Fullmetal Alchemist Vol. 20: Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 20
- ISBN
- 9781421530345
- Publisher
- VIZ
- English release
- Pages
- 200
Fullmetal Alchemist 20 continues the intrigue after Ed's injury and the discoveries around Hohenheim's past. The brothers' search remains entangled with a group whose competing interests make its members difficult to assess as a single enemy. Read this after the preceding volume rather than as a separate investigation. The buying reason is to follow how apparently stable sides become less reliable, with the specific pressures kept in the spoiler note.
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VIZ describes a homunculus showing signs of conscience while Greed, Pride, and Envy remain threats. The description leaves the identity and consequences of that hesitation unresolved. That is enough to support a reading of unstable allegiance without claiming a completed moral conversion. An enemy group becomes more interesting when its members cannot be treated as identical expressions of a plan. The volume's premise places internal hesitation beside the continuing question of the underground transmutation circle. A change in one person's willingness to act could matter politically, but a hint of conscience is not yet a dependable alliance.
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