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Fullmetal Alchemist: Art & Companion Books
The Art of Fullmetal Alchemist: The Anime
Fullmetal Alchemist began as a manga series in Japan and quickly exploded into a world-wide anime hit. The cool and stylish artwork of the television program has now been compiled into a prestige format, hardcover book for both collectors and fans. Art inspired by the anime, along with initial character designs, cel art, and production notes--all this plus an interview with Yoshiyuki Itoh, the character designer for the anime. Face it true believers, it doesn't get better than this!
96 pages, Hardcover
First published June 30, 2004
About the author
Hiromu Arakawa
316 books2,685 followersHiromu Arakawa (author: 荒川弘) is a Japanese manga artist, best known for Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師 Hagane no renkinjutsushi).
Her real name is Hiromi Arakawa (荒川弘美).
Arakawa was born and raised on a dairy farm in Hokkaidō.
She thought of being a manga artist since she was little. After graduating high school, she took oil painting classes while working on her family's farm. During that time, she also created dōjinshi manga with her friends and drew yonkoma for a magazine. After eight years she moved to Tōkyō and started out as assistant writer for Hiroyuki Etō.
Her debut as manga artist is in 1999 with STRAY DOG. In 2001 she started working on her famous and award winning series Fullmetal Alchemist, that soon gets a successful anime adaptation.
Other works include Silver Spoon (銀の匙 Silver Spoon, Gin no saji Silver Spoon).
Her real name is Hiromi Arakawa (荒川弘美).
Arakawa was born and raised on a dairy farm in Hokkaidō.
She thought of being a manga artist since she was little. After graduating high school, she took oil painting classes while working on her family's farm. During that time, she also created dōjinshi manga with her friends and drew yonkoma for a magazine. After eight years she moved to Tōkyō and started out as assistant writer for Hiroyuki Etō.
Her debut as manga artist is in 1999 with STRAY DOG. In 2001 she started working on her famous and award winning series Fullmetal Alchemist, that soon gets a successful anime adaptation.
Other works include Silver Spoon (銀の匙 Silver Spoon, Gin no saji Silver Spoon).
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December 5, 2012
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This is the art book for the anime series Fullmetal Alchemist. If you're looking for the manga art book, there are The Art of Fullmetal Alchemist and The Art of Fullmetal Alchemist 2.
Full single and double page coloured character splash pages fill the book. There are no video screenshots, if there are, I must say I can't recognize them.
As the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist, Hiromu Arakawa didn't draw any of the illustrations in this book. They are all done by the animation artists. The result is a very clean and polished look, typical of Japanese anime. Also, the colours here are more saturated, but that's got to do with the medium. As I like the anime very much, I prefer this book over the manga art books.
At the end are a few pages of line drawings with the finished frame as comparison. There is an interview with the character designer Yoshiyuki Ito.
This book is not really that expensive and I think it's worth the money if you're a fan of Fullmetal Alchemist who happens to collect art books.
June 8, 2012
The anime is truly one of the most beautiful animes I've ever seen. The art is wonderful for it.
December 23, 2018
Nice and quality pictures inspired by the anime, along with some anime cels and an interview with character designer for the original, 2003 anime adaptation. I liked it.
May 23, 2022
The book is absolutely amazing.
January 31, 2024
Just a nice collection of official art from the original anime.
February 6, 2019
(This is a rating for art book #3; I'm posting it here, because #3 isn't on goodreads and I can't be bothered to add it.)
Most of the art in this book is really nice and clean, though a little repetitive: a lot of three-quarter compositions of Ed and Al (and sometimes other characters) with interesting poses; not many detailed backgrounds. I love the facial expressions, they are very expressive (ha!) and convey a lot of emotion. Some of the latter art pieces are of lower quality - or maybe that's just my opinion - the art style is very different, in any case.
My favourite pieces are the ones in which Ed and Al wear their German clothes, though I've always liked their regular designs as well.
Most of the art in this book is really nice and clean, though a little repetitive: a lot of three-quarter compositions of Ed and Al (and sometimes other characters) with interesting poses; not many detailed backgrounds. I love the facial expressions, they are very expressive (ha!) and convey a lot of emotion. Some of the latter art pieces are of lower quality - or maybe that's just my opinion - the art style is very different, in any case.
My favourite pieces are the ones in which Ed and Al wear their German clothes, though I've always liked their regular designs as well.
June 12, 2012
Muito bom!
Imagens de boa qualidade, do anime e no final a explicação passo a passo sobre como se "constroi" uma ilustração.
E com uma entrevista com o character designer da série Yoshiyuki Ito.
Um must buy para todos os fãs de Fullmetal Alchemist.
Imagens de boa qualidade, do anime e no final a explicação passo a passo sobre como se "constroi" uma ilustração.
E com uma entrevista com o character designer da série Yoshiyuki Ito.
Um must buy para todos os fãs de Fullmetal Alchemist.
September 2, 2013
Post-production promotional artwork, with a few pages of line-work added in for fun. Also includes an interview with the Character Designer from the anime.
January 15, 2016
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October 18, 2016their are still no words it was that good
October 12, 2007
Fullmetal Alchemist art collection
great drawings!!
great drawings!!
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