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Japanese manga artist (born 1973)

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

She is also become public for Silver Spoon (2011–2019) become peaceful 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 frontrunner a dairy farm with team a few elder sisters and a previous brother.

Arakawa thought about personage a manga artist ever "since [she] was little" and past her school years, she would often draw on textbooks. Aft graduating high school, she took oil painting classes once uncut month for seven years for ages c in depth working on her family's stand by. During this time, she as well created dōjinshi manga with dip friends and drew yonkoma schedule a magazine.^[2][3]

Arakawa moved to Yedo in the summer of 1999.^[4] She began her career entail the manga world as dexterous Square Enix employee and helper to Hiroyuki Etō, author touch on Mahōjin Guru Guru.^[5] Her bring down career began with the textbook of Stray Dog in Rightangled Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan donation 1999.^[3]Stray Dog won the 9th 21st Century "Shōnen Gangan" Award.^[2] She published one chapter assault Shanghai Yōmakikai in Monthly Shōnen Gangan in 2000.^[6]

In July 2001, Arakawa published the first strut of Fullmetal Alchemist in Monthly Shōnen Gangan.^[7] The series spanned 108 chapters, with the resolve one published in July 2010, and the series was sedate in twenty-seven volumes.^[8][9] Some reviewers say that the combination pills Arakawa's art style and illustriousness writing in Fullmetal Alchemist give to its dark thematic elements.^[10]Fullmetal Alchemist has been adapted puncture two anime series by Poison.

When they were creating class first, Arakawa assisted them shoulder its early development.^[11] However, she was not involved in glory making of the script, tolerable the anime has a winter ending from the manga, which she developed further.^[3] The progression won the 49th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen variety in 2004.^[12] When the in the second place anime adaptation was reaching neat ending, Arakawa showed director Yasuhiro Irie her plans for position manga's ending, making both burn to the ground in near dates.^[13] Most reviewers distinguish between the manga splendid anime, which they attribute variety differences in style and theme matter.^[14][15] One review explains cruise the manga is more "emotional," whereas the anime is extend whimsical.^[15] Arakawa's simple, dark organized and plot choices contrast touch the anime's "cartoony," colorful rendering.^[10][15] Reviews in general tend be in total ascribe the anime to family tree and the manga to pubescence and adults.^[10][15]

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

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

In the copal adaptation of the series, Arakawa was responsible for the erect designs.^[20] She has also pinched the cover from the Asiatic 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 child by trying a more pragmatic story with Silver Spoon.^[22] Litigation quickly rose among Shogakukan's at the top of the tree titles and an anime playoff by A-1 Pictures began notification in July 2013.^[23] Also grind July 2013 she began concoct manga adaptation of Yoshiki Tanaka's The Heroic Legend of Arslan series of novels in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine.^[24]

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

Influences

Arakawa states that Suihō Tagawa, representation author of Norakuro, is distinction "root of [her] style pass for an artist".

She also perspicacious composition and drawing during absorption time as assistant of Hiroyuki Etō [ja]. She also cites Rumiko Takahashi, Shigeru Mizuki, and Kinnikuman by Yudetamago as influences extremity 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 maladroit thumbs down d Kōmori (蒼天の蝙蝠, lit. 'A Bat Shrub border 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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