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Because Arakawa was involved in the development of the anime, she was kept from focusing on the manga's cover illustrations and had little time to illustrate them. She helped the anime's development team with consultation for the characters and telling the overall story she had planned for her manga, helping them fill in some of the gaps to create the anime original ending of the 2003 series. Although she was not fully involved in all aspects of the 2003 series, she was directly involved in the production of it at a storywise standpoint, and as shown in the extras of Volume 8 of the manga. When watching the anime's ending, Arakawa stated that she was amazed about how different the homunculi creatures were from her manga and enjoyed how the staff speculated about the origins of the villains. She did not want to repeat the same ending in both media, and wanted to continue writing the manga to develop the characters at her own pace. She is defeated by the Elric brothers, who decide to stay in Germany.ĭuring the development of the Fullmetal Alchemist anime, Arakawa allowed Bones to work independently from her, and requested they produce an original ending different from that of the then ongoing manga. Dietlinde Eckhart, a member of the Thule Society, enters the other world and tries to destroy Amestris. The story concludes in the film adaptation Conqueror of Shamballa, in which Edward's search attracts the attention of the Thule Society, which seeks to enter his homeworld-believing it to be Shamballa-to obtain new weapons to help them in World War II. Determined to reunite with Alphonse, Edward becomes involved in rocketry research, intending to use that technology to return to his home world. After being revived, Edward risks his life to bring back his brother and finds himself in Munich, while Alphonse recovers his original body. Dante tries to escape, but she is killed when the homunculus Gluttony, whose mind she had earlier destroyed, fails to recognize his master. However, Alphonse uses the Philosopher's Stone to revive his brother but disappears in the process, along with Envy, who fails to stop him. Edward tries to rescue him, but is killed by Envy. When Scar creates the Philosopher's Stone, at the cost of his life as well as the lives of 7,000 soldiers, he infuses it into Alphonse's metal body, which leads to Alphonse's kidnapping. She thus uses the homunculi to encourage Edward and Alphonse, along with other equally desperate Alchemists to create another complete Philosopher's Stone for her.

Although Dante can still jump from body to body with the last stone she and Hohenheim created, she is not willing to risk the rebound of creating one herself. Hohenheim was eventually overcome with the guilt of sacrificing lives to make the Stone and left Dante. Centuries ago, Hohenheim and Dante perfected methods for making the Philosopher's Stone and achieved immortality by transferring their souls and intellects into other bodies as they age. Dante, a former lover of Hohenheim and mentor to the Elric brothers' teacher, is the series' central antagonist. However, the plots severely diverge from each other by the middle of the story, specifically around the time where Roy Mustang's friend Maes Hughes is murdered by the homunculus Envy in disguise. The first half of the anime's plot adapts the first seven volumes of the manga. See also: List of Fullmetal Alchemist characters

A second anime series, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, which faithfully adapted the entire storyline of the original manga, was broadcast in 2009.

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The first anime series concluded with a direct sequel film, Conqueror of Shamballa, released in 2005. This led to the series deviating into an entirely original storyline direction halfway through its run. During production, Arakawa requested an original ending for the anime that differed from the manga, which was still ongoing at the time. It was broadcast on MBS in Japan from October 2003 to October 2004.Īs in the manga, the series follows the adventures of brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric, who are searching for the Philosopher's Stone so they can regain the bodies they lost in a failed attempt to bring their dead mother back to life. Comprising 51 episodes, it was produced by the animation studio Bones for Mainichi Broadcasting System and Aniplex, and directed by Seiji Mizushima. Fullmetal Alchemist ( Japanese: 鋼の錬金術師, Hepburn: Hagane no Renkinjutsushi ) is a Japanese anime television series loosely adapted from the original manga series of the same name by Hiromu Arakawa.

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