Celebrated mangaka Hiromu Arakawa is returning with a new series. Titled, Yomi no Tsugai, the series will run in Square Enix's Monthly Shonen Gangan magazine and is set to start serialization in January.
The manga will center on siblings Yuru and Asa who live surrounded by nature in a small mountain village. When Asa is forced to work at the village’s prison, Yuru accompanies her and the two learn that all is not as it seems in their remote hometown.
Arakawa is best known for her Full Metal Alchemist manga series, which 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 halfway. 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, TheSacred 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.
Viz Media publishes Full Metal Alchemist in English with Yen Press in charge of the digital distribution. Yen Press owns the publishing rights to her Silver Spoon series, while Kodansha USA distributes The Heroic Legend of Arslan.
Full Metal Alchemist is available to stream on Netflix, and Brotherhood can be found on Funimation and Crunchyroll as well. Funimation owns the streaming rights to Silver Spoon alongside The Heroic Legend of Arslan.
Source:Comic Natalie via Anime New Network