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Are the Elric brothers half-homunculus?

Note that Brotherhood and the 2003 series are separate continuities that often differ in their treatment of any plot points and characters that they have in common. Hohenheim is affected by this issue:...
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Can Alphonse sleep in FMA/FMA:B?

To simply answer your question. No he cannot sleep. I found the below referenced in the fma wikia here. Additionally, his armor body has several combat advantages including - strengthened offense ...
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About the physics of transmutation in FMA:B

You can find a lot of explanations about the energy in Fma wikia. In the 2003 anime, though it is never outright explained from where the energy in transmutation comes, alchemists who attempt to ...
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Can Alphonse sleep in FMA/FMA:B?

In chapter 15 of the manga there is a flashback in which Ed says referring to Alphonse:
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About the physics of transmutation in FMA:B

As you concluded, alchemy does require energy for a transmutation to take place. You mention that the energy comes from the departed souls travelling through the gates in the parallel universe, ...
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Why does Roy Mustang's flame alchemy work?

All we know about how Flame alchemy works is described in the question. As you note the description is incomplete. That being said, we do know that creating flames in this way is a very complicated ...
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Does the world on the other side of the gate exist for alchemy to exist?

Even when we fix a radio with alchemy . . . it takes a life or energy from this world to do it The explanation, as it is given to the viewer, isn't so much that this world exists for the purpose of ...
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Why does Greed in FMA (2003) want to know how to bind a soul to an armor?

This may not be mentioned in the anime but I am answering based on what I understood. Ling Yao at the very end of the brotherhood anime mentions to Greed that all he wanted was friends and ...
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Did Hiromu Arakawa have any input on the 2003 FMA?

It was directed by Seiji Mizushima, written by Shō Aikawa and co-produced by Bones, Mainichi Broadcasting System and Aniplex. Character designs by Yoshiyuki Itō. During the making of the anime, ...
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The Homunculi names in Full Metal Alchemist 2003

As far as I know, there is no certain canon answer but there are quite some hints. At the end of FMA03 we see Dante doing something to Gluttony removing his intelligence and personality and replacing ...
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What is the name of the song/piece playing in Full Metal Alchemist episode 6 at 6:48?

Pretty sure it's Despicable Acts of the Fullmetal Alchemist OST
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