Equivalent Trade

"Let's revive mom," Ed suggested to Al. So Edward and Alfonse both tried to resurrect their mother. They mastered Alchemy and boom! Their life has been a thrilling adventure, worthy to be shown on TV and awarded as the Best Anime for 2007. This is the anime series entitled "Full Metal Alchemist", from the name that the king has given to Edward Elric, who has a great skill in Alchemy. He has learned to transmute without a transmutation circle, from executing human transmutation. Did I mention that most of the episodes in the story exclaim that "Human Transmutation is forbidden." Ed and Al figured out why and discovered that the reason is "Doing Human Transmutation is simply a suicide" ! Unlike Death Note, FMA has a fun side, filled with jokes, but behind the laughters there are dramatic moments from crucial memories about war, death of a love one and a rotten society. Generally its about the promise of Ed and Al to each other,that is to retrieve their original bodies and live a normal life again. Does it sounds creepy? Well, actually, Alfonse Elric, the younger brother of Edward, has his body taken by the eyes in the gate during their first human transmutation. Edward Elric on the the other hand has his left leg taken, but he sacrificed his right arm to take back his brother's soul and transmute it to an armor. Edward decided to replace his amputated limbs with automail. Soon they found the Philosopher stone and use it to get their original bodies and stop the enemies.

"Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth. But the world isn't perfect, and the law is incomplete. Equivalent Exchange doesn't encompass everything that goes on here, but I still choose to believe in its principle: that all things do come at a price, that there's an ebb and a flow, a cycle, that the pain we went through did have a reward, and that anyone who's determined and perseveres will get something of value in return, even if it's not what they expected. I don't think of Equivalent Exchange as a law of the world anymore. I think of it as a promise between my brother and me. A promise that someday we'll see each other again."