Q8: Popular in Amestris, what is the day and month of “Meat Day”?

A: November 29th     B: February 9th

C: March 10th   D: Sig’s Birthday

B: February 9th

Column: By the way, it’s a play on the words ‘MEAT’ and ‘MEET’, and means ‘a day to go and meet meat’.

- Perfect Guidebook 2, pages 98 & 167.

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The word for 2 in Japanese is ‘ni’ (二) and the word for 9 is ‘ku’ (九) so together as 2/9 they make ‘niku’, the word for meat (肉). The sentence about going to meet meat is more wordplay in both Japanese and English, as it is written as “niku ni ai ni iku hi”, with ni iku (に行く), ‘to go’, being similar to niku as well.

The other answers are puns too. 11/29 is 1 1 2 9, i i ni ku, ‘good meat’ (いい肉) and 3/10 is mii to, ‘meat’ in English (ミート).

So basically,

Happy Meat Day!

As of today the last of the Timeskip zine preorders have been sent out so my etsy shop HummingflyStore will be reopening with extra zines as well as additional goodies a week from today on Saturday 6/12! :D

The shop will be selling the extra copies of the Timeskip zine, and will also carry the Full Stock of 14 Fullmetal Alchemist phone charms, including the brand new Father/Hohenheim charm!

In addition to those returning items, there will be several new products for sale, including the zine stretch goal sakura sticker sheet as well as some limited edition zine-exclusive goods that I designed, including the Very limited edition barry the chopper tote bag! 

Also a while back I ran some photo prints of various art pieces I’ve made over the years to see how I liked em which means I have a bit of extras left over - because of this the first 20 orders will come with a FREE random 4x6 photographic art print! There will also be an option to purchase 3 random art prints in the store~ :V

Finally, since I never got a chance to do a proper 11k follower giveaway lets go ahead and do that now!

Each like/reblog of this post will count as one entry, and before I open the shop next Saturday I’ll select winners!

1st place - 1 zine + all preorder goodies (postcard/sticker/nameplate) -or- 3 charms -or- full-body commission 

2nd place - 1 zine -or- 2 charms -or- painted bust commission

3rd place - 1 zine PDF -or- 1 charm  -or- sketch commission

Good luck! :D