
She runs to Cornello, the Elrics close behind, and Cornello releases a chimera on them. Rosé, a girl the brothers meet, is traumatized after witnessing Al's lack of a human body. Threatened, Cornello orders Cray to kill them. Realizing that he is performing alchemy and ignoring the law of equivalent exchange, they believe that he possesses the philosopher's stone, which they have been searching for to restore Al's body. In the present, the brothers arrive at the desert town of Lior, where they hear about a religious leader named Father Cornello who can perform miracles. As a consequence, Al disappears, Ed loses his left leg and his right arm, and a grotesque figure appears in the transmutation circle. In a flashback, the Elric brothers Edward and Alphonse attempt to perform an alchemical transmutation in the hopes of resurrecting their late mother, but fail. Transcription: " Taiyō ni Idomu Mono" ( Japanese: 太陽に挑む者) The DVD releases from Funimation include all openings in their original places and format. All episodes that originally opened with "Melissa" and "Undo" had "Ready Steady Go" shown in place of those songs on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and YTV's Bionix. "Kesenai Tsumi" ( 消せない罪, "Indelible Sin") by Nana Kitade is used for episodes 2–13, "Tobira no Mukō e" ( 扉の向うへ, "Beyond the Door") by Yellow Generation is used for episodes 14–25, episodes 26–41 use "Motherland" by Crystal Kay for the ending, and "I Will" by Sowelu is used for episodes 42–50. For episode 1, the ending is "Melissa" by Porno Graffitti. "Melissa" by Porno Graffitti is used during episodes 2–13, " Ready Steady Go" by L'Arc-en-Ciel is used during episodes 14–25, "Undo" by Cool Joke is used during episodes 26–41, and " Rewrite" by Asian Kung-Fu Generation is used for the last 10 episodes. The music score was composed and arranged by Michiru Oshima. Each of the theme songs was performed by artists under Sony Music Entertainment Japan's label, whose anime distribution unit, Aniplex, handled the production and music production for the series. Įight pieces of theme music are used for the episodes-four opening themes and four ending themes. It includes the first anime of 51 episodes, the film, the CD soundtracks, and guidebooks from the series. During January from 2009, Bones released a "DVD box archives" of the anime. Funimation acquired and dubbed the Premium Collection, which was released on August 4, 2009. In March 2006 a DVD featuring the OVAs was released in Japan with the name of Fullmetal Alchemist: Premium Collection. MVM had released the first eight volumes in the United Kingdom however, Funimation gave the rights over to Revelation Films.
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Funimation also released the same series of DVDs from February 8, 2005, to September 12, 2006, in the United States. The first series has been released in a series of thirteen DVDs from December 17, 2003, to January 26, 2005, in Japan. Brotherhood is an independent second anime series adaptation that directly follows all the events of the original manga, and is not related to the first anime series. In 2009, a new anime, titled Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood for the English release, started broadcast on MBS and TBS, being directed by Yasuhiro Irie. The majority of these OVAs are side stories and do not expand on the plot. A series of five original video animations (OVAs) were also released.

A theatrical release titled Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa, a sequel to the television series, premiered in Japanese theaters on Jand it premiered in the U.S. It later aired on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block in the United States from November 7, 2004, through March 19, 2006.

Produced by Bones and directed by Seiji Mizushima, Fullmetal Alchemist was first aired on TBS Television in Japan from October 4, 2003, to October 2, 2004. Set in a fictional universe in which alchemy is one of the most advanced scientific techniques, the story follows two alchemist brothers named Edward and Alphonse Elric, who want to recover parts of their bodies lost in an attempt to bring their mother back to life through alchemy. Fullmetal Alchemist volume one DVD cover by Funimationįullmetal Alchemist is an anime series loosely adapted from the manga of the same title by Hiromu Arakawa.
