Graphic Novel

Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 5

by Hiromu Arakawa / Akira Watanabe / Hiromu Arakawa / Hiromu Arakawa · Fullmetal Alchemist series

Edward and Alphonse journey east to learn from a master alchemist, while the military's internal fractures grow more dangerous. Arakawa widens the world geographically and philosophically, introducing new schools of alchemy and deepening the critique of state violence. Training montages give way to political thriller, and the brothers' personal quest becomes inseparable from the nation's reckoning.

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