Can I interest you in a manga? I've been enjoying the hell out of Fullmetal Alchemist. I watched the whole anime and loved it, then picked up the manga in a ho-hum sort of way, because it was there, and I thought I might as well go digging for extra world-building details, since I want to write fic. And fell tail over tea kettle. It's WONDERFUL. Sly and geeky and goofy and badass in a way the anime only hints at, for all it's the same story.