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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SidusLupus" data-source="post: 2213778" data-attributes="member: 10278">Spoilers and stuff-Ed's world is a parralell world to ours. Instead of developing technology like ours did, they developed alchemy, which is their equivalent to science. There is a bridge between the two worlds, the big black gate where souls are housed. If you see that gate by trying to ressurect a human through alchemy, you a) make a hommunculus b) can preform transmutations without the use of circles. The hommunculus is the person you tried to ressurect, but not. I forget the exact specifics, but the power of alchemy draws on something from our world. I think it was souls. Traveling to our world requires going through the gate. Ed's dad and dante transmuted an entire city i believe in order to make a philosopher stone, which stunted the development of the entire world. The colonel who starts to unravel the secrets and then dies is one of the saddest moments ever, and totally unexpected when it happens.I can't remember exact details, because I watched the japaneese version a while ago. From what I can tell the American version is pretty close, but the Japaneese version is better because there are things that are lost in translation. If you watch anime regularly, you'll find out that though some of them are for children, they are far more thought provoking than any american cartoon.</blockquote>