This is easily one of my favorite anime/mangas. This is based around an art known as alchemy, which is the changing of something from one form to another using formulas and the users own abilities. An example of this would be one of the characters instantaniously changing a lump of iron into a sword. Alchemy is based on the law of equivalent exchange, you can only get a product that has the same amount of material as the components used. The show's main characters are Edward and Alphonse Elric, two brothers who lost parts of their bodies in a forbidden alchemical transmutation trying to revive their mother, they had not accounted for the equivilent exchange of reviving a human and it took Edwards right arm and left leg and Alphonse's entire body. Edward was able to save his brothers life by replacing his body with a suit of armor that is now controlled by his brother. The basic storyline is about them trying to find an item called the Philosophers Stone which allows alchemists to ignor equivilent exchange. They need to locate this in order to restore their bodies, but they are not the only ones who want the stone...
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