Fullmetal Alchemist Has Been Transmuted Into a WebToon

If you’ve found yourself thinking about Fullmetal Alchemist lately and considering a re-read, WebToon’s got you covered.

The updated take of Hiromu Arakawa’s shonen classic will come to the digital comics platform, fully colored and formatted for vertical scrolling. The aim is to make it more accessible and expand its reach, and joins other notable IP like DC Comics and Dropout’s Dimension 20 in coming to WebToon in recent years. Yongsoo Kim, WebToon’s global head, called Fullmetal ” the kind of story that stays with you for life. Bringing this iconic series to audiences gives both longtime fans and first-timers a new way to enjoy this story. Seeing it in full color, reformatted for a digital reading experience will make the iconic story more accessible and immersive than ever.”

Fullmetal Alchemist is no stranger to re-releases: along with republished editions in the past few years, it was retold as a more faithful anime in 2009’s Brotherhood, and its saga was covered across a live-action film trilogy released in 2017 and 2022. This year marks the 15th anniversary since the end of the original manga (on June 11, 2010) and Brotherhood (July 4, 2010), so the WebToon version’s coming out at an appropriate time.

For those curious to see how it turns out, Fullmetal Alchemist will hit WebToon starting Tuesday, May 7. If you want more of Arakawa’s work, she’s currently writing and drawing the manga Daemons of the Shadow Realm and did character design for Netflix’s Moonrise anime.

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