Today with the range of anime created, we see that there is anime of various types. In this article we will address a specific case, anime with concepts of physics and chemistry. Let's talk about three anime in specific. Fullmetal Alchemist, Aldnoah Zero and Boku No Hero Academia.
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Fullmetal Alchemist
SynopsisA very famous anime with 2 versions, the most recent and complete one with 64 episodes that tells the story of 2 brothers who lose their mother and try to resurrect her with alchemy. Everything goes wrong and one loses his arm and leg while the younger one loses his body. The 2 embark on a long journey in search of the Philosopher's Stone to recover their bodies while a gigantic conspiracy unfolds in the country. If you haven't watched this masterpiece yet, watch it!
The first is an anime that has alchemy as a background, this was a predecessor of current chemistry, but it covered other sciences as a whole, in which this was the union between the scientific and religious environments. There are reports that this science emerged in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.
Their aim was to transform any metal into gold, the elixir of long life, and they would achieve this with the philosopher's stone, which was one of the reasons for so much study, the creation of humans in an artificial way. This way of practicing science soon collapsed, because it was hermetic and isoteric, not like chemistry and the sciences today where knowledge is available to anyone.
In the fullmetal alchemist world there is a law that governs every alchemist, if you want to obtain something, you will have to pay an equivalent price. This law is very similar to a statement by antoine de lavoisier which became a phrase that everyone knows, "in nature, nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed", this implies that one cannot create something from nothing, it requires something that originates it or serves as a basis, and neither can something be completely destroyed.
My Hero Academia
Synopsis: An apparently clichéd superhero anime but that has a great story and is among the most popular shounen currently.
Many of the powers present in this anime are explained by their holders in a scientific way, as in the case of the bakugou explaining its explosions because of a substance that it produces and controls its ignition and explodes. Or even in the case of the shout that his individuality in which one part of him creates ice and the other is flames, this can be explained as the ability he has to extract heat from one of his sides and thus become cold, he will stealing heat from the moisture in the air and thus condensing the water on your body and at the same time solidifying it. With this heat absorbed he can release this energy on his other side.
In a fight between shouto and midoriya, in their final clash, shouto decides to use his other half the hot side along with his cold side, in that they enter combat and end the battle with an explosion, teacher aisawa explains the air he had been cooled was heated all at once, causing this explosion. An explosion is basically a production of gas in a short space of time and the air expands proving an explosion.
Aldnoah Zero
Synopsis: It shows the political and war tensions between the humans living on Earth and those living in space. The anime is great and has one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard in my entire life composed by the legend. Hiroyuki Sawano.
Inaho in this anime stands out for being an intelligent and strategist character, in most of his mecha fights, his mecha has inferior technology. He wins by being smart. In one of several episodes where he uses logic.
He is fighting a Martian Kataphrakt where he uses electricity to defend himself and attack others, he arrives at his Earth Kataphrakt and his opponent tries to use electricity and he says “electricity flows from the highest potential to the lowest, its rays will not hit anything with the same electrical potential as you.” He uses scientific knowledge to take advantage of his enemy, according to that for there to be a flow of electric current there must be a potential difference.
Other anime that use scientific concepts
In the three anime discussed, we can see that there are many other scientific concepts to be studied. Not just in these three anime but in many others. Finally, let's go through a list of anime that use science as a basis:
- Jardim Vermelho;
- Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio;
- Moyashimon;
- Space Brothers;
- Ergo Proxy;
- Steamboy;
- Kaiba;
- Planetes
- Terror in Resonance;
- Chikyuu Shoujo Arjuna;
- Steins;Gate
