Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Key visual of the series, featuring brothers Edward (below) and Alphonse Elric (above)
鋼の錬金術師 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST
(Hagane no Renkinjutsushi)
Genre
Anime television series
Directed byYasuhiro Irie
Produced by
  • Hiroo Maruyama
  • Noritomo Yonai
  • Ryo Ōyama
  • Nobuyuki Kurashige
Written byHiroshi Ōnogi
Music byAkira Senju
StudioBones
Licensed by
Original networkJNN (MBS, TBS)
English network
Original run April 5, 2009 July 4, 2010
Episodes64 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Directed byYasuhiro Irie
Produced by
  • Noritomo Yonai
  • Ryo Ōyama
  • Nobuyuki Kurashige
Written byHiroshi Ōnogi
Music byAkira Senju
StudioBones
Licensed by
  • Crunchyroll[a]
    • NA: Aniplex of America
Released August 26, 2009 August 25, 2010
Runtime12–18 minutes
Episodes4 (List of episodes)
Anime film
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Japanese: 鋼の錬金術師 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST, Hepburn: Hagane no Renkinjutsushi) is a Japanese anime television series adapted from the original Fullmetal Alchemist manga series by Hiromu Arakawa. Produced by Bones, the series is directed by Yasuhiro Irie, written by Hiroshi Ōnogi and composed by Akira Senju. The series was conceived in order to create a faithful adaptation that directly follows the entire storyline of the original manga, after 2003's Fullmetal Alchemist anime series strayed away from it to tell its own story after running out of published manga material to adapt.

Production for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood began in 2008. The series was broadcast for sixty-four episodes on MBSTBS from April 2009 to July 2010. The series was first licensed in North America by Funimation and was broadcast English-dubbed on Adult Swim from February 2010 to September 2011. In 2016, Funimation lost the rights to the series and it was transferred to Aniplex of America.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood received critical acclaim, and is considered to be one of the best anime series of all time. Reviewers noted its faithfulness to the manga and its introduction of characters and plot details that were not present in the 2003 anime; the climactic episodes were also lauded for both their action scenes and moral messages.

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