Viz Changes to FMA Draw Usual Fire

Anime News Network has been tracking yet another instance of an American manga publisher editing one of their books in some way for content, this time a couple of snippets in volume eight of Viz's Full Metal Alchemist (story, survey, discussion). In the last few years, the desire for publishers to have material that will not bring them problems due to their content has clashed multiple times with American manga fans' desire for as purely an authentic experience as they can get.

This one's specifically interesting in that Full Metal Alchemist is a major title, Viz has until now I think enjoyed a reputation as a publisher that didn't change material, the changes are small enough for a minority I-don't-care reaction to perhaps surface, and what was changed wasn't sexual material but background religious iconography, which I find weird.
 
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