She gave birth to a daughter in 2007 and had her third child in January 2014. Reviews in general tend to ascribe the anime to children and the manga to teens and adults. Arakawa's simple, dark style and plot choices contrast with the anime's 'cartoony,' colorful rendering. One review explains that the manga is more 'emotional,' whereas the anime is more whimsical. Most reviewers distinguish between the manga and anime, which they attribute to differences in style and subject matter. When the second anime adaptation was reaching its ending, Arakawa showed director Yasuhiro Irie her plans for the manga's ending, making both end in near dates. The series won the 49th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category in 2004. However, she was not involved in the making of the script, so the anime has a different ending from the manga, which she developed further. When they were creating the first, Arakawa assisted them in its early development.

Fullmetal Alchemist has been adapted into two anime series by Bones. Some reviewers say that the combination of Arakawa's art style and the writing in Fullmetal Alchemist contribute to its dark thematic elements. The series spanned 108 chapters, with the last one published in July 2010, and the series was collected in twenty-seven volumes. In July 2001, Arakawa published the first chapter of Fullmetal Alchemist in Monthly Shōnen Gangan. She published one chapter of Shanghai Yōmakikai in Monthly Shōnen Gangan in 2000. Stray Dog won the ninth 21st Century 'Shōnen Gangan' Award. Her own career began with the publication of Stray Dog in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan in 1999. She began her career in the manga world as a Square Enix employee and assistant to Hiroyuki Etō, author of Mahōjin Guru Guru.

Īrakawa moved to Tokyo in the summer of 1999. During this time, she also created dōjinshi manga with her friends and drew yonkoma for a magazine. After graduating high school, she took oil painting classes once a month for seven years while working on her family's farm.

Arakawa thought about being a manga artist ever 'since was little' and during her school years, she would often draw on textbooks. She is also known for Silver Spoon (2011–2019) and the manga adaptation of The Heroic Legend of Arslan novels.īorn on May 8, 1973, in Tokachi, Hokkaidō, Japan, Arakawa was born and raised on a dairy farm with three elder sisters and a younger brother. She is best known for the manga series Fullmetal Alchemist (2001–2010), which became a hit both domestically and internationally, and was adapted into two anime television series. Hiromu Arakawa ( 荒川弘, Arakawa Hiromu, born May 8, 1973) is a Japanese manga artist.

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