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Netflix Notice: Fullmetal Alchemist
My new obsession lately has been a rather old series called Fullmetal Alchemist. I found the show while stumbling around my Netflix instant queue. The cover was interesting enough and although I’m not a huge fan of anime, this looked different somehow. I was pleasantly surprised at what I found. This is a GREAT series! It immediately sucked me in and I’ve been craving episodes ever since.
[The Elric brothers, Edward (left) and Alphonse (right), spar on occasion to hone their fighting skills.]
Fullmetal Alchemist is the story of two “highly gifted” brothers and their mission to get their bodies back. That’s right, their bodies were taken away from them when they tried to use Alchemy (the science of deconstructing and reconstructing matter) to try and resurrect their late mother. The “transmutation” of humans is a taboo in their land and they find out just how dangerous it can be when their transmutation goes horribly wrong and their own bodies are deconstructed. Check out the short clip from episode 1 at the end of this post.
