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While recovering, the pair is offered a chance to be students at a special academy that will give them a shot at becoming State Alchemists (“government-issued” alchemists). Ed and Al see this as an opportunity not only to better their understanding of alchemy, but also to further research human transmutation, hopefully to regain their former bodies. To do this they find they'll need an item that will amplify their abilities, the Philosopher's Stone. It's with this that their biggest adventure begins.
Don't let the pink fixation or resolutely sunny outlook fool you, Saiunkoku is neither stupid nor vacuous. True, in retrospect there is much that is unrealistic (starting with Shurei's becoming the royal consort). But each episode contains continuous plot elements, and the clues dropped as to the bigger picture are relatively subtle yet clear in their intent. Its relationships, for all their innocence, are complex and quietly affecting; and it has one of the most convincingly constructed 100% nice girls since Fruits Basket. Not bad for a pink show.
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