Fullmetal Alchemist Has Been Transmuted Into a WebToon

If you’ve recovered yourself reasoning astir Fullmetal Alchemist lately and considering a re-read, WebToon’s got you covered.

The updated take of Hiromu Arakawa’s shonen classical volition travel to the integer comics platform, afloat colored and formatted for vertical scrolling. The purpose is to marque it much accessible and grow its reach, and joins different notable IP similar DC Comics and Dropout’s Dimension 20 successful coming to WebToon successful caller years. Yongsoo Kim, WebToon’s planetary head, called Fullmetal ” the benignant of communicative that stays with you for life. Bringing this iconic bid to audiences gives some longtime fans and first-timers a caller mode to bask this story. Seeing it successful afloat color, reformatted for a integer speechmaking acquisition volition marque the iconic communicative much accessible and immersive than ever.”

Fullmetal Alchemist is nary alien to re-releases: on with republished editions successful the past fewer years, it was retold arsenic a much faithful anime successful 2009’s Brotherhood, and its saga was covered crossed a live-action movie trilogy released successful 2017 and 2022. This twelvemonth marks the 15th day since the extremity of the archetypal manga (on June 11, 2010) and Brotherhood (July 4, 2010), truthful the WebToon version’s coming retired astatine an due time.

For those funny to spot however it turns out, Fullmetal Alchemist will deed WebToon starting Tuesday, May 7. If you privation much of Arakawa’s work, she’s presently penning and drafting the manga Daemons of the Shadow Realm and did quality plan for Netflix’s Moonrise anime.

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