Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

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This article is about the second Fullmetal Alchemist anime series. For the first Fullmetal Alchemist anime series' Volume 13 DVD, see Volume 13: Brotherhood.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, the readaptation of the original anime, began airing in Japan on 5th of April. Bones produces the new series with Yasuhiro Irie as director and Hiroshi Ōnogi as writer.^[1][2] The series premiered on April 5, 2009 on MBS-TBS' Sunday 5:00 pm JST anime timeblock, replacing Mobile Suit Gundam 00, and that voice actors Romi Park and Rie Kugimiya reprised their roles as main characters Edward and Alphonse Elric respectively.^[3] On March 20, 2009, it was announced that the English title of the series was Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and that it would receive its English language premiere on Animax Asia, with Japanese audio and English subtitles, from April 10, 2009 at 8:30 p.m, five days after its Japanese premiere.^[4] On April 3, 2009, Funimation announced they would stream English subtitled episodes 4 days after they air in Japan. Madman Entertainment will also stream it "within days" of the episodes airing in Japan.^[5]

Contents 1 Staff 2 Cast 3 Theme Songs 4 Notes 5 External Links

[edit] Staff

• Director: Yasuhiro Irie
• Series Composition: Hiroshi Ohnogi
• Music: Akira Senju
• Original creator: Hiromu Arakawa
• Character Design: Hiroki Kanno
• Art director: Takeshi Satou
• Art design: Kazushige Kanehira
• Sound director: Masafumi Mima
• Color design: Soko Nakao
• Design: Shinji Aramaki

[edit] Cast

• Rie Kugimiya as Alphonse Elric
• Romi Paku as Edward Elric
• Megumi Takamoto as Winry Rockbell
• Shinichiro Miki as Roy Mustang
• Biichi Satou as Heymans Breda
• Fumiko Orikasa as Riza Hawkeye
• Hidekatsu Shibata as King Bradley
• Hiroyuki Yoshino as Kimbly
• Kaori Nazuka as Maria Ross
• Keiji Fujiwara as Maes Hughes
• Kenji Hamada as Vato Falman
• Kenji Utsumi as Alex Louis Armstrong
• Kenta Miyake as Scar
• Kikuko Inoue as Lust
• Kouichi Yamadera as Isaac McDougal
• Minami Takayama as Envy
• Misato Fukuen as Elicia Hughes
• Tetsu Shiratori as Gluttony
• Tetsuya Kakihara as Kain Fuery
• Tomoe Hanba as Gracia Hughes
• Yuji Ueda as Jean Havoc
• Mamoru Miyano as Ling Yao

[edit] Theme Songs

• Opening Theme:

1. 1: "Again" by YUI

1. 2: "Hologram" by NICO Touches the Wall

1. 3: "Golden Time Lover" by Sukima Switch

• Ending Theme:

1. 1: "嘘 - Uso (Lie)" by SID

1. 2: "Let it Out" by Miho Fukuhara

1. 3: "Tsunai Da Te" by LilB

• Insert Songs

"Let it Out" by Miho Fukuhara (Ep. 27)

[edit] Notes

While this anime is supposed to be closer to the manga than the original, it has some clear differences, including but not limited to:

• The introduction of exclusive characters (Isaac McDougal, the Ice Alchemist)
• Earlier introductions of characters (Kimbly, Father is shown for a few seconds in episode 1)
• Different settings for the first episode
• The masked man from Ed and Al's training is not shown
• The whole mining town ordeal introducing Yoki is skipped

[edit] External Links

• ANIMAX Asia's Microsite for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
• Fullmetal Alchemist Official Website (Japanese)
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood on Anime News Network

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