Arakawa, Hiromu

Hohenhein has the opportunity to stop the doppleganger "father" who rules over Central City, but surprise may not be enough to help him defeat the powerful homunculus. Then, King Bradley's triumphant return may turn the battle in the military's favor.

President Bradley is set up for an assassination attempt. Then, Ed meets someone from his past, and, while Al is separated from his armor body, someone else is filling his shoes.

The Elric brothers, both injured in an alchemical ritual gone wrong, discover a terrible secret in the course of their efforts to find a cure, and Major General Olivier Mira Armstrong is presented with an offer that tests her ethics and resolve.

When the laboratory explodes, Edward is injured and forced to start his investigation of the Philosopher's Stone conspiracy over again, and Lieutenant Colonel Maes Hughes stumbles upon a terrifying secret.

After losing his arm and leg in an alchemical ritual that went wrong and trapped his brother's soul in a suit of armor, Edward Elric searchs for the legendary Philosopher's Stone in the hopes its powers can restore them both.

Gluttony and Lust risk everything to kill Barry the Chopper, who is in Colonel Mustard's custody, before he can spill what he knows about the Philsopher's Stone conspiracy and Colonel Mustard is forced to sacrifice everything in an attempt to stop Lust.

Ed returns to Resembool and is reunited with his father for the first time in many years, and as they deal with their conflicted emotions, Ed and Al discover an important fact about the trasmutation ritual they attempted years earlier that may change their destiny forever.

Ed, Al, and Winry return to Central Command to learn that Lt. Colonel Maes Hughes has been murdered, supposedly by Second Lt. Maria Ross; and the living suit of armor bearing the soul of serial killer "Barry the Chopper" breaks out of military custody and goes on a rampage, forcing the mysterious Homunculi to come out of hiding and deal with the mess.

Edward Elric, having lost his arm and leg in a botched alchemical ritual that left his brother Alphonse a soul in a suit of armor, continues his quest for the Philosopher's Stone which will restore their bodies, but the mission is jeopardized when Elric and Prince Lin of Xing are swallowed by the homunculus Gluttony.

Winry, Ed, and Alphonse go south in Search of Izumi Curtis, the master alchemist; however, an encounter with a pickpocket in the town of Rush Valley heads them down a different path.