I love the action sequences in this manga. So many things all moving in different direction suddenly all come together at once.
Gotta say, it’s always amused me that しっかりしろ is the default Japanese response to serious injury. Leg got severed? Just pull yourself together! Get over it!
At least buy the girl a drink before you start sticking your hands inside her chest, Mustang.
It never even occurred to me to consider that. I’m immune to spoilers, having read the whole thing before, so is there any chace you could link me to something without exposing yourself further?
Yah, that’s exactly the same adminition the AI gave me, too. After a number of snippets lifted directly from the FMA wiki, it does eventually suggest this:
Solaris as a concept:
While the name “Solaris” doesn’t have a direct, explicit meaning in the context of the anime, it might be inspired by the 1972 science fiction film Solaris, which deals with themes of memory, identity, and the nature of reality. In the film, Solaris is a planet that creates sentient, human-like manifestations, which could be a subtle nod to Lust’s own nature as a homunculus.
Which is… something? But probably not what Arakawa-sensei had in mind, as she usually draws her references from real-world alchemy… or WWII military hardware.
… And that comment made me consider Googling for “solaris” in the context of alchemy. It likely has some connection to the Sun as an alchemical symbol (i.e. Sol), though the exact spelling “solaris” only seems to turn up in a couple of specific applications:
as “infans solaris” (“child of the sun”), an alternate name for filius philosophorum, “the philosophers’ child”, a symbol that may be related to the philosopher’s stone
as “lapis solaris”, the alchemical name for barium sulfide
as “pulvis solaris”, a powdered substance that was meant to… I dunno, something something… possibly related to the above considering “lapis” just means “stone” and “pulvis” means “powder”
I’m inclined to go with the first option considering her connection to Father.
Little Mei Chan cameo in the very first two panels there. If only she knew how close she’d come to Edward Elric…
I’d honestly like to know when Team Mustang found the time to convince Ling Yao and company to join them - here we have Fuu running errands for him, and Lan Fan standing guard for him (and last volume, it was Lan Fan’s flare that summoned him to the battle).
So, some stuff is going on in this chapter. Hohenheim is named for Theophrastus von Hohenheim (full name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), who is best known to history as Paracelsus, a sixteenth century alchemist.
Nah, Ed’s got the same authority as a Major, so basically the same rank as Armstrong, though I don’t recall anyone ever calling him that. I think Breda is just being cute. Viz translation went with “big guy”.
(Though, the fact that he’s here does explain why he never showed up during the Barry Incident.)
I refuse to research anything from now on.
And he’s evidently decided that Mustang is best kept alive.
