Attachment is a 4koma the back cover of the Perfect Guide Book (Hong Kong version)... I found this too entertaining so I briefly translated it (Yea there might be error but the general idea is there)

Narration: Fullmetal Alchemist is a shounen (teenage boy style) manga.

Al: Even so... it sure lacks a lot of shounen manga components.

Al: For example: "hardworking"...

Ed: not needed. I am 100% (perfect) already to begin with.

SFX: *munch munch*

Al: "Friendship"... we don't have much friends.

Ed: Don't say it.

Al: "Companions"?

Ed: They are all old granpas. (LMAO xDDD)

Al: A really cool protagonist...

Al: But Nii-san is so short...

Ed: SHUT UP!

Ed: *sigh* Stuff such as "hardworking" and "friendship" are useless, useless (actually he said "worthless")! I am all filled up with attractiveness that Shounen manga lacks!

Al: then what are those?

Ed: MONEY and POWER! *State Alchemist*

Al: ... what a mean manga... *what about “brothers”?*

lol thats hilarious even though all those things are in the Manga XD!!!!

Hehe...that's funny...

SO MUCH LOVE. <3

Ed is so nice to people. XD XD XD

I love that omake too. I especially love the line about their companions all being old grandpas

Very, very funny... Much thanks for translation, armor-alchemist!

Thought there is something to be pointed out here... like Kyo_Umerio said, there are those things in the manga. Why else would we enjoy it so much, otherwise? (Okay, maybe if you were into angst...)

Gotta love Ed's attitude... so very self-confident for one so short! *ducks flying objects thrown by certain alchemist* Though it's also kinda mean... Roy is NOT an old grandpa!!!

That was great Armor-Alchemist! Mr bean-boy has such a nice attitude, doesnt he? lol Ed's so great. I love the comedic side of this series! Thanx also for the translation! personnaly I suck at reading Kanji.

l0l. I think I remember this one...
But this reminds me... I was thinking maybe [if no else's done this yet] some people could scan their hagaren 4 komas [like from the tankoubans and the DVDs, etc.] And we could try translate it? -shrugs- it was a thought. I can donate the 4 komas from manga vol. 6 and the first DVD. But my kanji is bad and the 4 komas never have furigana... so I dunno how much help I'll be with translations... But... I just thought it'd be a good idea to try translate the 4 komas? l0l

Edo needs a hug... that or more money Actually, did the Elric kyoudai have other childhood friends? It seems like since they were kids all the time they spent was either researching/doing alchemy and the chores like school(yes, I can proudly say that school is a chore), bringing vegetables or playing with Winry. Al must be lonely...

Yes, Ed and Al did have other friends durring there child hood, but they spent the most with Winry, who was like there best friend. They did do more than study alchemy and do chores (including school), it's just not really featured very often in the series, but is mentioned a few times. Once there mother died, however, it was mostly all work and no play for Ed and Al. They were forced to grow up fast in a way I suppose. Yeah, I'm sure Al's lonely as heck. It would suck being alone every night while every one else is asleep, year after lonely year, with no way to rest your mind, feel the things around you, or even cry. Always standing out in the crowd and being feared by the strangers around you. Not to mention the fact that he's a walking time bomb, never knowing when he his soul will be rejected by the metal armor it's attached to. And Ed blames him self for every thing that happened to Al... imagine living w/ that kind of guilt every day...

The 4Koma is funny!
I really like the last scene with the state alchemist ribbon at the bottom!
I tried to edit the words into the scan, but came out pretty bad...

;________; ... *goes off sleeping and crying*

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hakai-kun: O_O please scan them! I wanna try! *note: trying doesn't mean I will succeed tho xD but I do have friends that know better jap than I do so I can probably bug them if I failed... and there is always Umeko and CSakura! xD*

vol. 6 yonkoma
dvd. 1 yonkoma
and just because I felt like it:
vol. 6 front cover
vol. 6 back cover and...
spine!

Enjoy! and forgive me if there are any broken links. it's late. tell me if something's wrong, okay?

I've just tried translating the omake, and here it is:
(this is the first time that I've tried translating from Japanese, so please don't kill me if I get something wrong...)

LOL! Cool! Thanks all ^^.

To Shirokage: LOL That's so great... and strange! Arakawa-san has such a great sense of humor. Thanx for the translation! You sure did alot better of a job than I could ever do.

Here's a edited scan of the first 4koma with the translation from armor alchemist. (I photoshoped it a bit to correct the colour and the skew)

that's great XD if you guys like I can scan the little gaidens from all the volumes I have, I have 4-9

I also find it funny that the best shonen manga out there is done by a woman

The edited scans from vol. 6.

@angieness
can you scan up the 4koma from vol.7? I've got the other ones (I'll get round to editing them soon).

LOL, yeah I suppose that is a bit ironic. It gives me inspiration. If she can do it, so can I! FMA is such great shonen! Who ever said shonen should only be written buy guys made an error. lol Speaking of guys, what did any of you guys out there think about the characters? Do you think the male characters are right on and act/ think like guys or do you think there too femanized? Just curious.

...I'll post all the ones I've got, I haven't gotten around to translating 'em though... If any of these have been posted already, I'm sorry!

Manga 7 Omake
Manga 8 Omake (page one)
Manga 8 Omake (page two)
Manga 9 Omake (page one)
Manga 9 Omake (page two)
Manga 10 Omake (page two, I'll post page one if I can get it scanned correctly...)

HAGAREN DX 4KOMA:
Page One
Page Two
Page Three
Page Four
Page Five
Page Six

I think some of them have been posted before... Sorry if they have.

Volume 6 back & cover... I would do the spine too but it's too small to be read ^^;

(it's not platform, but I don't know what those footwear are called in English ^^; )

The 4koma from vol. 7

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Vol 9 omake 1 (I am gonna do omake 2 too so let's not do doubles ^^; )

Shirokage: xD i was gonna start that vol 7 one!

armor-alchemist: Then I shall do vol. 8. Maybe we should try using the same fonts so they are more consistant?
The 'platform' thingy = stilts?

The one with Scar and the Kittens in Alphonse is great. I can't wait to read more.

Page 1 and 2 of vol.8 (page 3 coming soon)

Edit: corrected "Mr. Den" to "Miss Den" (although it sounds a bit weird, I can't think of anything to replace sensei)

*is back from teaching piano for 2 hours... tired*

Shirokage: Which fonts are you using? (tell me the name of all 3 of them plz) *I am done, but I want ot edit mine to ur font... cuz mine looks really crap with the font I chose xD;;*

btw, Den is a girl :x

(but I can't read what Winry said in the third comic strip panel 2 & 3 altho has an idea... cuz the scan cut that off :x oh well, maybe you should just do that one since I am not too sure about it xD;; )

Those footwear are clogs, if I'm not wrong.

The last 4koma from vol. 8.

armor-alchemist: The fonts that I used are SF Grunge Sans, A.C.M.E. Secret Agent, and Inkpen2 Script. I'll edit the one about Den soon.

To Shirokage & Armor_Alchemist:
LOL Thanx for the translations! I laughed my bloody head off! There so great

Should this go here? I'm not sure if I should make a new topic for it or not, but since you're all sharing omake stuff... we translated the short story about Izumi from the second Guidebook. Since it's just a short side story, I'm not giving it the same degree of security that we do with the manga chapters...

Anyway, here we go!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/zomg...idebook2/01.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/zomg...idebook2/02.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/zomg...idebook2/03.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/zomg...idebook2/04.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/zomg...idebook2/05.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/zomg...idebook2/06.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/zomg...idebook2/07.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/zomg...idebook2/08.jpg
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http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/zomg...idebook2/10.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/zomg...idebook2/11.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/zomg...idebook2/12.jpg
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http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/zomg...idebook2/15.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/zomg...idebook2/16.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/zomg...cover-front.gif
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/zomg...book2/omake.gif

And now we're not going to do any more translation until chapter 48 YAY.

Umeko, thanks for sharing the gaiden (it was so funny).

BTW, the edited scan for the third 4koma in vol.9

Thank you everybody for all that material.

I wish I could help too, but I'm just starting with Japanese...

To Umeko: Lmao omg! That was hilarious! The translations where very good too! The Riza-Sensei feature at the end was absolutely histarical, I couldn't stop laughing! Thanx so much for the spreading the good humor!

The cover for vol. 10 and the omake from vol. 5 (was this posted before?).

According to the omake, Roy can do high oxygen concentration... so, he may be able to kill people with that... hmm...

All the translations here rock, thanks all of you I wish I could read Japanese, sigh

Possibly. Though I talked to my brother for a little bit afterwards, and he informed me that everything Roy said was wrong. Oxygen toxicity only occurs at depths (and I would like to take this moment to say that, yes, that WAS really the word Roy used; putting the Japanese equivalent into Google came up with countless Japanese diving sites), since oxygen isn't toxic above sea level. Doing what Roy is describing would take a LONG time to take effect, and even longer for it to be lethal.

Therefore, I came to the conclusion that oxygen is poisonous in Amestris. XD

I forgot to scan this one when I was uploading my vol. 6 stuff. So since I'm late I decided to take a stab at translating it too ^^; Please correct me if I'm wrong...

edit: Oh yeah, I was also wondering if maybe we should try translating Arakawa-sensei's flap rantings.. uh.. I dunno what to call them. The inside flaps of the volumes?

To hakai-kun: The stuff seems about right. Please scan the rantings.

More omake.

Thanks, I wasn't sure about my japaneseTOenglish oh, and I only have vol. 06. I can scan that ashita [tomarow... uh.. spelling?] and if anyone else has others, please scan those as well! Onegaishimasu!

Shirokage, Umeko, armor-alchemist and hakai-kun thanks heaps for sharing all of those!! you all rock!XD LMAO at all of the omake!! the story about Izumi was really good too-Umeko, great work on the translation-as always!!^.^
oh, and great work to the others that translated the omakes etc as well^^

Haaa, but CSakuraS did the translation of the Izumi story, I just did the editing. ^^;; I only did the translation of the covers (the stuff in orange).

More Omake from Vol. 10

THANK ALL THE KIND PEOPLE WHO SCANNED AND TRANSLATED THE OMAKES!!

Omg thanks so much every one! Your translations are really fab for those of us who are not so good with Kanji! Thank you all for taking the time and effort to make the translations, you guys are godly! Thank you so very much!

Finally got around to scanning Arakawa-sensei's ranting. I have graduation stuff this week, so if someone else could translate this, that'd be great. Onegai shimasu

My neighbour's little 3 year old girl, upon knowing I drew manga, came up to me with sparkling eyes and said "Can you draw princesses?"

I'm sorry little girl.

I only know how to draw lowly old men.

Dang! Someone beat me to uploading a translation for the ranting.
Anyhow, here's my scanlation to it.