

This will aid in their search to figure out how to get Al’s body back. They train for a year and then accept the position since being a state alchemist gives them access to information and resources normal men cannot access. Mustang first meeting the Elric brothers and offering them a job as State Alchemists. Al cannot remember anything due to the shock of losing his body. During the botched attempt, Ed sees the “creator” of all things and is shown “the truth.” This greatly expands Ed’s alchemy powers allowing him to perform alchemy of incredible feats without a rune circle. There they attempt to bring their mother back to life. We then witness the brothers completing their training and go home. They survive the 30 days and when they get picked up by Izumi, they find out that the panther man was one of her friends sent there to “train” them and watch over them. Every day they struggle to find food and then half-starved they have to fight this strange panther man each day. While they are on the island, they fight this strange man wearing a panther head and cape. If they survive then Izumi will take them on as her students and train them in alchemy.

My Take: This volume begins with the Elric brothers being left on an island for 30 days. Now, hardened by years of military training, Edward and Alphonse have returned to the woman, Izumi, who first taught them alchemy…but can she help them, or even forgive them? But when they tried to use their newfound skills to resurrect their dead mother, they broke a taboo and encountered something more terrifying than death itself.

Their Take: The origin of the Elric Brothers! Once, Edward and Alphonse Elric were willing to do anything to become alchemists. Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, French Guiana, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Malta, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U.S.Fullmetal Alchemist Fullmetal Editions Review with Inside Look of Vol.
