A new website celebrating the 20th anniversary of Hiromu Arakawa's Fullmetal Alchemist manga opened on Thursday. The vengeance-scar.jp site features an image of its namesake, and will announce new projects related to the manga’s anniversary in the future.
The site also has a countdown that is set to end on March 2. Flyers with the same visual seen on the site are being distributed at movie theaters that are also in the same area featuring flyers for upcoming attractions relating to the 20th-anniversary project.
Arakawa’s Full Metal Alchemist manga series ran in Monthly Shonen Gangan from 2001 to 2010. The manga inspired various game adaptations, a light novel series that ran from 2003 to 2010, a 2017 live-action adaptation, and most notably, two different anime adaptations.
The first anime series, Full Metal Alchemist, aired in 2003 and was produced by Studio Bones. It ran for 51 episodes but deviated from the source material. The original narrative concluded with the release of the 2005 film, Conqueror of Shamballa.
Bones also produced the second anime series, Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood. The successor series aired in 2010 and ran for 64 episodes, this time adapting the entirety of the manga’s narrative. Brotherhood was generally received better than its predecessor and received an animated film, The Sacred Star of Milos, the year following its conclusion.
Arakawa began her career in 1999 with the release of her Stray Dog one-shot. Following the conclusion of Full Metal Alchemist, she would find success with another series, Silver Spoon, which ran in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine from 2011 to 2019. Arakawa is currently working on The Heroic Legend of Arslan, which began serialization in 2013. Arakawa launched a new series, Yomi no Tsugai, in Square Enix's Monthly Shonen Gangan magazine this past December.
Viz Media publishes Full Metal Alchemist in English with Yen Press in charge of the digital distribution. Yen Press owns the publishing rights to the Silver Spoon series, while Kodansha USA distributes The Heroic Legend of Arslan.
Source: Anime News Network