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䓤Îåb½ðÐgŽŸ [Hagane no Renkinjutsushi] #21
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 21
A diabolical trap is set for President Bradley... If he is? assassinated, a power vacuum will open that Mustang and his allies will be more than happy to fill. Then, while Ed is?reunited with someone from his past, Al is separated from his body - his proxy armor body! Now who is filling his heavy?metal shoes...?
Plus, take a break from all the alchemical intrigue and homunculus backstabbing at the annual?Resembool Spring Sheep Festival!
Plus, take a break from all the alchemical intrigue and homunculus backstabbing at the annual?Resembool Spring Sheep Festival!
176 pages, Paperback
First published December 22, 2008
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Hiromu Arakawa
322?books2,812?followersHiromu Arakawa (author: »Ä´¨ºë) is a Japanese manga artist, best known for Fullmetal Alchemist (¸Ö¤Îåb½ðÊõʦ Hagane no renkinjutsushi).
Her real name is Hiromi Arakawa (»Ä´¨ºëÃÀ).
Arakawa was born and raised on a dairy farm in Hokkaid¨.
She thought of being a manga artist since she was little. After graduating high school, she took oil painting classes while working on her family's farm. During that time, she also created d¨jinshi manga with her friends and drew yonkoma for a magazine. After eight years she moved to T¨ky¨ and started out as assistant writer for Hiroyuki Et¨.
Her debut as manga artist is in 1999 with STRAY DOG. In 2001 she started working on her famous and award winning series Fullmetal Alchemist, that soon gets a successful anime adaptation.
Other works include Silver Spoon (ãy¤Î³× Silver Spoon, Gin no saji Silver Spoon).
Her real name is Hiromi Arakawa (»Ä´¨ºëÃÀ).
Arakawa was born and raised on a dairy farm in Hokkaid¨.
She thought of being a manga artist since she was little. After graduating high school, she took oil painting classes while working on her family's farm. During that time, she also created d¨jinshi manga with her friends and drew yonkoma for a magazine. After eight years she moved to T¨ky¨ and started out as assistant writer for Hiroyuki Et¨.
Her debut as manga artist is in 1999 with STRAY DOG. In 2001 she started working on her famous and award winning series Fullmetal Alchemist, that soon gets a successful anime adaptation.
Other works include Silver Spoon (ãy¤Î³× Silver Spoon, Gin no saji Silver Spoon).
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July 20, 2020
The Promised Day is at hand! All pieces are in place and the final play now begins.
It only now occurs to me just how slow-paced this story has been up until now. You have a few fights here and there, but also a great deal of mystery, character development, exposition, season with horror to taste. Sometimes we've gone a volume or two without anything truly significant happening, and skipping days or even weeks entirely casually and with no need of commenting about it. It's all been on a very slow boil.
Here it changes. The final quarter of the story all takes place in just a day or two. The battle is joined on several different stages at the same time. Champions on both sides are locked in mortal struggle. Plans and counter-plans set in motion like domino pieces. A build-up twenty volumes and many centuries in the making finally pays off, and it will not relent for a long time.
This one mostly focuses itself in Pride's efforts to capture some of their stray human sacrifices, in so doing solidifying Father's plan while crippling the heroic efforts to thwart it. It's a chaotic yet well-paced battle scene with its twists and turns and new allies showing up, and we're not yet even done with it as the volume ends! I think it might actually have stretched out a little bit too long, in places, but these things can take a while when your foe is immortal and you have a lot of side characters to give spotlight to.
Other than that there's a couple big explosions going on here and there, the return of some of Mustang's men from the war of Ishval (I liked these guys maybe more than I should have), and sideboob. It's a shame about Winry sitting out the final battle, but she's more maintenance and support anyway.
It only now occurs to me just how slow-paced this story has been up until now. You have a few fights here and there, but also a great deal of mystery, character development, exposition, season with horror to taste. Sometimes we've gone a volume or two without anything truly significant happening, and skipping days or even weeks entirely casually and with no need of commenting about it. It's all been on a very slow boil.
Here it changes. The final quarter of the story all takes place in just a day or two. The battle is joined on several different stages at the same time. Champions on both sides are locked in mortal struggle. Plans and counter-plans set in motion like domino pieces. A build-up twenty volumes and many centuries in the making finally pays off, and it will not relent for a long time.
This one mostly focuses itself in Pride's efforts to capture some of their stray human sacrifices, in so doing solidifying Father's plan while crippling the heroic efforts to thwart it. It's a chaotic yet well-paced battle scene with its twists and turns and new allies showing up, and we're not yet even done with it as the volume ends! I think it might actually have stretched out a little bit too long, in places, but these things can take a while when your foe is immortal and you have a lot of side characters to give spotlight to.
Other than that there's a couple big explosions going on here and there, the return of some of Mustang's men from the war of Ishval (I liked these guys maybe more than I should have), and sideboob. It's a shame about Winry sitting out the final battle, but she's more maintenance and support anyway.
June 8, 2020
4 of 5 stars
March 11, 2021
I don't think I have mentioned how much I enjoy Arakawa's silly humorous interjections throughout the series. No matter how heavy or action-filled events are, someone will always take a moment to say something or do something that is just so dumb in the moment that you need to laugh. I always look forward to the little gag strips thrown into the Extras section at the end of the book too.
March 10, 2022
4.5
¡°I want to bring back the dead.
I want money.
I want women.
I want to protect this world.
These thoughts all come from the same place, our ID. In other words, they¡¯re our truest desires".
Me equivoqu¨¦ en el tomo anterior. En este tomo donde comienza el cl¨ªmax final, b¨¢sicamente porque la autora mismo lo ha dicho que con este tomo comenzaba la cuenta atr¨¢s.
"Humans are truly beyond salvation".
Sinceramente es pasar cada p¨¢gina y esta todo tan tenso que me est¨¢ dando hasta ansiedad (bueno, me lo estoy buscando yo sola, tambi¨¦n lo digo. Adem¨¢s, las otras lecturas que tengo tampoco ayudan).
"We have a one-way ticket to the battefield. If we fail, we can never come back which is why there is only one order I can give to you all. DON¡¯T DIE."
Lo ¨²nico que s¨¦ es que me niego a bajarle menos de 4 estrellas y media. Se merecen estas estrellas y punto. Adem¨¢s, ese final me ha dejado loca.
"Its so nice to be back in the light."
¡°I want to bring back the dead.
I want money.
I want women.
I want to protect this world.
These thoughts all come from the same place, our ID. In other words, they¡¯re our truest desires".
Me equivoqu¨¦ en el tomo anterior. En este tomo donde comienza el cl¨ªmax final, b¨¢sicamente porque la autora mismo lo ha dicho que con este tomo comenzaba la cuenta atr¨¢s.
"Humans are truly beyond salvation".
Sinceramente es pasar cada p¨¢gina y esta todo tan tenso que me est¨¢ dando hasta ansiedad (bueno, me lo estoy buscando yo sola, tambi¨¦n lo digo. Adem¨¢s, las otras lecturas que tengo tampoco ayudan).
"We have a one-way ticket to the battefield. If we fail, we can never come back which is why there is only one order I can give to you all. DON¡¯T DIE."
Lo ¨²nico que s¨¦ es que me niego a bajarle menos de 4 estrellas y media. Se merecen estas estrellas y punto. Adem¨¢s, ese final me ha dejado loca.
"Its so nice to be back in the light."
November 18, 2018
How can a few stop the overwhelming odds of evil? Here in FMA Vol. 21, Hiromu Arakawa brilliantly and methodically answers that question with a resounding message that beating the odds can be done with the right planning and teamwork.
What I love about this volume is how masterfully the chess pieces are out in place, with both sides so full of themselves as the ones who will emerge victorious. I totally appreciate the absence of brooding and grittiness among the characters while still telling a serious and compelling story. Arakawa really doesn't hold back in this final stretch. Everything is relentless and fun.
What I love about this volume is how masterfully the chess pieces are out in place, with both sides so full of themselves as the ones who will emerge victorious. I totally appreciate the absence of brooding and grittiness among the characters while still telling a serious and compelling story. Arakawa really doesn't hold back in this final stretch. Everything is relentless and fun.
August 3, 2017
OH MY GOD this volume was like one massive, tense fight scene. I literally could not put it down because I was so anxious about it. The bad guys in this series are creepy but I really love them- they have powers that are balanced but also kind of scary. In this volume there were a few moments where I got a little lost in the fight scenes because a lot was happening and the panelling was a little all over the place but I don't really care too much about that because I was still able to follow most of what was going on. Also yay the brothers are reunited and Hohenheim is with them too!
June 19, 2021
This was another great volume and like continues the adventures. Ed meets up with his dad and they later find that Pride has taken control of Al's mechanical body and so its upto them to rescue him and also defeat Pride and Gluttony, meanwhile Roy prepares his team for a final assault now that the others are occupied meanwhile the big bad homunculus readies his move in central city. There are a lot of wheels turning and it was good to see brother vs brother and the drama that ensues and it shows the threat of Pride. Also loving the politics at the center of it and the characterizations. The final arc is coming!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 21, 2017
Is really General Armstrong on the same side with homunculus? Why?
October 3, 2021
From this moment forward, the story gets shaken up vigorously as the battle against Father becomes much more real. The volume mostly focuses on Pride's latest acquisition and his interference regarding Ed's group. As you'd think things seem hopeful, Pride does the unexpected to get stronger.
Yours truly,
Lashaan | Blogger and Book Reviewer
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Yours truly,
Lashaan | Blogger and Book Reviewer
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April 8, 2022
Es muy curioso como aqu¨ª s¨ª aplica la de ¡°el enemigo de mi enemigo, es mi amigo¡±, porque todos los que alguna vez sufrieron bajo las garras de aquel ¡°padre¡± que ha creado incontables hom¨²nculos, ahora unieron fuerzas con los hermanos Elric.
Inclusive su padre, Van Hohenheim, resulta ser alguien que solo daba una mala impresi¨®n, cuando en realidad buscaba sosiego de su propia existencia.
En fin, en parte de este volumen vemos a Pride controlando el cuerpo de Alphonse para despu¨¦s enfrentarse contra Greed. Aunque, como siempre, todos forman un equipo y liberan a Alphonse de ese control. De nueva cuenta Pride absorbe a Gluttony y es as¨ª como puede hacerles frente por s¨ª mismo gracias a su poderoso olfato.
Este volumen incluye los cap¨ªtulos 84 ¨C 87.
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Inclusive su padre, Van Hohenheim, resulta ser alguien que solo daba una mala impresi¨®n, cuando en realidad buscaba sosiego de su propia existencia.
En fin, en parte de este volumen vemos a Pride controlando el cuerpo de Alphonse para despu¨¦s enfrentarse contra Greed. Aunque, como siempre, todos forman un equipo y liberan a Alphonse de ese control. De nueva cuenta Pride absorbe a Gluttony y es as¨ª como puede hacerles frente por s¨ª mismo gracias a su poderoso olfato.
Este volumen incluye los cap¨ªtulos 84 ¨C 87.
REVIEWS ANTERIORES:
Volumen 1 | Volumen 2 | Volumen 3 | Volumen 4 | Volumen 5 | Volumen 6 | Volumen 7 | Volumen 8 | Volumen 9 | Volumen 10 | Volumen 11 | Volumen 12 | Volumen 13 | Volumen 14 | Volumen 15 | Volumen 16 | Volumen 17 | Volumen 18 | Volumen 19 | Volumen 20
July 25, 2022
THIS WAS SO GOOD!!!
I think this is the first volume where I read it under an hour! SOOOOO intense!! And action-packed!!
I think this quote from what someone says to Scar truly reflects how all these different people with different backgrounds have come together to take down the villains:
"In order to change the world, you must first change yourself."
Truly everything about this volume was phenomenal though I was even more excited to see Greed/Lin in this volume because they are AWESOME!
Though OH MY GOODNESS AL!!! :o :o :o :o Like just no no no!!!
And then OH MY GOODNESS LANFAN!! She is EPIC!
Also Van! *sobs* I know I keep bringing him up, but my heart ached for him even more and just SO bummed I ever thought he was a villain!
Last also, Edward has really grown up! Like he just LOOKS grown up! Also I ship him and Winry so much! They are such a hoot together!!
So many spoilers I want to say in this review, but just know it is SOOOOo good and really think that we have finally come to the point where things are truly about to go down!
I think this is the first volume where I read it under an hour! SOOOOO intense!! And action-packed!!
I think this quote from what someone says to Scar truly reflects how all these different people with different backgrounds have come together to take down the villains:
"In order to change the world, you must first change yourself."
Truly everything about this volume was phenomenal though I was even more excited to see Greed/Lin in this volume because they are AWESOME!
Though OH MY GOODNESS AL!!! :o :o :o :o Like just no no no!!!
And then OH MY GOODNESS LANFAN!! She is EPIC!
Also Van! *sobs* I know I keep bringing him up, but my heart ached for him even more and just SO bummed I ever thought he was a villain!
Last also, Edward has really grown up! Like he just LOOKS grown up! Also I ship him and Winry so much! They are such a hoot together!!
So many spoilers I want to say in this review, but just know it is SOOOOo good and really think that we have finally come to the point where things are truly about to go down!
October 25, 2020
We have a one-way ticket to the battlefield. If we fail, we can never come back. Which is why there¡¯s only one order I can give to you all. Don¡¯t die.
como que me quedan 16 cap¨ªtulos? ???
como que me quedan 16 cap¨ªtulos? ???
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July 12, 2024Alfons Elrik u samurajskom oklopu je bio pravi *chef¡¯s kiss* za sam kraj ovog broja ¡°Alhemi?ara¡±.
August 29, 2024
- it seems like all of a sudeen, ed is looking more like an adult now and he even got taller!
- pride is really terrifying
- pride is really terrifying
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December 20, 2023PRIDE TIME LETS GOOOOO
November 8, 2009
Fullmetal Alchemist has consistently been among my favorite series to follow, and in these last few volumes, my sentiments haven't changed. This latest volume has it all - action, humor, suspense. Arakawa mentions at the beginning of the book that with these chapters, her story is entering its final stretch. I can't wait to see what's going to happen, but I'm going to be really sad when it's all over. Without a doubt the best shounen I've read or will probably read in a long, long time.
August 26, 2016
I don't love Ed, but I love Ed's coat.
October 8, 2020
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 21 continues where the previous tank¨bon left off and contains the next four chapters (84¨C87) of the on-going manga series.
In Central, several soldiers, including Colonel Roy Mustang and his subordinates, prepare to defeat Father by destroying the train where Bradley is situated. Edward Elric meets Van Hohenheim, his father, again and this time the latter tells him his story with Father.
Meanwhile, Pride kidnaps Alphonse Elric and takes control of his armor using his ability to control shadows to attack Edward's group along with Gluttony. However, they are stopped by Fu and Lan Fan. Edward's group is then able to overpower Pride, who eventually loses control of Alphonse. As a result, Pride eats Gluttony to absorb his Philosopher's Stone and become stronger.
This tank¨bon is written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. The relationship between Van Hohenheim and Father is further established, while the battle against Father is heightened as the military prepares an all-out attack on him. Meanwhile, the mechanism of Pride continues as he takes over Alphonse Elric's body to attack his brother.
All in all, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 21 is a wonderful continuation to a series that seems really intriguing and I can't wait to read more.
In Central, several soldiers, including Colonel Roy Mustang and his subordinates, prepare to defeat Father by destroying the train where Bradley is situated. Edward Elric meets Van Hohenheim, his father, again and this time the latter tells him his story with Father.
Meanwhile, Pride kidnaps Alphonse Elric and takes control of his armor using his ability to control shadows to attack Edward's group along with Gluttony. However, they are stopped by Fu and Lan Fan. Edward's group is then able to overpower Pride, who eventually loses control of Alphonse. As a result, Pride eats Gluttony to absorb his Philosopher's Stone and become stronger.
This tank¨bon is written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. The relationship between Van Hohenheim and Father is further established, while the battle against Father is heightened as the military prepares an all-out attack on him. Meanwhile, the mechanism of Pride continues as he takes over Alphonse Elric's body to attack his brother.
All in all, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 21 is a wonderful continuation to a series that seems really intriguing and I can't wait to read more.
November 17, 2022
Dec¨ªa el otro d¨ªa que la sensaci¨®n era que la trama estaba a punto desbocarse. Abrir el tomo y ver que le autore dice exactamente lo mismo en la solapa ha sido gracioso xD.
Y... uau. Me ha gustado mucho. Qu¨¦ tensi¨®n, qu¨¦ cliffhangers, que manera de leer pegado al tomo, esperando a saber un poco m¨¢s. Qu¨¦ pelos de punta pone Selim.
Y... uau. Me ha gustado mucho. Qu¨¦ tensi¨®n, qu¨¦ cliffhangers, que manera de leer pegado al tomo, esperando a saber un poco m¨¢s. Qu¨¦ pelos de punta pone Selim.
August 6, 2017
Gran rientro di Lan Fan e la guerriglia di Mustang prende il via.
September 18, 2017
YOU CAN NOT LEAVE ME HANGING LIKE THAT.
March 3, 2021
Fun installment. We're getting to the point in the series (only 6 books left!) where everything is coming to a crisis. And all of the players¡ªincluding ones I don't remember as well¡ªare showing up again.
March 22, 2021
Well! We are in the end game now!
December 13, 2021
9/10
Ooohhh my boooooysss ????
Ooohhh my boooooysss ????
January 15, 2022
Whew, Hohenheim looked very cool when he was younger! ? Aww and he really loved Trisha¡ ??
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 18, 2022
Why are lin and his psychotic "friend" becoming my favorite characters? I think it's just bc he's a great foil to ed
April 30, 2023
And that's why kids terrify me.
June 21, 2023
MI AMMAZZO MI VOGLIO AMMAZZARE
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August 29, 2023i¡¯m STRESSED
October 25, 2023
Pride seems to be the strongest of the homunculi
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