Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2009)

Original title

鋼の錬金術師 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST

Directed by

Yasuhiro Irie

Genre

steampunk, dark fantasy, adventure anime, supernatural anime, coming-of-age anime and manga, anti-war fiction

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 64 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

8.7 of 10 from 2,505 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two brothers use alchemy to try to bring their mother back from the dead. The experiment goes horribly wrong and they lose their bodies. They set out on a journey to find the Philosopher's Stone to restore what they lost.

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What happens

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Japanese: 鋼の錬金術師 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST, Hepburn: Hagane no Renkinjutsushi) is a Japanese anime television series, serving as the second animated adaptation of the manga series Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa, after the 2003 anime series. Produced by Bones, the series was directed by Yasuhiro Irie and written by Hiroshi Ōnogi, with music composed by Akira Senju. It was conceived to create a faithful adaptation that directly follows the entire story from the original manga, as the first anime adaptation strayed away from it to create a story exclusive to that series after running out of published manga material to adapt. Production for Brotherhood began in 2008. The series aired a total of 64 episodes on MBS, TBS and its affiliates from April 2009 to July 2010. It was originally licensed in North America by Funimation and broadcast English dubbed on Adult Swim in the United States from February 2010 to September 2011. In March 2016, Funimation's license for the series expired and it was transferred over to Aniplex of America. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood has received acclaim since its initial airing and is regarded as one of the greatest anime series of all time, with praise given to its faithfulness to the manga and its incorporation of characters and plot details that were not present in the 2003 anime series, either due to unpublished manga material or creative changes to accommodate the former; the climactic episodes were also lauded for both their action sequences and moral messaging. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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