Steel Alchemist
I. Introduction
People can't get anything without sacrifice, and in order to get something, you have to pay the same price, which is the principle of alchemy's 'equivalent exchange'! At that time we were convinced that that was the reality of the world!"
"The Alchemist of Steel" is a work destined to become a classic, and the so-called "equal exchange" principle is superficially trivial, but in fact has extremely profound ideological significance. The author, Hiroshi Arakawa, actually came up with the theme of "you have to give something to get something" before deciding to adopt the theme of "alchemy". However, both the author Hiroshi Arakawa and Shonen GANGAN itself are not very well known in Japan, and the manga version of "Alchemist of Steel" was quietly serialized for a few months, and its popularity has been very limited compared to the works of flagship manga magazines such as "Shonen Jump". The reason for the success of the manga is that it came at the right time, as the merger of SQUARE and ENIX in 2003 led to a large-scale branding campaign, and SQUARE's publishing business became one of the key areas of development. In order to further increase the popularity of Shounen GANGAN, SQUARE-ENIX decided to animate the magazine's serial "The Alchemist of Steel" and invested a large sum of money in the production. that drove a steady increase in the circulation of JUNIOR GANGAN. In 2004, SQUARE's publishing business has developed into a series that combines anime, manga, novels, toys, games and other products with "Steel Alchemist" as its core. Last year, SQUARE-Alchemist won the first place among the 100 best works of 2003 selected by Japan's anime and manga journal PAFU, beating out a number of rivals, and became the winner of the 49th Best Teen Manga Award of the Primary School Library. In February of this year, SQUARE-ENIX announced that it had sold more than 8 million copies of the manga's single-volume version, and as a result, sales of the SQUARE-ENIX Publications Division reached 6.5 billion yen, the highest ever, and SQUARE-ENIX has vowed to make "Steel Alchemist" a first-class brand on a par with FF and DQ.
Compared with the traditional anime works, "Steel Alchemist" is the most unusual place is its two protagonists mutilated body, lost his right hand and left leg of Edward and lost the whole body of Al in order to get back to the lost everything embarked on a journey in search of the "Sage's Stone" has great power, due to the use of mechanical prosthetics, the national alchemist is known as the "Sage's Stone", the "Sage's stone". Due to the use of mechanical prosthetics, the national alchemist is known as the "Alchemist of Steel". In this work, two brothers risked their lives to launch the forbidden "Human Alchemy" just to see their mother's smiling face ...... again, and they failed. As a result, they failed. In order to find the Sage's Stone, abandoning all attachments, that day they burned down their home, and then in Edward's pocket watch with an additional line - "Don't forget October 3". Alchemy is a spell of equivalence, they find all the substances that are equivalent to the human body, however, what can replace the soul?