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I always read that Grumman is Riza's grandfather, and the source is on some guidebook, I can't find any screengrab of the part where it states that, I am not able to grab a copy to check for myself. I greatly appreciate it if you could verify it š
Here you go, from Perfect Guidebook 2. Heās her maternal grandfather.
Hi! Do you know if there is any kind of organized attempt to preserve FMA Mobile's content besides the story? I mean like the in-game assets with our best Amestris map ever, the amazing 3D models, the voice lines, the beautiful new artwork renders, etc. It saddens me to think that so much of this game may be permanently lost if no one sets out to preserve these assets :(
Not that I know of, unfortunately :( I would try to do it myself, but a. I have nary a clue how to do that and b. I also am extremely low on storage space on my computer and don't have enough external storage to do it either. I can only hope someone out there will pick up the mantle, but so far I don't know.
In chapter 86, how did Ed turn out the lights in the village? Did he send a deconstruction wave through the electrical wires or something? I don't think it's ever explained is it?
Honestly, I'm not sure either. Maybe he, uh... I dunno... Overloaded the circuit breakers or something? Yeah I got nothing tbh
How many months they waited to promised day?
From when?
Alright so apparently I'm way late to the party (having missed the news due to timezones), but it seems FMA Mobile will be shutting down on March 29th, 2024, after less than two years. At least it lived longer than the second Greed?
Here's the official announcement from Square Enix: https://support.jp.square-enix.com/news.php?id=18982&la=0&n=2&drt=1703664000&tag=dacb52a8c6e15caf6cf95369ffafe1e4d0f0d086
For those who may be concerned about this game becoming lost media, fortunately, all the story scenes (as far as I can tell) have been uploaded to YouTube by an account called Alex Risi Chan Gamer (no relation to me, there's just a gazillion Alexes in this world).
Obviously YouTube itself isn't exactly a beacon of permanence, so I will be looking into downloading these videos onto a physical drive for safekeeping.
Alright so apparently I'm way late to the party (having missed the news due to timezones), but it seems FMA Mobile will be shutting down on March 29th, 2024, after less than two years. At least it lived longer than the second Greed?
Here's the official announcement from Square Enix: https://support.jp.square-enix.com/news.php?id=18982&la=0&n=2&drt=1703664000&tag=dacb52a8c6e15caf6cf95369ffafe1e4d0f0d086
So are Philosopher's Stones like... kinda redundant after Scar lifts Father's restriction on Amestrian Alchemy? The whole benefit of using a PS is that you have an independent energy source that doesn't abide by "equivalent exchange". It's a lot of energy, but it's finite and we've seen them run out before. post-series, since now the entirety of the earth's tectonic energy is available, a single Alchemist practically has an unlimited energy supply. Am I missing something, or is that correct?
I would think not. I can't say I know all the details tbh, but think of it this way: Amestrian alchemists only have problems with their alchemy because of the blocks Father installed, right? But it was Father himself who made a Philosopher's Stone in Xerxes, before fucking up Amestrian alchemy. He obviously needed a reason to do that, something that couldn't be done with the raw power of the energy already available to alchemists. Also, if unblocked alchemy were equivalent to using the Philosopher's Stone, there'd surely be stories of alkahestrists doing some crazy shit, when in reality we know that the Philosopher's Stone is considered legendary and powerful in Xing as well.
Hello! The Ultimate Eye question got me thinking, what's up with some hearsay surrounding Hohenheim's Alchemy in the '03 series? There are various reddit threads that claim Hohenheim of Light transmutes... well, light. Even the FMA wiki says this for his profile, but of course, 0 citations are ever given. It seems people assume his constructs VS Dante are light-based despite looking and sounding like ice, to me anyway. Is this clarified anywhere, ever? Or is this just hearsay gone wild?
Uhhhh I haven't watched 03 in a hot minute, so I can't say for sure. I don't remember ever hearing anything like that, but to be fair 03's plot is so wild I can never seem to keep track of everything no matter how many times I rewatch it, so there's an equal possibility that this is real and I just forgot about it. I'll run through some Hohenheim episodes when I get the chance and see if anything like that comes up. I should look into getting some of the 03 guidebooks one of these days...
Hello! I wanted to ask if it was possible to quote or take a picture of the guidebook section where it says Envy is genderless? I was talking to a friend about it, and I was convinced it was canon, but they thought it was only a fandom interpretation based on Envy's appearance. I was also wondering if it comes up in several guidebooks, and if it's present in the original JP. Since I work in a translation adjacent domain, I know that translations can sometimes be... questionable...
Sure, I can't go looking for it right now but I can find it in a few days! (I'm just busy these next few days is all lol)
Alright, sorry for the wait. Hereās a photo of where itās mentioned in the English profiles book.
If youāre wondering why it says āno one knows Envyās true form,ā itās because this particular guidebook was written when the manga was still on the Dublith arc.
Unfortunately I donāt own a Japanese copy of this one, so I canāt double check what it says there. I did flip through Perfect Guidebook 2 and FMA Chronicle (both JP exclusive books), and I didnāt see any mention of gender whatsoever in regards to Envy.
Personally, I think itās reasonable to assume Envy is nonbinary, however I could have sworn this was explicitly stated in Japanese somewhere? Iāll do some digging and let you know what I find.
Hello! I wanted to ask if it was possible to quote or take a picture of the guidebook section where it says Envy is genderless? I was talking to a friend about it, and I was convinced it was canon, but they thought it was only a fandom interpretation based on Envy's appearance. I was also wondering if it comes up in several guidebooks, and if it's present in the original JP. Since I work in a translation adjacent domain, I know that translations can sometimes be... questionable...
Sure, I can't go looking for it right now but I can find it in a few days! (I'm just busy these next few days is all lol)
I have a question regarding the Ultimate Eye. This is a weird one; of all the Homunculi's special abilities, this is by far the most vague. I can't recall it ever being explained in either the manga, BroHo, or even 03, beyond just, again, very vague statements like "I can see you doing that its no use mwahaha". What does the eye even actually do? Is it clarified anywhere at all? A lot of people assume its like a slow-motion/Sharingan thing, but this is all hearsay with no citations ever given.
Honestly, I'm not sure either. I do also get the feeling it works sort of like sharingan, probably? Tomorrow I'll check the guidebooks and see if it's explained in detail at all, but off the top of my head I don't remember it ever being fully explained in the actual story.
Alright, as promised I dug out my guidebooks. Perfect Guidebook 2 has a section on the homunculi's abilities, so here's what it says about the Ultimate Eye. I've included the original Japanese for anyone who wants to double check my translation.
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So basically yeah, it's kinda like sharingan.
I have a question regarding the Ultimate Eye. This is a weird one; of all the Homunculi's special abilities, this is by far the most vague. I can't recall it ever being explained in either the manga, BroHo, or even 03, beyond just, again, very vague statements like "I can see you doing that its no use mwahaha". What does the eye even actually do? Is it clarified anywhere at all? A lot of people assume its like a slow-motion/Sharingan thing, but this is all hearsay with no citations ever given.
Honestly, I'm not sure either. I do also get the feeling it works sort of like sharingan, probably? Tomorrow I'll check the guidebooks and see if it's explained in detail at all, but off the top of my head I don't remember it ever being fully explained in the actual story.
me experiencing grad school imposter syndrome: what if linguistics isn't the right field for me, what if I'm not meant to be studying it full time
me within three days of finishing my semester:
if anyone is curious, the percentage of xingese speech bubbles for each of them is 18.3% for Ling, 9.4% for Mei, 40.5% for Lan Fan, and 30.1% for Fu
other fun facts I learned while gathering this data
Hi! I was wondering if you've heard of the Fullmetal Alchemist 20th Anniversary Book (https://www.viz.com/read/book/fullmetal-alchemist-20th-anniversary-book/product/7618?wpsrc=ANN&utm_campaign=P_FMA20_ANN_CTFA20AB_vizwebsite&utm_source=ANN&utm_medium=Display).
I'm wondering if I should buy it considering I already have FMA Chronicles, the Four-Panels comics and the complete artbook.
I have heard of it! Haven't bought it myself, though, so I can't vouch for what's in there unfortunately.
I'm so sorry I. meant to reblog soulja boy happy birthday Naruto to my personal blog whoops
Do you have any notes on the accents/dialects characters use in the Japanese version of FMA? Barry's voice is very distinctive and uses heavy slang and perhaps kansai-ben but I am not fully sure.
Hmm, I'm not sure. I'm not too terribly familiar with different dialects myself tbh. From what I seem to recall off the top of my head though, most characters in FMA just seem to speak with pretty standard generic anime dialogue.
Heyy so I just started watching fma brotherhood again w my younger sibling, who hadn't seen it before. some things I'm now noticing dont sit too well with me. i was wondering if you could maybe help give context, and you seem to be THE person to ask abt this
it's abt the countries of amestris and xerxes. It seems to be based on nazi propaganda, and I know how that sounds, but like.. blonde white people in a country that's obv Persia that had ancient occult knowledge? that's literally the ahnenerbe's whole shtick, so I hope you see where I'm coming from w this one
I tried finding answers online, but none were satisfactory. Some ppl noticed what I did, and didn't rly seem to care. Others wrote it off as a consequence of coming up with the plot as it went along, but I don't think this makes sense as irl amestris was the wife of persian king xerxes I
plus all the persian imagery and clothing and architecture associated with xerxes in fma, and I rly doubt there'd be that many references without at least knowing abt the plots and myths the nazis conceived to dehumanize ppl
Sooo idk, am I overlooking something? I've never seen the original series or read the manga, so I wouldn't be surprised
Unfortunately I don't think that's a question that can easily be answered in one post, let alone by a (mostly) white gentile like me. I do know that Amestris was originally based off England during the Industrial Revolution (Arakawa says this in the first guidebook), but that doesn't really answer anything about Xerxes, huh... Though, it is true that the Middle East is the birthplace of alchemy, so that may be part of why Xerxes is Persian inspired. Maybe? I dunno. It is obnoxious at best that they're all pale and blond though.
At the very least I don't think FMA would be like, intentionally pro-nazi given the whole plot of "military dictatorships and ethnic genocide are bad", but still, that doesn't mean it's immune to flaws and propaganda, whether intentional or not. If there's something that makes you uncomfortable, that's absolutely a discussion worth having. But I'm sorry to say I don't think there's a lot of solid information I can provide in that regard, and I don't think there's one right or wrong answer to this sort of thing. Good luck and I'm sorry that this is like... A thing that needs to be discussed at all, sigh.
I will say this though: If you're sensitive to nazi stuff, just... Just don't watch the 2003 anime tbh. It's a whole mess and a half. But it wasn't written by Arakawa, so it doesn't really have any bearing on what's going on in Brotherhood, at least.
