
During their adventures, Ed and Al discover startling truths about their world, alchemy, the Philosopher's Stone, their own family, and the forces working to manipulate the Elrics' search and lead them towards the Stone for a much more sinister purpose than what the brothers have in mind. In order to make real progress in their search, Ed becomes a State Alchemist, working for the government to help solve their problems while he and Al research the Stone's existence. The Elrics' quest to return their bodies to normal leads to the pursuit of the Philosopher's Stone, an artifact believed to allow alchemists to perform any form of alchemy (including human transmutation) without the necessary Equivalent Exchange. Ed and Al paid a steep price for their hubris: the former lost an arm and a leg (which were replaced with mechanical limbs), while the latter became a soul attached to an empty suit of armor. As young boys, the Elrics - who showed promise in alchemy at an early age - lost their mother in their grief, they attempted to bring her back to life via the forbidden practice of human transmutation. For Hiromu Arakawa's original manga and its direct anime adaptation (titled Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood), please see Manga.Fullmetal Alchemist.īrothers Edward and Alphonse Elric live in a world where alchemy is possible, though governed by the law of Equivalent Exchange ("to obtain, something of equal value must be lost").


#FMA 2003 SERIES#
This page deals with the 2003 series that diverged from the manga early on. Alphonse Elric, from the first Opening Narration
