鋼の錬金術師 Volume 16 Discussion Thread
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Reading Schedule
| Chapter |
Start Date |
Pages |
No. of Pages |
|
| 第 62 話 夢の先 |
Mar 14 |
7–50 |
44 pages |
|
| 第 63 話 520センズの約束 |
Mar 21 |
51-94 |
44 pages |
|
| 第 64 話 ブリッぐズの北壁 |
Mar 28 |
95-138 |
43 pages |
|
| 第 65 話 鉄の掟て+ おまけ |
Apr 3 |
139-187 |
49 pages |
|
Discussion Rules
- If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask.
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- Please use spoiler tags for major events.
- If you read ahead, please hold questions until during or after the appropriate week.
第 62 話
Start Date: March, 14
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Page, uh… 21 (I think?) is giving me deja vu. 
Summary
Meanwhile, on this week’s episode of “how did they translate 殲滅 this time?”… they actually used “extermination campaign”.
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I love full metal alchemist so much, enjoy the reading guys 
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第 63 話
Start Date: March, 21
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Ahh, wanna see this moment in anime (I’m a bit behind)
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It’s Brotherhood episode 32. Or according to the way it’s listed on Netflix (at least for me), it’s part 3 episode 6. Just before the six-minute mark.
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I’m on ep. 28, so not far. We’ll see!
For me some scenes in manga hit harder, than in anime. Maybe because I have time to linger and really think about it, or because my imagination runs free, or just animation is lacking. True Envy’s form was much more impressive/terrifying in manga for example.
Also there was an absolutely out of plot scene with Hohenheim in ep. 27 I think, instead of scene in the traveling coach. My friend with whom I watch anime was looking at me with clear WTF in her eyes, and I was like: “Don’t look at me, I have no idea 
”
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Yeah, the horror elements are almost always lost in the anime form which is why Junji ito has never been adapted correctly. There is just something about the strokes in a still image that make it so much scarier
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第 64 話
Start Date: March, 28
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It’s finally time to meet Olivier Mira Armstrong.
The fact that every significant character randomly decides to head north at the same time feels like it strains credibility a little.
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I went to check if I remember correctly an other Armstrong’s sister that we met, and see if there are more siblings, and… caught a bunch of probably spoilers again! I never learn! 
Further spoilers about the family I think?
Anyway, our pal is an only boy and has two more middle sisters that we will not meet. Or maybe will meet in volume 20? I’m not sure, and afraid to investigate. They are in between, I wanna see them!
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第 65 話
Start Date: Apr, 4
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Page 144, I don’t think I can read ジュラルミン any more without thinking of Yotsuba’s bear. (Though Viz, for some reason, translated it as “geralmine aluminium”. Did… did they not even consult a dictionary on that one? I mean maybe duralumin wasn’t in the dictionary because it used to be a trade name, but still, what they’ve come up with is barely in the ballpark. Googling that phrase gets only a single result on the entire internet, and it’s someone’s summary of this volume. Though I suspect after I post this post, there’ll be two results. 
)
Page 176, after that cackling departure, it’d be funny if the back half of the train caught up again after the engine stopped.
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