Hey, thank you for organizing the thread. I did see your post a while ago, but I'm simply waiting for some people to volunteer with image editing of the omakes before I start to translate. With a site this size, it's surprising that no one bothered... If there is anyone considering it, please let me know ASAP, as I will not offer to translate anything starting mid-August, when I start my second degree.

Hey guys! I was bored one day, and I decided to do my first scanlation. From what I could see, I didn't see that anyone had translated this omake yet, so I hope I'm not being useless here...

Translated for me by my beautiful friend: gretchen8642
Scanlated by: Yours truly.

Here you are, an omake from the 22nd volume:
Right Here.

Uhm, I take no responsibility for mistranslation, I'm just the stupid monolingual one.

Hello live4him4eva!!

Actually, I already posted my work on that Omake on April 18 on this post. ^^
But, thank you!! You did nice job!!

Alzea has posted the translations for other Omake on that chapter here.
If you'd feel like it, please go ahead and do the rest of scanlations!! ^^

yay! finally i found the omakes! thx!

These are the omakes from the Fullmetal Alchemist Character Guides
Feel free to take them, but don't modify they please =D (for example, don't remove the credits on the top right corner =P)

If you want to truly understand the jokes behind the stories, you should wiki the stories. But I can explain briefly here...

I'm sure everyone knows about Beauty and the Beast... It's about a beauty who got stuck with this beast guy (who is actually a prince or something) because her father was captured by the beast... I think... xD;


Cinderella is about this maid who wanted to go to the prince's ball but has no pretty clothings, so the fairy godmother came and gave her pretty clothings and in the end Cinderella lived happily ever after w/ the prince because she looks so hot or something.
Little Red Riding Hood is about this little girl who got tricked by this evil wolf, which wanted to eat her and her grandma. At the end the little girl was saved by a hunter who wanted to eat some wolf meat.


The Inch-High Samurai is about this little guy (who is only 1-inch tall) who went to the city, applied for a job (the princess's guard or sth like that), defeated the demon by destroying his organs, and became normal-size using the demon's magic mallet.
Little Red Riding Hood is about this little girl *snip*


Run! Melos is about two best friends... one is about to be executed (Melos) by the king for some reason, and Selin took Melos' place temporarily because Melos had to leave town to do... something... Anyway, Melos had to get back to town within a set time so that Selin won't be killed... heck, just wiki it. xD;
The Spider's Thread is about a criminal who was about to be saved by god (because god sees that he is not an extremely horrible person or sth), but ended up not being saved because he was selfish and the god's spider thread broke.


The North Wind and the Sun is about the sun and the wind having a competition at getting that traveller to strip. Well it's obvious that we never strip in Winter... we only strip in Summer. =P Stupid wind.
The Golden Axe is about a woodcutter who dropped his worn axe into the lake, and was being honest and didn't take the golden and the silver axe when the goddess of the pond offered them to him. At the end he got all 3 axes. He told everyone else about the lake so a bunch of people went to try, but they got their axes taken away because they all lied.


PS. Don't use what I said as reference. I was joking for some of them.

Question : why take the trouble to translate all this if nobody can read it? I mean, it's so small!



Greek mythology. Great story, if I may say.



The original story ends up with the girl eaten and not saved, actually. It was modified in order to not shock children, to whom this tale was aimed.

@AA battery: Wow, thanks for taking the time to translate all of these! But like Sannom said, the pictures are really small. Can you add bigger pictures so we can read it more clearly?

Heya I was the one who scanalated these along with AA battery doing the translations. When I had the files they were a much bigger size. However AA Battery had to edit something before they were posted so this must have effected the file size. I'll let her know and we'll try to resolve the problem soon and put the bigger file sizes up.

Thank you, AA battery and mellulah!!


Adding to AA battery's awesome post.... about Omake on the left side of the pic..

The story of Buddha trying to save Kandata is an old Indian story, and you can read it in many places.. for example, I just found this site: Story of "Spider's thread"

Anyway, the gist of the story goes like this... One day Buddha is in Heaven and watching down, and sees Kandada in Hell, and Buddha remembers that Kandata actually had a moment of "goodness" in him when he spared a spider's life while he was alive, and decided to save Kandada by lowering down a spider's thread toward Kandata to climb up. Kandata finds the thread and starts to climb up, but as he does, others in the Hell follows him and also climb up the thread. Fearing that the thread may break, Kandata gets selfish and tells them to get off because the thread is his, and hearing that Buddha gives up saving Kandata and so, no sooner than Kandata yells at the ones below, the spider's thread breaks and Kandata falls down to Hell again... and that's the gist of the original story.
(And, of course the joke for that Omake is that Buddha extends the spider's thread, but NOBODY down in the Hell, neither Roy nor Al nor others, wants to climb up. )

It's photobucket's fault (it resized them to smallest possible size for whatever reason). If I took the effort to scanlate them, I'd definitely put them up in a readable size. *goes reupload* But Sannom really sounded like I purposely uploaded them in ineligible size... Huh. Maybe I should do that on purpose next time. Or put a big ugly watermark on it. Both sounds fun.

When I edited the files, all I did was correcting the typos and adding in the one-line translation I missed. I couldn't have bother to take the extra effort to resize them =P Why waste more time than I already had? I don't like doing scanlations, after all.

Thanks AA battery and mellulah for the work, much appreciated.

It's strange, when I went to copy the URL for the images and opened them in a new window, they were full-sized but here, it's like they're non-clickable thumbnails...

Great work though!

These omakes are making me laugh so hard hahahhaa! XD

Thanks AA battery and mellulah for the scanlation! I really enjoyed the omakes!

Thanks AA batery for bringing us the translated omakes. And sorry for my rudeness earlier, it's just that I was kinda disappointed and I'm not good at irony (neither to do it or catching it).

No offense, but mine is a little more pleasing to the eye. xD; Though, the translation varies slightly, so I can understand the hesitance to replace it.

Here, with the help of my friend again, I was able to scanlate this omake. The translation provided wasn't thorough enough for me to do anything.

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x57/liv...pg?t=1248742111

Also, if anyone can help me come up with an alternative title, one that makes a little more sense, it would be appreciated.

I think I'm working on the Den eating a cockroach one or Kimblee blowing up a hotel to get a cockroach one next.

Aaaaand, here's my third scanlation.

Nobody could figure out exactly what the sign read, and the only thing I could seem to fit in there was "Fullmetal Dorm" so please bear with me if dorm isn't a very good term. (I mean, I even had to make the sign bigger to fit dorm in there, so...)

Done with the translation by shinraisei, and with a little help from gretchen8642, as per usual.

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x57/liv...pg?t=1248747342

Also, does anyone understand the title? Is G the nickname of the bug or something?


ETA: July 28
It's me again. This time I'm here with a full page, rather than half. This is the G-sama one and the Fortune Teller one, and I'd prefer, if someone is going to archive it or something, that you use this image as opposed to the G-sama one I posted above. (Because I forgot credits on that one. -facepalm-)

Next I'll be doing the Den eating a cockroach one to complete another full page, because I also forgot credits on the Miniskirt Army one too.

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x57/liv...scanlated-1.jpg

Mkay, off to do more scanlating.
(I actually really enjoy it. Feel free to commission me some more, people. )

^ Glad you're enjoying the scanlating works.

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@live4him4eva - Please see this post about "double posting" on our board.

Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize. I'll be sure to do that next time. I'm a little new to these forums, despite the fact I've been around for ages.

To make up for my multiple posts, you can ignore those, and I'll consolidate my works here, for ease of archiving, if you would like. I've scanlated one more omake, which I believe will be my last for a little while.
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x57/liv...13scanlated.jpg

Also, I'm willing to try to archive and consolidate all the omakes, to try to figure out which ones haven't been done and such, but I'm unsure of how to go about it. I have no way of knowing how many omakes are in each volume or what have you. Is there any big list somewhere?

That is so nice of you!! Yes, the list is on the first post of this thread.
But, the list on the first page hasn't been updated for a while, and AA battery who is the co-editor of this thread along with the OP, and myself have been seeking some volunteers with the help for the updating of the thread. Please consult AA battery to find out how far (if nay) of the updating has been done, and what's needed to be done now (translating, scanlating, etc.) That would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!!

My only problem, like I said previously, is that I wouldn't know what was missing. I don't know how much help I can be with updating, but archiving/consolidating the omakes is something I can do. I have been mooching off of the rest of the fandom for long enough, I've decided to help out a bit. XD

Is the OP of this thread still around? So if I get all the links to omakes, they can be posted to the first page, right?

@live4him4eva - The OP, Shirokage hasn't posted on our board for a while. Although, I think she/he is around. You can try PMing? Or, AA battery may have info. Please PM and find out. ^^

Okay, but it might be a while. It's possible that I could be gone from tomorrow until the end of August, so I don't want to start what I can't finish yet.

Either way, I changed my mind again and my friend and I want to scanlate some more, so you may be seeing more out of me today.

EDIT: Uhh, ok, did a little guesswork with the ゴーツ sound effect. Please correct me if I was wrong, as I figured it was a swelling of fire or anger, so I put Fwoom.
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x57/liv...4scanlation.jpg

EDIT #2: So I just got the Character Guide, when I went to NY to meet gretchen8642, the one who normally translates the omakes I scanlate. I'm planning on scanlating the "Which Homunculus Are You?" quiz, unless it's already been done. Does anyone know if it has? Also, I know the 4Komas at the end of the Character Guide have been scanlated, but have we seen scanlations of the front and back cover omakes? I haven't...

I just recently bought all the volumes that are out in English (19), and I was wondering if anyone would be interested in me scanning and uploading all the extra pages? Not just the omakes, but anything exclusive to the volumes, like the volume cover page, Arakawa's quote/doodle page, and the chapter dividers (the black pages with a character sketched in white in the corner).

If so, I'd be willing to scan it all and organize it into some sort of Photobucket album or zip file.

Yes! That would be great. I'm not entirely sure it would be allowed in this thread, you would have to ask the mods of the thread, but I say go for it.

Also, here's another omake, this one is from volume 23.
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x57/liv...02scanlated.jpg

Yeah, I was wondering why no one had done something like that before. I don't know the difference legally, if there is any, between scanlations and English scans, but I can't imagine its much. And true, this is "scanlation" thread, and I wouldn't exactly be uploading scanlations.

I ordered them off the internet and am still waiting on 7 more volumes, so once they're all in I'll see what I can do.

Also, thanks for that omake! haha

^ Thank you, live4him4eva! ^^

@AmbearHoneypotts - Yes, that would fit this thread very much, and that would be very much appreciated. Thank you so much for your help.

Oh, well I didn't get any further than what you can see in the first post of this thread, and what you can see from Hey's recollection post a few pages earlier. School has started for me so I don't think I'll have time to scanlate anything else. Sorry.

I'm still waiting on two more volumes, and then I'll work on uploading them as a zip file. I've already been scanning them as I've been getting them so it won't be too much work on my part. Just waiting on vol. 16 and 19~

Are you scanning English volumes or Japanese volumes? If it's Japanese volumes, you don't have to, as I've provided downloads on my Raw thread.

The English volumes, and just the omakes, Arakawa quote, etc., not the whole thing. Thanks for your work, by the way ^^

Ahh okay, that's awesome ^^

thanks for the vol 23 omake translation.and lol XD

Yay!!! Jajajajajaja. this cool and funny cartoon!!!!

Is very funny, thanks for this!!!!

I got an idea that Shirokage should collect all the omakes that were posted randomly and put them all in your first post so that no one has to check every single post to make sure they do not miss any precious omake, which takes AGES

wow these are the best scans ever. they are so funny.

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@Hotmustard - I got an idea also..actually two ideas:

1. How about.. you actually check out her first post? If you did, you might have found that Shirokage-san kindly spent HUGE amount of her own time and already "collected all the omakes that were posted randomly" and kindly compiled an amazing list of FMA Omake collection on the first page of this thread.

However, she has been busy for a while now, and since her last "update" more Omake had been posted that are not listed on the first post of this thread yet, and currently we are looking for volunteers to assist on updating the list.

2. So, instead of making some "angry face" for the "lack of her efforts" at someone who has already contributed so much of her time and efforts for our board and for the love of FMA, and done some amazing jobs for us and gave us this awesome thread that has been enjoyed by god knows how many FMA fans so far...

...How about you contribute some of your own time and some of your own efforts for our board this time, and go through this thread and compile the list as requested on this post? (with the consultations from the thread's co-manager, AA Battery, of course. ^^)
That would be very much appreciated.. by me, and other readers of this thread. ^^

Just a thought.

That's exactly my point. Fullmoon and live4him4eva have contributed some omakes that haven't been added to her last update, which I almost missed, so that's why I came up with that idea.


I always wonder am I that kind of person who causes constant misunderstanding? I war NOT mad at Shirokage for the "lack of her effort" since I understand how much time must it have taken her to collect all those translated omakes, which I honestly highly appreciate. If you think I was, then I apologize.

Oh, thanks for your politeness anyway

... I guess I'll just chuck in Hey's reorganization of threads somewhere into Shiro's first post. That should help a little... if anyone else were to do a recollection of threads that wasn't included in Shiro's and Hey's post, send me a PM after you have done the recollection and I'll be more than happy to edit it into Shiro's first post.

Please don't PM me if there was merely like, one new page. PM me if there are more than 10 pages, and include the links and description and such as I don't have time to go through all the threads for something I don't read.

^ That would be helpful. ^^Thank you, AA Battery!

@Hotmustard - No problem. ^^

I'm stilllll waiting on volume 19 to show up so I decided I'd just upload what I have now, since I'm also going to be separated from my scanner for a while.

Here's the .rar

It contains the covers, inside flaps, spines, chapter dividers, and mostly, omakes, of the first 18 English volumes. Well, actually, I didn't include the cover of volume 4 because I got it used and it had a sticker over Envy's face... Anyway, I hope this is useful to some people. ^^

Thanks so much for doing this you guys, I've really enjoyed reading them!

Thanks for uploading the English covers and spines, but does anyone happen to have the rest of the Japanese volumes with the spines as well? I haven't been able to find them anywhere.

i cant comment on recent volumes but at least below vol 16 i think the japanese raws are in mangahelpers.spine i'm not that sure.

Could someone translate the last omake from vol. 22?

http://pic.ipicture.ru/uploads/090927/5AARfCbr7R.png

I don't know if anyone else saw this, but...

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/7016/hag003.jpg
http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/4162/hag096.jpg

The omakes from Fullmetal Alchemist 25 are out. Can someone, please, translate these?

Hello everyone i just noticed that there is a forum for Omake (yes i am very slow...srry TT TT)
Anyways...

I would like to thank everyone for taking the time 2 post/translate all of the recent Omakes. I know that it must b very very time commsuming and alot of stress on ur body, eye strain, lack of sleep etc. (please take care of urselves!!> <) So once again thank u so much for all of hard hard work!!!!!!!!!!

I've scanned the omakes, 4-komas, sketches, etc. from the English Viz volumes, 19-23. You can find the rest (Vol. 1-18) in AmbearHoneypotts' post here.
Vol. 19-23 Omakes, etc.

I've also updated the first post with links to Volumes 24-27 omakes, so you can find everything there.


ETA, July 14:
Omakes, 4-komas, sketches from Vol. 24-25.

ETA, Dec. 21, 2011:
Omakes, 4-komas, sketches from Vol. 26-27.

Hey, I just discovered this...Shamballa thingy, apparently done by Arakawa, and I was wondering if anyone could tell me if it's legit. If it is, would anyone be kind enough to translate the whole thing for me? I'm dying to know what Winry's saying. xD



Thanks in advance!

Dearheart I've seen that 4koma before, and Winry is dragging Ed home with her while telling Al to "come along. Now!" in the last panel (Arakawa pretty much described her disapproval of Ed and Al leaving Winry in Shamballa with this comic; kind of like a 'take that!' even if its meant to be funny )

^Thank you, Hikarioneza!

@Dearheart - Yes, it is a legit Omake by Arakawa-sensei, and it was done in Sept. 2005. I thought we already got that one scanlated, but so far I can't find it. So...

It's missing the title, but I translated the part that' shown.