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So Halloween weekend up at Anna's on Long Island was pretty great and now I just want to go off into the woods or something. Sunday afternoon we took a brief trip down to a beach on the Sound of sea-smoothed pebbles and glacial boulders and I could've spent hours there but the wind was about a million mph. I would've spent more time outside in general, but mostly the people I was hanging around gave in and conceded defeat to the cold. :D
I like this picture way more than is warranted.
So, with Death Note weeks in the past, I turn to the still-ongoing Full Metal Alchemist manga. I don't expect to be as captured by the narrative as I was with the TV series, but I was interested in the general concepts of the series from the first glance, and I expect to enjoy it.
But I've predictably become fixated on getting as much FMA stuff as I can downloaded and organized, regardless of how pertinent any of it is to the main story.
I can't find scans (translated or otherwise) of several of the many side-stories and supplementary comics. Someone help me! I'm not holding my breath over the promo books that were included with certain of the collected reprint volumes, but I know there are translated scans of "The Blind Alchemist" (from the first Perfect Guidebook) out there. There's also the "Flame Alchemist" book included with volume 6, and the book of 4koma gag comics included with volume 12 - those seem like the kind of thing that people would scan and translate.
There are also some other FMA-related publications which I have no idea of the content of... I read something vague about there being side-story materials related to the PS2 games (though that might have just referred to the games' stories)... no one seems to have clear info on whether the "Book In Figure BLACK" set was ever released, and whether it included a comic story like the red and blue volumes did... Aaaand the scans of the manga volumes are generally incomplete, and it's hard to tell whether there are one-panel cartoons on the inner cover or dust jacket flaps that are omitted, whether there's anything of interest on the volume title pages or plot synopsis page, and I just have to assume that there aren't any "omake" sections past the fourth volume, aside from the seperate book of 4koma mentioned above.
So, uh, yeah, if anyone wants to help me out there my obsessive brain defect will be much relieved.
I like this picture way more than is warranted.
So, with Death Note weeks in the past, I turn to the still-ongoing Full Metal Alchemist manga. I don't expect to be as captured by the narrative as I was with the TV series, but I was interested in the general concepts of the series from the first glance, and I expect to enjoy it.
But I've predictably become fixated on getting as much FMA stuff as I can downloaded and organized, regardless of how pertinent any of it is to the main story.
I can't find scans (translated or otherwise) of several of the many side-stories and supplementary comics. Someone help me! I'm not holding my breath over the promo books that were included with certain of the collected reprint volumes, but I know there are translated scans of "The Blind Alchemist" (from the first Perfect Guidebook) out there. There's also the "Flame Alchemist" book included with volume 6, and the book of 4koma gag comics included with volume 12 - those seem like the kind of thing that people would scan and translate.
There are also some other FMA-related publications which I have no idea of the content of... I read something vague about there being side-story materials related to the PS2 games (though that might have just referred to the games' stories)... no one seems to have clear info on whether the "Book In Figure BLACK" set was ever released, and whether it included a comic story like the red and blue volumes did... Aaaand the scans of the manga volumes are generally incomplete, and it's hard to tell whether there are one-panel cartoons on the inner cover or dust jacket flaps that are omitted, whether there's anything of interest on the volume title pages or plot synopsis page, and I just have to assume that there aren't any "omake" sections past the fourth volume, aside from the seperate book of 4koma mentioned above.
So, uh, yeah, if anyone wants to help me out there my obsessive brain defect will be much relieved.