Every Fullmetal Alchemist Manga Edition Compared!

FMA is my favorite series of all time. I first read it through with the 3 in 1s and I really enjoyed them. I am now slowly rebuying the series with the Fullmetal editions as well!

I was all onboard for those hardcovers but then my friend started picking them up when they were first released. She had the fist 3 vols and when I saw them in person towards the end of 2018 I was not impressed. Like you said, the eyes of these books are not good and they seem to be prone to glue cracking. They do have gutter loss and they are like a mousetrap even after years of handling. Also, if you handle the vols just a bit, the foil embossing has a tendency to flake off. I even saw someone discuss this on YouTube and he showed the flaking in the store with new vols at B&N. I’m just going by the first 3 vols when I saw them in person, but my friend continued buying them through 2019 and eventually sold them and kept her single vols. Thankfully she did not sell off her singles prior to buying the hardcovers. I love hardcovers, but this is one instance where I had to pass. The singles(I have the box set)are the best choice, to me.

Thank you sooooooo much for doing this video! I desperately needed a comparison since I’ve been thinking about upgrading from the singles to Fullmetal editions

Every time i look into buying a series I always check to see if you have thoughts on the editions before doing so. Thanks so much for your awesome vid and thorough insight! You always answer all the questions i have

Just getting into manga collecting, these videos are super helpful! Thanks so much :D

Oh I’ll definitely go for the Fullmetal editions, they’re beautiful. It makes such a difference to have it printed on the white paper, the art just pops so much better.

Should be noted that if you're in Australia like me; The 18 Fullmetal volumes are gonna cost like $450. Which is absurd when for literally half that you can just buy the box set.

I got the box set really cheap a few years ago before the hardcovers started releasing, but i don't regret it. I love the covers and the spines of the singles. Almost every character is featured and it feels more personal and nostalgic when I watch them on the shelf.

I love these comparisons. Thank you!

No sé cómo llegué a ver este video, pero YouTube sabe lo que quiero y definitivamente tu vídeo me ayudó a poder elegir la opción más conveniente a la hora de coleccionar el manga de Fullmetal Alchemist.

Hot dang you make me want to buy it twice. This is an astoundingly informative video--thanks for putting it together!

Thanks for making unboxing and reviewing videos on manga

Good video, thoughtful, thorough, and concise, an excellent presentation of information.

Extremely professional presentation! Liked and subbed!

Honestly I like the rougher look of the single prints better. Yeah the contrast isn’t that high but that looks more like the nostalgic manga aesthetic to me than the white and harsh black line print of the fullmetal edition

Thanks so much for the heads up about binding issues with the hardcover editions I have the first three volumes haven’t started the series but I’ll just have to be careful to no open them all the way . Right now I’m on the third part of JJBA and found it’s the prefect way to just enjoy and laugh and turn off my over active philosophical pessimist brain . For a long time I was and still am an Osamu Tezuka fan but collectively his cannon catches up with me and I find it too bleak and depressing no urge to return .

The Fullmetal Edition is great, specially if they have revised the translation and lettering and selected a better quality pages. It also includes full color pages and rough sketches, that's cute. The pity is that we lose the final 4-panels of gags that includes the single edition in its final pages, but fortunately there is published a volume that compile almost all of them (it lost 2 panels per volume, but includes new gags from the DVDs and others). If you are interested, the title is Fullmetal Alchemist The Complete Four-Panel Comics from viz too and it cost 13 dollars without discounts.

Would like to add that the Fullmetal Editions are missing some extra side stories that are included in the singles, but those stories are very minor and aren't needed for the overall plot

YES! I WAS SO STOKED TO SEE THIS I DIDNT EVEN START THE VIDEO 🙌🏻

What a gem of a video. Started my hardcover collection recently.