I noticed no one has reviewed this yet, so I thought I might as well do it myself. I have read all the volumes released in the USA (5 of 7).
These stories aren’t in the Manga and weren’t written by Arakawa (creator of FMA manga). However, Arakawa supervised the creation of the novels and helped create the stories. So, I would consider the information in these books to be an actual part of the FMA world and not just "filler." One of the stories even was animated in the original Fullmetal Alchemist anime.
These are a series of light novels. Each novel is about
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 Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Hagane no Renkinjutsushi, FMA, Fullmetal Alchemist Novel Japanese: 鋼の錬金術師 More titlesInformationType: Light Novel
Volumes: 7
Chapters: 35
Status: Finished
Published: Feb 2003 to Apr 22, 2010
Theme:
Military
Demographic:
Shounen
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Dec 31, 2021
Not to be confused with the manga, this is a collection of short stories outside of the main plot of FMA. The stories themselves are independent on each other, so much that you could read the volumes in random order and it wouldn’t matter. Expect the level of content as you would from a side story OVA, just in the form of a novel. So no, there isn’t anything important to the overall FMA plot contained here, but it’s okay, because that’s not expected in the first place.
I would in fact commend this for capturing the essence of FMA writing quite well – if ... |
