A great continuation to a great series

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	• Fullmetal Alchemist, Volume 3 Hiromu Arakawa VIZ Media LLC, 2005 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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The best one yet

Compared to volume two and one this is the best Fma yet. It is all I expected and then some! It has action, and all the suspence any manga reader would want. If you like good manga you should definitley buy this manga.(..)read the preveiw i know you'll love it like i do.

good book

this was an easy purchase and a great read for manga lovers, i love the series.

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A great continuation to a great series

Volume 3 of Fullmetal Alchemist is absolutely wonderful. This addition finally brings in some characters from the Elric brothers' past, as well as enlightens the reader as to some of the horrors of their past.

The state alchemist serial killer from volume 2 is still on the loose, so the brothers are accompanied at all times by body guards. Those of you who have read 1 and 2, or are at all familiar with the show will understand how much the brothers definately do not appreciate that.

They continue to get into trouble as is always the case for the two of them, and there are some fun battle scenes in the last chapter. The last chapter of this volume, The Definition of Human, is the opening to a terribly sad arc which we will get to read in volume 4. I won't spoil it here, but I will say this chapter has some great battle scenes and some more plot twists are revealed for us to enjoy.

There are some wonderful extras at the end of the manga, like there usually are, and this volume also gives us a preview of the Fullmetal Alchemist book coming out soon entitled, "Fullmetal Alchemist Volume 1: The Land of Sand". It looks good! (This is a novel, not a manga, so I imagine there will not be any fun pictures accompanying the text). So check that out as well, and as always enjoy the incredibly entertaining artwork!

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CAN YOU REPLACE MY ARM GRANNY?

After barely escaping with their lives from the murderous Scar, Ed and Al return to their hometown to get Ed's automail arm replaced. Al is in pretty bad shape too and has to be carried by their bodyguard, the overly vain and refugee from the Village People, Major Armstrong. The best workers of automail in the world are old friends Granny Rockbell and her granddaughter Winry, who is so happy to see Ed that she hits him in the head with a flying wrench! They're in a bit of a rush to get back to Central to find the notes of Dr. Marcoh, which contains the notes of his secret research of the Philsopher's Stone. But what are the kids gonna do after they find out that the library where the notes were hidden was burned down by the Homonculi?

Volume 3 of FullMetal Alchemist seemed to be missing much of the fluid action and emotional intimacy of the first two volumes. There was a bit too much goofiness and too little grit, with comedy undercutting some serious issues. Major Armstrong and Winry supplied the lion's share of the laughs while Ed and Al were a bit more distant as their quest for the secret of the Stone draws to an end. I think the anime does a much better job of developing the characters. Towards the end of this volume, the manga seems to get back on track.

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