Fullmetal Alchemist Volume 3

Japanese Cover

North American Cover

Japanese Release Date: September 2002
American Release Date: September 2005

Chapters
Chapter 9: A Home with a Family Waiting
Chapter 10: The Philosopher's Stone
Chapter 11: The Two Guardians
Chapter 12: The Definition of a Human
Side Story: The Military Festival

Name Change
Sciezka's name is spelled as "Sheska." Either one works, I suppose.

Name Change
I'm probably gonna get a couple of complaints about this, but here goes. The title given to King Bradley by Viz is "President." Now, it's not wrong because the Japanese word can translate to it. However, Fuhrer is more suiting and proper for what he does and how he runs things. What's whacky is that in the side story, they call him "Fuhrer President King Bradley." Fuhrer President makes no sense. o_O;

Dialogue Goof Up
Guess they forgot they called Ed's watch a "gold watch" earlier since they're now calling it a silver one. The silver color is the correct one.

Dialogue Fix Up
Now Al calls Ed "Big Brother" or "Brother" more often as he should be doing. Better they fixed that since Al rarely, if ever, calls his brother by his first name.

Dialogue Change
Although that doesn't stop them from adding censored swears, or censoring up actual ones. Barry originally calls Al a bastard after having his head knocked off. This was censored. What was added, however, is the image of Roy, Armstong and Hawkeye imitating Japanese street gangs. Roy says "I'll burn you." in the original. Viz, however, adds in "I'll @#$%ing burn you, man..." Don't see the point in it, really. First off, they allow "damn," "damn it," and "piss" but not "bastard" and censor "fucking" even though it was added in.

Thoughts
Not much to say aside from those edits. I am pleased to say NOTHING graphically is censored. Not even the guard's head being cut apart. o_o

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