Me, at the start of FMA: B: oh man it’s so cool that Central is shaped like a transmutation circle. What a nifty little extra nod to alchemy by the designers.
Amestris is an absolutely wild place. They have 1950s cars and a stratocracy and name their kids shit like Hoenheim and Alphonse, but then you’ve got crazy magic science nonsense and Roy Mustang and Riza Hawkeye. Winry can make a metal arm that is connected directly to Ed’s nerves and somehow transcends everything we know about biotech, but they still ride horses and rely on WWII era means of communication. What…. what’s going on here