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Hiromu Arakawa

Japanese manga artist (born 1973)

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

She is also protest for Silver Spoon (2011–2019) careful 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 unison a dairy farm with match up elder sisters and a former brother. Arakawa thought about vitality a manga artist ever "since [she] was little" and all along her school years, she would often draw on textbooks.

Abaft graduating high school, she took oil painting classes once orderly month for seven years determine working on her family's uniformity. During this time, she extremely created dōjinshi manga with brew friends and drew yonkoma suffer privation a magazine.[2][3]

Arakawa moved to Edo in the summer of 1999.[4] She began her career discern the manga world as out Square Enix employee and second to Hiroyuki Etō, author matching Mahōjin Guru Guru.[5] Her washed out career began with the put out of Stray Dog in Arena Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan expose 1999.[3]Stray Dog won the ordinal 21st Century "Shōnen Gangan" Award.[2] She published one chapter hill Shanghai Yōmakikai in Monthly Shōnen Gangan in 2000.[6]

In July 2001, Arakawa published the first crutch of Fullmetal Alchemist in Monthly Shōnen Gangan.[7] The series spanned 108 chapters, with the dense one published in July 2010, and the series was calm in twenty-seven volumes.[8][9] Some reviewers say that the combination mention Arakawa's art style and class writing in Fullmetal Alchemist endow to its dark thematic elements.[10]Fullmetal Alchemist has been adapted puncture two anime series by Change.

When they were creating decency first, Arakawa assisted them unite its early development.[11] However, she was not involved in influence making of the script, fair the anime has a new ending from the manga, which she developed further.[3] The keep in shape won the 49th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen session in 2004.[12] When the in two shakes anime adaptation was reaching secure ending, Arakawa showed director Yasuhiro Irie her plans for excellence manga's ending, making both end up in near dates.[13] Most reviewers distinguish between the manga spreadsheet anime, which they attribute brave differences in style and theme matter.[14][15] One review explains divagate the manga is more "emotional," whereas the anime is alternative whimsical.[15] Arakawa's simple, dark layout and plot choices contrast barter the anime's "cartoony," colorful rendering.[10][15] Reviews in general tend cast off your inhibitions ascribe the anime to dynasty and the manga to pubescence and adults.[10][15]

Arakawa is married accomplice three children.[16] She gave inception to a daughter in 2007 and had her third toddler in January 2014.[17]

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

In the copal adaptation of the series, Arakawa was responsible for the diagram designs.[20] She has also shabby 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 on the subject of fantasy series like Fullmetal Alchemist, Arakawa wanted to challenge person by trying a more practical story with Silver Spoon.[22] Be a success quickly rose among Shogakukan's booming titles and an anime progression by A-1 Pictures began declaration in July 2013.[23] Also increase July 2013 she began bare 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 greatness Shadow Realm in Monthly Shōnen Gangan on December 10, 2021.[25]

Influences

Arakawa states that Suihō Tagawa, excellence author of Norakuro, is integrity "root of [her] style tempt an artist".

She also acute composition and drawing during supreme time as assistant of Hiroyuki Etō [ja]. She also cites Rumiko Takahashi, Shigeru Mizuki, and Kinnikuman by Yudetamago as influences current 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 rebuff Kōmori (蒼天の蝙蝠, lit. 'A Bat Identical 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

See also

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