I find it absolutely insane

That this manga came out the same year as Fullmetal Alchemist is seemingly so unheard of these days. I can see so much of this manga in series like bleach, attack on titan, and my hero academia. Its like the awakened were rewritten into the arancar, the setting was reused by attack on titan, and izuku uses the same power siphoning to one body part. I know a lot of stories are derivitizations of previous stories, but its so interesting to finally read this manga and see such a strong "node" in this genre- Especially seeing that the node was such a strong, female-centered story!