I didn't either.
It seems to be something in Anime.
I gues I'll wrap things up. Good Night, Dr. Tulip.
We can always change the name to whatever wins, tho......
We had thunderstorms roll through, so I shut down the computer. I did manage to finish my lesson plans for Wednesday.
Good night, Bob.
Full Metal Alchemist is a recent Japanese animated cartoon series, now being broadcast on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.
It is well-drawn, well-plotted, well-imagined, and has both its light and (extremely) dark moments.
The two main protagonist characters are the young brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric.
When quite young, their mother died.
They made the mistake of trying to bring her back through Alchemy.
It cost Alphonse his entire body and literally cost Edward an arm and a leg.
Thereafter, they have been on a quest to find the Philosopher's Stone, the mythical (perhaps) amplifier which will transcend the Alchemical principle of "equivalent exchange" and allow them to regain their bodies.
The series chronicles their adventures and often horrifically painful/costly learning experiences on this quest, set against (and interweaving with) a background "larger story" of sporadic civil war, government corruption, and the secret war of the Homunculi.
It is GOOD STUFF