Fullmetal Alchemist Has Been Transmuted Right into a WebToon

For those who’ve discovered your self eager about Fullmetal Alchemist recently and contemplating a re-read, WebToon’s obtained you lined.

The updated take of Hiromu Arakawa’s shonen basic will come to the digital comics platform, absolutely coloured and formatted for vertical scrolling. The intention is to make it extra accessible and broaden its attain, and joins different notable IP like DC Comics and Dropout’s Dimension 20 in coming to WebToon in recent times. Yongsoo Kim, WebToon’s international head, known as Fullmetal ” the type of story that stays with you for all times. Bringing this iconic sequence to audiences offers each longtime followers and first-timers a brand new technique to take pleasure in this story. Seeing it in full colour, reformatted for a digital studying expertise will make the long-lasting story extra accessible and immersive than ever.”

Fullmetal Alchemist is not any stranger to re-releases: together with republished editions prior to now few years, it was retold as a extra devoted anime in 2009’s Brotherhood, and its saga was lined throughout a live-action movie trilogy launched in 2017 and 2022. This yr marks the fifteenth anniversary for the reason that finish of the unique manga (on June 11, 2010) and Brotherhood (July 4, 2010), so the WebToon model’s popping out at an acceptable time.

For these curious to see the way it seems, Fullmetal Alchemist will hit WebToon beginning Tuesday, Could 7. If you need extra of Arakawa’s work, she’s at present writing and drawing the manga Daemons of the Shadow Realm and did character design for Netflix’s Moonrise anime.

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