Fullmetal Alchemist Has Been Transmuted Right into a WebToon

When you’ve discovered your self fascinated with Fullmetal Alchemist recently and contemplating a re-read, WebToon’s bought you lined.

The updated take of Hiromu Arakawa’s shonen traditional will come to the digital comics platform, totally coloured and formatted for vertical scrolling. The intention is to make it extra accessible and increase 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 form of story that stays with you for all times. Bringing this iconic collection to audiences provides each longtime followers and first-timers a brand new approach to get pleasure from this story. Seeing it in full shade, reformatted for a digital studying expertise will make the enduring 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 trustworthy anime in 2009’s Brotherhood, and its saga was lined throughout a live-action movie trilogy launched in 2017 and 2022. This 12 months marks the fifteenth anniversary because the finish of the unique manga (on June 11, 2010) and Brotherhood (July 4, 2010), so the WebToon model’s popping out at an applicable time.

For these curious to see the way it seems, Fullmetal Alchemist will hit WebToon beginning Tuesday, Might 7. If you’d like 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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