Full Metal Alchemist Anime Picture

Full Metal Alchemist Anime Picture

"Hiromu Arakawa : The Alchemist (Creator)"

"Hiromu Arakawa : The Alchemist (Creator)"

Hiromu was born on May 8th, 1973 in Hokkaido (Japan) with an A blood type. She has stated she was risen at a farm in the country, which probably inspired her cow avatar as well as her "equivalent exchange" theory for her manga Fullmetal Alchemist.Her first work was a one-shot called STRAY DOG, which won the first prize in the 21st Century "Shounen Gangan" 9th Awards. In August 1999, this same work debuted in Gangan.
Her next works were Totsugeki Tonari no Enikkusu and Shanghai Youma Kikai (The Shanghai ghost mistery), both of them one-shots and published in Gangan during the year 2000.

Then, in 2001 (in the August issue of Gangan), the first chapter of Hagane no Renkinjutsushi (Fullmetal Alchemist) was published, becoming her first serialised manga and her greatest hit to date. In 2004, Arakawa-sensei received an award in the Shogakukan Manga Awards (Shounen Section) for it.

Fullmetal Alchemist is still being published, 4 years and 50 chapters after its first appearance, in Monthly Shounen Gangan. It's been compiled in 11 tankoubons (plus some side-stories published in other books, such as Perfect Guides or DX). From 2003 to 2004, the series was loosely adapted into a 51 episodes anime by Studio BONES. On the 23rd July 2005, a movie version titled Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Shamballa wo Yukumono (Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa) premiered at Japanese theaters, following up the anime storyline (which differs greatly from the manga).

In 2005, in the August edition of Monthly Sunday GX (the latest CLAMP work, Kobato, is published here), she released another one-shot titled RAIDEN-18 as a colaboration for this magazine's 5th anniversary.

source: http://www.roy-mustang.net/arakawa/about_arakawa.html (article).

"Full Metal Alchemist : The Philosopher's Stone? Hehe."

"Full Metal Alchemist : The Philosopher's Stone? Hehe."

Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師), is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. The world of Fullmetal Alchemist is styled after European Industrial Revolution. Set in a fictional universe in which alchemy is one of the most advanced scientific techniques known to man, the story follows the brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric, who want to restore their bodies after a disastrous failed attempt to bring their mother back to life through alchemy.

The manga is serialized in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan magazine (starting January 2001) and currently has 22 tankōbon volumes. It was adapted into an animated television series of 51 episodes by Bones from October 4, 2003 to October 2, 2004, later followed by a film sequel that concluded the story of the anime. Fullmetal Alchemist would later spawn a second series called Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, which first premiered in Japan on April 5, 2009. A multitude of spin-off novels, original video animations (OVAs), drama CDs, soundtracks, and video games have been adapted from the series. A collectible card game, multiple supplementary books, and a variety of action figures and other merchandise based on the characters of the series have also been released.

"Here Is the Spell..."

The rules of alchemy state that to gain something, one must lose something of equal value. Alchemy is the process of taking apart and reconstructing an object into a different entity, with the rules of alchemy to govern this procedure. However, there exists an object that can bring any alchemist above these rules, the object known as the Philosopher's Stone. The young Edward Elric is a particularly talented alchemist who through an accident years back lost his younger brother Alphonse and one of his legs. Sacrificing one of his arms as well, he used alchemy to bind his brother's soul to a suit of armor. This lead to the beginning of their journey to restore their bodies, in search for the legendary Philosopher's Stone.

source: Wikipedia.org and Myanimelist.net (article), google image search (pictures).