Fullmetal Alchemist Vol. 25: Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 25
- ISBN
- 9781421539249
- Publisher
- VIZ
- English release
- Pages
- 192
Fullmetal Alchemist 25 begins the material collected in the ninth 3-in-1 paperback. It continues the fighting around Central City and is followed by the last two singles. If you own the collected edition, you already have this stretch; if you collect the standard books, this is the next installment after Vol. 24. Choose by contents rather than treating the different edition numbers as interchangeable points in the story.
Spoilers — why this volume matters. Tap to reveal.
VIZ describes Father trying to force a choice on Mustang while Al faces a chance to recover his body at a troubling cost. The parallel makes the language of choice uncomfortable. An option can be real while the circumstances that produced it are coercive or unacceptable. Greed and Bradley's continuing battle places those decisions inside an emergency rather than a quiet opportunity to deliberate. The strongest argument in this premise is that getting close to a long-held objective does not settle what may be paid for it. The desired result and the acceptable means remain separate questions.
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