The name Izumi means "spring" or "fountain" in Japanese. [1] Despite being officially introduced in Chapter 19, Izumi and Sig make a cameo in the background of Chapter 14 (and Episode 9 of Brotherhood, as well as Episode 23 of the 2003 series) at the train station behind Winry. Both...
But Izumi’s insights into stone went well beyond the technical details of how to work basalt and granite—extending into the animistic and philosophical underpinnings of what Noguchi called “that ritual of rocks which comes down to us through the Japanese from the dawn of history.”...