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[Poll #379650]

This poll was born of my extreme Saturday midday boredom.

I was thinking about this (seriously and analytically, god knows why), and I think if all the alchemists in FMA could do alchemy without circles like Ed can, and if they were trained to fight in hand-to-hand combat like Ed and Al were, they'd be a better army than the ninjas. Primarily because they'd be more flexible and more adaptable-- you can transmute *anything* with alchemy as long as you have a good imagination to feed you ideas. The shinobi of Narutoverse have to learn individual techniques that, while powerful, are limited if you're not the Hokage or something.

But I think if you were to take all the state alchemists of FMAverse as they are right now (dependent on transmutation circles, and not all hand-to-hand fighters), and pit them against the ninjas, the ninjas would win cause they have Teh Stealth Powers that allow for espionage on a level the Amestris military could only dream about.

Then again there's the whole gun issue, which might seriously throw the shinobi for a loop, since projectile weapons don't exist in Narutoverse. Hmmmm.


I cross-posted this to fm_alchemist and chuunin. Heh heh hehh... let's see what people think.

WARNING: when commenting, MARK ALL MANGA SPOILERS, for both Naruto and FMA. I've still seen only the anime for FMA, and don't wish to be manga-spoiled. Thank you!

WARNING #2: vague Naruto spoilers to about episode 100 or so, FMA spoilers for approximately the first 22 episodes of the series.

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

yeah, but that doesn't change the fact that the knowledge of science and alchemy and how alchemy works is still what's needed. Good insight and hypnotism isn't enough-- they would have to read the alchemists mind and directly absorb years of study if they wanted to copy it.

[jasiri.livejournal.com]

With a single glance that brat Sasuke was able to partially copy knowledge of how to open the internal gates and how to magnificently increase his speed from Rock Lee

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

All of which he supposedly gained from watching Lee's physical movements, not reading Lee's mind.

[jasiri.livejournal.com]

but it's insight on mental actions, like how to open the gate, observed from physical actions.

[jasiri.livejournal.com]

the entirety of the anime.

and when i'm talking about lee's gates i'm talking about the knowledg it takes to open the initial gate, lotus gate, energy gate, etc