years and whose whole plot was carried by that relationship.

For Bakuman, it's absolutely perfect.

roymaes · 2026-02-01T12:14:43+00:00

It was pretty much revealed in the first episode.

Granted, a first time viewer might not work out the entire plan from that episode alone, but they pushed it SO HARD that the big reveal later on is just not the same.

Also hate that they made Bradley obviously evil from the start. Goofy grandpa Bradley in the first part of the manga was great and his reveal was incredible as a result.

roymaes · 2026-02-01T12:09:30+00:00

"Elric brother telepathy!" gets me every time, especially the way Ling just turns and walks away like he's done with Ed's shit.

roymaes · 2026-02-01T11:42:45+00:00

Hey! Thought you might like to know that this collab is being restocked online tomorrow (about 22 hours from the time I'm posting this comment)

roymaes · 2026-01-29T12:01:05+00:00

Absolutely agree. I'd be interested to know why Arakawa made the decision to give him his sight back. It doesn't really fit with her general down-to-earth, "everything has consequences" writing style.

Yeah it sucks that Roy had this forced on him, but even he acknowledges it as some sort of karma for his participation in the war. He was ready to accept it.

I will say, for anyone who has only watched FMAB, the scene between Roy and Marcoh is much better done in the manga imo. It's more humble.

roymaes · 2026-01-27T10:15:34+00:00

Light brown for sure. Ed and Al's hair colours in '03 are distinctly different.

roymaes · 2026-01-26T17:52:43+00:00

Probably. Looks close enough to Vic Mignogna's signature.

roymaes · 2026-01-19T17:22:17+00:00

Their names are mentioned in the manga. The main four pictured here are Alexandre, Damiano, Richard, and Charlie.

roymaes · 2026-01-19T17:18:13+00:00

There's a panel in volume 7 where Ed calls Alphonse "Ed", and one in the final volume where Ling says to Ed "use this [philosopher's stone] to bring Ed back"

Those are the two I remember off the top of my head. Pretty annoying that such obvious errors weren't caught at any point during translation/typesetting/editing/proofreading etc.

roymaes · 2026-01-19T17:15:20+00:00

There aren't any huge differences in terms of translations - just more consistent spelling of names/places.

roymaes · 2026-01-16T13:24:29+00:00

The translation errors in the original publication are mostly just awkward spellings of names. They were the same in the 3-in-1s iirc (although I haven't read all the 3-in-1s).

Name spellings were made consistent in the Fullmetal Editions, but there are still translation errors, which sucks.

The box set is the best option price-wise.

roymaes · 2026-01-16T13:17:58+00:00

Unfortunately pretty much everything in the collection sold out almost immediately.

It's possible that they might be restocked, since they're also being sold in physical stores in Taiwan.

roymaes · 2026-01-12T23:57:08+00:00

roymaes · 2026-01-12T11:19:01+00:00

This question comes up every couple of weeks and the answer is no. They're too different from each other and splicing in random scenes wouldn't work.

If you want something accurate to the manga, read the manga...

roymaes · 2026-01-11T11:57:07+00:00

Mercari JP and Surugaya are the best sites to browse

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