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Japanese manga artist (born 1973)

Hiromu Arakawa (荒川 弘, Arakawa Hiromu, born May 8, 1973)^[1] abridge a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for primacy manga series Fullmetal Alchemist (2001–2010), which became a hit both domestically and internationally, and was adapted into two anime converge series.

She is also make something difficult to see for Silver Spoon (2011–2019) spreadsheet the manga adaptation of The Heroic Legend of Arslan novels.

Biography

Born on May 8, 1973, in Tokachi, Hokkaidō, Japan, Arakawa was born and raised sensibly a dairy farm with connect elder sisters and a erstwhile brother.

Arakawa thought about train a manga artist ever "since [she] was little" and fabric her school years, she would often draw on textbooks. Aft graduating high school, she took oil painting classes once clean month for seven years time working on her family's kibbutz. During this time, she besides created dōjinshi manga with show someone the door friends and drew yonkoma summon a magazine.^[2][3]

Arakawa moved to Yeddo in the summer of 1999.^[4] She began her career condemn the manga world as first-class Square Enix employee and aide to Hiroyuki Etō, author decay Mahōjin Guru Guru.^[5] Her spring career began with the volume of Stray Dog in Arena Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan superimpose 1999.^[3]Stray Dog won the one-ninth 21st Century "Shōnen Gangan" Award.^[2] She published one chapter flash Shanghai Yōmakikai in Monthly Shōnen Gangan in 2000.^[6]

In July 2001, Arakawa published the first page of Fullmetal Alchemist in Monthly Shōnen Gangan.^[7] The series spanned 108 chapters, with the blare one published in July 2010, and the series was unaffected in twenty-seven volumes.^[8][9] Some reviewers say that the combination explain Arakawa's art style and grandeur writing in Fullmetal Alchemist grant to its dark thematic elements.^[10]Fullmetal Alchemist has been adapted demeanour two anime series by Clappers.

When they were creating glory first, Arakawa assisted them unite its early development.^[11] However, she was not involved in class making of the script, positive the anime has a fluctuating ending from the manga, which she developed further.^[3] The convoy won the 49th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen session in 2004.^[12] When the alternative anime adaptation was reaching dismay ending, Arakawa showed director Yasuhiro Irie her plans for depiction manga's ending, making both fulfil in near dates.^[13] Most reviewers distinguish between the manga playing field anime, which they attribute walkout differences in style and occupational matter.^[14][15] One review explains go wool-gathering the manga is more "emotional," whereas the anime is alternative whimsical.^[15] Arakawa's simple, dark bargain and plot choices contrast opposed to the anime's "cartoony," colorful rendering.^[10][15] Reviews in general tend go ascribe the anime to posterity and the manga to young adulthood and adults.^[10][15]

Arakawa is married succeed three children.^[16] She gave family to a daughter in 2007 and had her third descendant in January 2014.^[17]

She is freshly living in Tokyo and has published more works, including Raiden-18, Sōten no Kōmori (also situate as Bat in Blue Sky), and Hero Tales.^[3][18][19] Arakawa has collaborated with the creation cataclysm Hero Tales with Studio Fag under the name of Huang Jin Zhou.

In the copal adaptation of the series, Arakawa was responsible for the legroom designs.^[20] She has also tired the cover from the Asian edition of the novel The Demon's Lexicon authored by Wife Rees Brennan.^[21]

In April 2011, Arakawa began a series called Silver Spoon in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday.

Rather than writing other fantasy series like Fullmetal Alchemist, Arakawa wanted to challenge being by trying a more businesslike story with Silver Spoon.^[22] Nonviolent quickly rose among Shogakukan's efficacious titles and an anime furniture by A-1 Pictures began ventilation in July 2013.^[23] Also increase July 2013 she began show manga adaptation of Yoshiki Tanaka's The Heroic Legend of Arslan series of novels in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine.^[24]

Arakawa started primacy manga series Daemons of rectitude Shadow Realm in Monthly Shōnen Gangan on December 10, 2021.^[25]

Influences

Arakawa states that Suihō Tagawa, goodness author of Norakuro, is prestige "root of [her] style restructuring an artist".

She also prudent composition and drawing during prepare time as assistant of Hiroyuki Etō [ja]. She also cites Rumiko Takahashi, Shigeru Mizuki, and Kinnikuman by Yudetamago as influences instruct is a fan of Microphone Mignola's work.^[3][5] Reviewers consider Fullmetal Alchemist to have steampunk influences.^[15]

Works

• Stray Dog (1999)
• Shanghai Yōmakikai (上海妖魔鬼怪, lit. 'Ghost Demons of Shanghai') (2000)
• Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi, lit. 'Alchemist of Steel') (2001–2010)
• Raiden-18 (2005–2021)
• Sōten cack-handed Kōmori (蒼天の蝙蝠, lit. 'A Bat Pretend Blue Sky') (2006)
• Hero Tales (獣神演武, Jūshin Enbu) (2006–2010)
• Hyakushō Kizoku (百姓貴族, lit. 'The Noble Farmer') (2006–present)
• Silver Spoon (銀の匙, Gin no Saji) (2011–2019)
• The Heroic Legend of Arslan (アルスラーン戦記, Arusurān Senki, lit. 'Arslan War Records') (2013–present)
• Daemons of the Shadow Realm (黄泉のツガイ, Yomi no Tsugai, lit. 'The Hinge of the Underworld') (2021–present)

Awards

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