Recently I played a shogi game with a Spanish person who lives in France now at Kurnik - online multilanguage game server. He told me that he got to know shogi through manga such as Fullmetal Alchemist. I looked into that today and found the followings;
Heyman's Breda, one of the characters, is very good at strategy games. According to the page of State Military Characters of the Fullmetal Alchemist Manga in Wikipedia, He's an intellectual, number one graduated from military academy, despite his face and postures (who suggest him as rather brutish man) and has talents for strategy games, including chess, go, and shogi.
The Episode 27 of the anime has a shogi scene that Heymans Breda plays a shogi with one of the members of the State Military.
The volume 6 of the manga has a shogi scenes. There are some quiz including shogi in Fullmetal Alchemist vol.6 Manga Quiz
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