#shoco asks the void

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So is there any part of the manga where Alphonse ACTUALLY says Edward's name when talking to him, rather than Nii-san? 🤔

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The World Cup starting soon has reminded me of my Homunculi and Central related football headcanons that I've had for a while but not posted about. Temptation to talk about it... ⚽️🥅

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With episode #263, the webtoon will start chapter 98 of the manga. Only 10 chapters left to go since the webtoon started in August 2020 forget about the random purge for half a year ok. But how will that look as far as episodes go, with the chapters getting even longer?

People, get your guesses in now for what episode number the webtoon will end on. I will count this as the end of chapter 108, but will then wait and see if the bonus chapter with Al’s armour gets adapted, or the part with Hohenheim and Trisha. None of the other bonus chapters are in the webtoon so I doubt it. Maybe you’ll get a prize if you guess correctly, who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Oh yeah, I never finished unlocking all the costumes and voices on the FMA PSP game...

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For people who thought the King in King Bradley was his title and not his first name, and that his surname Bradley was actually his first name, when Selim Bradley and Mrs Bradley were introduced did you think this was a Mario Mario situation, so he’d be Bradley Bradley, or just that those weren’t their surnames either? Or something else?

btw this couldn’t happen in Japanese as it uses the English word ‘king’ because it’s his first name. The title king would be the suffix ‘-ou’ at the end of his name, after his rank Daisoutou, like the King of Xerxes is Xerxes-ou.

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I was looking at the scanlation for chapter 59, which used the original Japanese release in Shounen Gangan, rather than the later standalone volumes, and I noticed something weird.

During the creation of the Philosopher’s Stone, Barry the Chopper and the Slicer Brothers appear. Rather than the Ishvalans being shot to make them bleed, it looks like Barry is the one who injured them.

Obviously this is a mistake, as this scene is set in 1908, and Barry was only ‘executed’ sometime after 1911, so when it was published in Volume 15 Arakawa changed it to one of the soldiers using a gun instead

I wonder if having a more active role in the creation of later Philosopher’s Stones was Arakawa’s original intention for them, besides just guarding the 5th laboratory, but because they were bonded to armour so late chronologically she never got to show it, or that aspect was just removed completely.

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Father’s Day’s coming up this weekend. If anyone has any headcanon asks about Father, the early lives of the Homunculi, or anything like that, I could try and answer some :3c Could be fun

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I wonder if Berthold Hawkeye invented ignition cloth (発火布) during his flame alchemy research, or if it was something that already existed in Amestris around that time.

Maybe people used it like you would flint for making sparks, maybe they still do. Or is it just for Roy’s gloves?