Sorry, I deleted the above because I accidentally hit post before I was finished.
I don't know about anime homunculi vs. manga homunculi. They're very different from each other and I like bits of both.
In the manga, though, they are not humans nor were they based on humans. (Two exceptions to the rule, one of which is Bradley and the other which is spoiler.) I can't remember their motivations in the anime, but in the manga, they are LITERAL incarnations of sin. As in, the big evil dude wanted to become 'perfect' and so removed the sin from his body. Because of this, the homunculi have very clear cut motivations and personalities.
I am going to try to find for you a manga page that will give you an idea of how homunculi are presented in the manga...
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carisma_sensei
Re: Hikaru no... Go? Is that a pun or something?
Date: 2012-04-02 09:00 pm (UTC)I don't know about anime homunculi vs. manga homunculi. They're very different from each other and I like bits of both.
In the manga, though, they are not humans nor were they based on humans. (Two exceptions to the rule, one of which is Bradley and the other which is spoiler.) I can't remember their motivations in the anime, but in the manga, they are LITERAL incarnations of sin. As in, the big evil dude wanted to become 'perfect' and so removed the sin from his body. Because of this, the homunculi have very clear cut motivations and personalities.
I am going to try to find for you a manga page that will give you an idea of how homunculi are presented in the manga...