Work · Manga · 2001–2010

Fullmetal Alchemist

Hiromu Arakawa, writer and artist

Publisher: Enix (2001–2003), later Square Enix (2003–2010); serialized in Monthly Shōnen Gangan
Units: 108 chapters, 27 collected volumes

Two brothers who lost their bodies attempting to bring their mother back through alchemy search for a philosopher's stone to restore themselves, and uncover a conspiracy at the heart of their own government along the way.

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Manga 2001–2010 → Anime 2009–2010 · Direct adaptationFullmetal Alchemist to Fullmetal Alchemist: BrotherhoodBones opens the broadcast with one invented episode, omits three of the manga's 27 source units, and adapts the other 24 through to Arakawa's own ending.93composite · editorial

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