Fullmetal Alchemist 11
Posted: February 22, 2007 | Author: Connie | Filed under: Fullmetal Alchemist |3 Comments »The confrontation between Ed and Hohenheim wasn’t as satisfactory as I would have liked, but apparently the plot takes a big step in the direction of getting Al’s body back, and I’m all for that. There’s some creepy business of digging up… stuff… and there’s also a rather sweet and heartfelt talk between Ed and Al. I still do feel really bad for Al, and it wasn’t really until this volume that they began mentioning things he can’t do, like sleep, eat, cry, and smile.
I could also do without this business with Scar, and this battle going on at the end of the volume I feel is just kind of taking away from what I would like to see, which is more about Al getting his body. I’m all for that right about now. I sincerely hope it’s not the last thing to happen in the series, because I would like for him to get it back and then see a face-off against the seven deadly sins.
And this was from last volume, but I was right about Pride. Hooray! He does exist! Not that it was that hard to figure out.
Now I gotta wait for the next volume like everyone else. It looks like we’ll be bimonthly until volume 14, which will be three months from 13. I can deal with a quarterly schedule now that we’re caught up with Japan, but damn, I really wanna see how this story goes and ends. I’d hate to think it’s being stretched out… which of course it is. I love it dearly now.
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The manga is up to vol 17 in Japan…running in the magazine, that is. The serialization (puttin into tankoubon) is up to 15, I think.
Yeah, when I checked, I think I saw up to volume 15, which means the English release is more-or-less caught up. Usually, it seems like English releases run at least 9 months behind a Japanese release, at the earliest… sometimes up to a year or more. I have a feeling we’re going to be keeping pace with the Japanese release on this one, probably consistently one volume behind.