Full Metal Alchemist

After 9 years of serialization, FMA series finally came to an end, with 108 chapters.
The anime, FMA: Brotherhood will end along with the manga at the end of June(If i not mistaken). Congratulation to Hiromu Arakawa sensei for having another series ended, and look forward to the next. It was a nice manga, and one of the great series I ever read.

The theme of the manga is great : Equivalent Exchange, is the greatest point that attracted me to start on with this series. The concept of ancient "alchemy" is special too...till today I dont really read much manga about alchemy(there are games about this though).Anyway, dont want to be a spoiler here, check the manga out if you have free-time, highly recommended. Here, thanks a lot to FMA for accompanying me these year~XP
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After finishing this series, I even sure that manga can be a great literature!
It is just like others literature(poem, short stories, novel...), the different is just how the author compile drawings and words together into an illustrated works. Manga is not just merely or appropriate to be called cartoon production, it means a lot. Like any other form of literature, manga has it own theme, plot, way of telling the stories, characters, values that given to the reader(like those literature we studied during PMR and SPM). It needs some thinking and researches, if you really into the stories.

Manga/comic, can actually be a great teaching material in class...but because of it's informality, it is blocked from the classroom. There is still literature reference book that make the stories into comic strips like "Phantom of the Opera" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".

Same apply to anime!!!

In defensing the right of MANGA XP
JW