Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

=Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood=


 * Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is the second anime adaptation developed by Bones based on the Fullmetal Alchemist manga by Hiromu Arakawa and is directed by Yasuhiro Irie and written by Hiroshi Ōnogi. It was first announced in the manga series' 20th tankōbon volume.[1] [2]  The series premiered on April 5, 2009, on MBS-TBS' Sunday 5:00 pm JST anime time block, replacing Mobile Suit Gundam 00, and ran weekly until airing its final episode on July 4, 2010. Voice actors Romi Park and Rie Kugimiya reprised their roles as main characters Edward and Alphonse Elric, respectively.[3]  The series is much more similar to the manga, unlike the 2003 anime.

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 four days after they air in Japan. Madman Entertainment will also stream it "within days" of the episodes airing in Japan.[5]  On February 13, 2010, the English dubbed version of the series began its run on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and May 26, 2012 and Still Continued in 2013 and on December 13, 2014, this has been expired on Toonami.