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The Führer orders Hughes and Armstrong to use all available resources to stop the murderer. Meanwhile, to avoid being in their debt, Mustang introduces Edward and Alphonse to state alchemist Shou Tucker, the "Sewing-Life Alchemist", who obtained his credentials by creating a chimera which could understand human speech. He opens up his library ...
Fullmetal Alchemist is an anime television series loosely based on the manga of the same title by Hiromu Arakawa. [1] Set in a fictional universe in which alchemy is one of the most advanced scientific techniques, the story follows two alchemist brothers named Edward and Alphonse Elric, who want to recover parts of their bodies lost in an attempt to bring their mother back to life through alchemy.
Advised by Roy Mustang, an alchemist from the State Military, Edward becomes a State Alchemist, and starts traveling with Alphonse through the country of Amestris in order to find a way to recover their bodies. In their search, they hear of the Philosopher's Stone, a powerful alchemy artifact that the brothers can use to recover their bodies.
The Elrics decide to return to Resembool for repairs, accompanied by fellow alchemist Major Alex Louis Armstrong. They get sidetracked while accidentally running into Dr. Tim Marcoh, a former State Alchemist who went into hiding after working as a doctor during the Ishvalan War. Though Marcoh refuses to reveal the process of a Philosopher’s ...
This is a list of anime based on video games. It includes anime that are adaptations of video games or whose characters originated in video games. Many anime (Japanese animated productions usually featuring hand-drawn or computer animation) are based on Japanese video games , particularly visual novels and JRPGs .
Depiction of Mary the Jewess, considered the first non-fictitious Western alchemist. From Michael Maier's Symbola Aurea MensaeDuodecim Nationum (1617) An alchemist is a person versed in the art of alchemy. Western alchemy flourished in Greco-Roman Egypt, the Islamic world during the Middle Ages, and then in Europe from the 13th to the 18th ...
The Shinto god of fortune in war and battles and leader of the Seven Lucky Gods. He was initially chosen as one of the Gods' Fighters, chosen to fight in Round 6 against Buddha, before he fused with the other Lucky Gods to create Zerofuku. Ebisu (恵比寿, Ebisu) The Shinto god of fortune in fishing and trading and member of the Seven Lucky ...
A "slap in the face" is a common idiom, dating back to the late 1800s, that means to rebuke, rebuff or insult. [ 12 ] In his 2004 text The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body , anthropologist Desmond Morris defines what he calls the "cheek slap," which he describes as "the classic action of a lady responding to the unwelcome attentions of a ...