Alchemist

While talking about Chinese and Japanese comics, I was amazed to find Euterpe beginning to watch the anime series of Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼之鍊金術師).

For sure a four-year-old girl could never comprehend the whole meaning of this masterpiece of Hiromu Arakawa (荒川弘). Nonetheless the story is attractive enough, so that I could take the chance and introduce the gang of Lust, Gluttony, Envy, Sloth, Wrath, Greed, and Pride.

Yes, the seven deadly sins.

Oh, and I also want to infuse into my daughter the very principle of exchange of equal value (等價交換): You have to pay - or give up - something in exchange for what you want.

PS. That rule of exchange is, unfortunately, Arakawa's romantic extrapolation of a basic chemistry principle. The original doctrine states that you can exchange an ion for another with the same electric charge.

Yes, in medicine, that's the drug known to us as resonium.