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Originally Posted by Asakura_Y0h

whoa.... now you really caught my attention here..... if you don't wanna spoil it for everyone then just msg me privately..... cos.. i wanna know!

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what do you mean there's a reason that they can't transmute it? you mean that all this while the reason why he can do alchemy without a resenjin is that there is a built in circle? its not his own power? is this in the manga cos if it is i wanna read it...

Warning: major future spoiler below!

Spoiler:

According to the manga.... since Ed bound Al's soul to the suit armor (with blood???... not sure on that one), Ed "must" recreate the suit of armor (he takes it upon himself- ch 8?) . To do this, he needs his arm back (again, its automail, a new one can be made) ( this is basically all of vol 3). As is explained in 15 (which the anime and manga kept the same explanation), he creates an energy arc between his to hands to do alchemy without a circle. I cant give a valid explanation for why they cant recreate automail with alchemy.

But considering how badly they buthered the whole marcoh (yes, its marcoh with an h) thing, who knows what bones is going to do for vol 3. The anime was completely off from the manga for ep 15. There may be one, but i do not recall anything between scar's arm and the stone marcoh had in the manga.