Studio Bones Likes Money, Decides to Make More Fullmetal Alchemist
Big, big news for anime fans. On the new volume of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga in Japan, on the obi?the little slip of paper which surrounds most books in Japan?there’s an announcement of a brand-new Fullmetal Alchemist anime. This confirms that leaked Bones doc which mentioned such a series, and which Bones president Masahiko Minami totally denied (the doc also said there’d be another Darker Than Black series, which is also clearly going to happen). The new FMA will supposedly follow the manga more than the anime, which did its own thing after about the first 20-ish episodes. So does that mean they’ll star from the divergence, or start over, even though they’ve covered the first seven or so manga volumes? I have no idea.
This is good news for fans and a select portion of the global anime industry, as Fullmetal Alchemist was one of the last non-Shonen Jump series (i.e., Naruto, Bleach) to turn a decent profit in either Japan or America. (Via ANN and Gia)
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