Fullmetal Alchemist

[Croyles]

At first i watched the anime and thought because it was made in Japan i could naturally assume that all the characters were meant to be Japanese or atleast Asian...then I read the manga and Asians actually turned up and that threw my assumptions out of whack.

Anyway love manga and anime, havent seen the movie. I wish the manga was finished though.

Waaahhh? You thought they were asians but then asians turned up? That makes no sense.

Well actually its pretty much set in an alternative dimension historic Germany (what a mouthful!).

In the manga, there are characters from Xing, a nation existing beyond the eastern desert. Characters from Xing are drawn with much more distinctively Asian features and are identified as foreigners with many cultural and physical differences. I'm sure blackmage_nuke meant that until the characters from Xing were introduced, he assumed everyone was supposed to be Asian, but then got confused when an ethnic group clearly modeled off of the Asians showed up and were treated as strange foreigners by the main cast he had previously considered Asian.

Yeah that makes sense now. This thread brought me to read the manga and id say I like them both the same (even though they are completely different).
I noticed the setting straight away though with names like Hohenheim, Armstrong and the look of the country and that nearly everyone is blonde (which is a bit of a silly stereotype). Although yeah anime likes its fair shair of blonde characters anyway. Also the military is clearly a german thing. Führer? LOL. I was like "What the???" when I first saw that. I guess the association makes sense later on ^^


Oh and yeah I also heard about that new FMA. I think its supposed to be one closely following the manga. But I wonder how they would handle the first 30 episodes seeing as how they are very similar to what was shown in the anime. They would have to repeat them probably...