FMA: Brotherhood Episode 13

Let's see if I do this right... Episode 13, Beasts of Dublith is available on Funi's website now.

FMA: Brotherhood - Ep. 7: Hidden Truths

Its Thursday, so that means a new FMA:B is up. Enjoy!

FMA: Brotherhood - Ep. 5: Rain of Sorrows

Well, it's up. Give it a watch when y'all can.

Hope I can fit it in before my final today...

Fullmetal Alchemist 2 - Trailer

Well...barely.

It really doesn't show much. What is shown is a shot of Ed, of Al (in armor), and of Mustang, and a final shot of Ed and Al. The character designs are a bit different from the previous series.

Fullmetal Alchemist 2009 - CM1 @ Yahoo! Video

What's said is apparently:

"New training … a fullmetal artificial limb, a body of armor … the brothers' journey begins. Fullmetal Alchemist: April 2009 Training. In this palm, is there hope or despair?"

Y'know, while thinking about this, I realized that my memory of some things FMA related has gotten rusty. Like, I had to actually sit and remember for a moment what the name was for what the alchemists did (transmuting, transmutation, etc).

edit: Oh, also, more info should come around the 11th or 12th.

FMA vol. 17 discussion start

Erm... well, I guess I won't post anything in the body here so as to avoid spoilers. But let's go ahead and do the discussion thing via the comments as you guys suggested. ...actually, I can't think of anything off the top of my head, so anyone is welcome to throw something out there. :p

My anime/manga purchases today

This probably won't be all that long of a post, but I thought I'd announce I picked up the second and third subbed volumes of Gurren Lagann today (so now I own that whole series), as well as Vol. 17 of the FMA manga. As far as GL goes at least, I had enjoyed the episodes I had seen on Sci Fi, but I kinda hadn't been following it much past the first few episodes, so when I have the time, I'll be happy to sit and watch it all the way through. On FMA, I'm not sure how many people own it and have read it just yet, but maybe someone could make a blog post so we can discuss it in the comments section to avoid spoilers for those who haven't, the way we were doing that Code Geass discussion further down.

FMA vol. 17

Has anyone else picked this up yet? I got it last night. It'd been so long since I read Vol. 16 that I had to go back and read it again first. Vol. 17 gets two thumbs up, of course.

Vol. 18 comes out in May 2009. Vol. 17 ends w/ chapter 69, and the "native" releases are up to chapter 88 or so. So if Viz keeps with this current idiotic release schedule, that's like, what, two years before the U.S. releases get to where they are in Japan now? Does anyone know what Viz's planned release schedule is from here on out? I think Arakawa releases one chapter a month, but I'm not sure.

I'm starting to think that I'm going to become impatient one of these days and just go get current like I am with Bleach and Naruto. With those I read one chapter a week and the story stays current in my mind, so one a month would be more convenient to keep up with than having to go back and refresh my memory every six months on FMA.