Fullmetal Alchemist talk

[rachelmanija]

oyceter just finished watching the series and has several posts on it. Go thou and discuss. Note that she has not yet seen the movie. Do not spoil her for it.

One of the side benefits of watching anime is learning useful words and phrases in Japanese. For instance, I now have the capability of casually dropping into conversation phrases like touka koukan (equivalent exchange), jintai rensei (human transmutation), gun no inu (dog of the military), and of course hagane no renkinjitshi (fullmetal alchemist.)

I learned mon (gate) from the series, and that actually was useful the last time I visited Japan, as my inn was near an old temple gate, so I several times was able to find my way back to it by asking, "Where is the old gate?" I didn't get a chance to use any of the others, though, and I had to use "hagaren" rather than the full name of the show (which I kept tripping over) to make myself understood when I was looking for figurines.