Fullmetal Alchemist Has Been Transmuted Right into a WebToon

If you happen to’ve discovered your self fascinated by 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, absolutely coloured and formatted for vertical scrolling. The purpose is to make it extra accessible and develop 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 world head, known as Fullmetal ” the form of story that stays with you for all times. Bringing this iconic sequence to audiences provides each longtime followers and first-timers a brand new method 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 isn’t any stranger to re-releases: together with republished editions previously 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 yr 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 acceptable time.

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

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