My best friend showed me this series in Shonen Jump one time(Shes a animefanatic BTW) and I was really interested in it. Later it donned on me that I had the demo for Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Curse of the Crimson Elixer on a ps2 demo disc, so I popped in the disc played through the demo and went "wow. that was cool." Ive been reading it ever since 😮💨