With so many characters returning, I wonder if the end of the manga is now in sight.
I think it's because everyone's returning that we know the end is coming. Not here, but coming. I heard tell somewhere on one of these threads that Arakawa wants to keep the series relatively short. (If anyone has references to/sources on this one, contradictory or otherwise, please share them!)
My point is, we're at the beginning of the end. The homunculi are steadily shrinking in number, Mustang's put his plan into action, and everyone and their brother (mother, aunt, sister, cousin, nephew, grandma, 4th cousin thrice removed, goldfish, etc.) is coming back. The first clue is a lead-in, the second clue is a main reference point, and all the characters seem to show up in the end, if certain recent teen novels are any indication.
It won't be over in five chapters. Maybe not ten, but judging by the amount of content in each chapter, it's a slight possibility. But, as much as things are winding up, they're winding down, too.
My point is, we're at the beginning of the end. The homunculi are steadily shrinking in number, Mustang's put his plan into action, and everyone and their brother (mother, aunt, sister, cousin, nephew, grandma, 4th cousin thrice removed, goldfish, etc.) is coming back. The first clue is a lead-in, the second clue is a main reference point, and all the characters seem to show up in the end, if certain recent teen novels are any indication.
It won't be over in five chapters. Maybe not ten, but judging by the amount of content in each chapter, it's a slight possibility. But, as much as things are winding up, they're winding down, too.
May be you are right!!
^I think you guys are right when you say that the end is quite near, with all the characters showing up.
Maybe the end will be a nice round 100 chapters.
Not too sure if that's achievable though.
Maybe the end will be a nice round 100 chapters.
Not too sure if that's achievable though.
QUOTE (Gukumatz @ Nov 14 2008, 08:30 PM) 
QUOTE (Cece @ Nov 14 2008, 06:42 PM)
Roy makes me swoon.
OMG, he's depriving you of oxygen, like in that Perfect Guide 2 explanation!
Also: Another comment for this chapter: I love that Arakawa gave us a more detailed view into Mustang's alchemy. I always wondered how the long-distance explosions worked. He has said something before about manipulating the concentrations of the gases in the air, but that didn't explain how he was able to light a fire without getting burned at his end.
Now I'm wondering what exactly from the dust he is combusting. If it were household dust, it would obviously be carbon since most of household dust is dead cells and stuff. He could also transmute the phosphorus from destroyed DNA in dead cells, since elemental phosphorus is crazy-combustible (P.S. add The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus by John Emsley to your reading lists, everyone).
Sand, though. Sand is mostly oxidized silicon. How the heck does that work for combustion? Unless he separates the silicon out of SiO2 and then recombusts it, which is what he did with the hydrogen in water when he burned Lust.
Oh my goodness, you guys, I'm totally going to calculate the enthalpy of silicon combustion when I get back to my pchem textbook.
Edit: Oh wait, it just occurred to me that sand is heavy. That's probably not what he used to funnel fire through the air in Ishval. Hehehe, nvm.
Wow I didn't think people read that far into the story. I just saw the pretty fire and swooned.
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