Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is the second anime series based on the Fullmetal Alchemist manga. The series was first announced in the manga series' 20th tankōbon volume. Bones produces the new series with Yasuhiro Irie as director and Hiroshi Ōnogi as writer. The series premiered on April 5, 2009 on MBS-TBS' Sunday 5:00 pm JST anime timeblock, replacing Mobile Suit Gundam 00, and voice actors Romi Park and Rie Kugimiya reprised their roles as main characters Edward and Alphonse Elric respectively.

On March 20, 2009, it was announced that the English title of the series was Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and that it would receive its English language premiere on Animax Asia, with Japanese audio and English subtitles, from April 10, 2009 at 8:30 p.m, five days after its Japanese premiere. On April 3, 2009, Funimation announced they would stream English subtitled episodes four days after they air in Japan. Madman Entertainment will also stream it "within days" of the episodes airing in Japan. On February 14th 2010, the English dubbed version of Brotherhood began its air on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.

This 2009 anime series is a individual anime series, not to be confused with the 2003 anime series or as a sequel to it and unrelated to the 13th volume of the 2003 anime series also titled 'Brotherhood'.

Staff

 * Director: Yasuhiro Irie
 * Series Composition: Hiroshi Ohnogi
 * Music: Akira Senju
 * Original creator: Hiromu Arakawa
 * Character Design: Hiroki Kanno
 * Art director: Takeshi Satou
 * Art design: Kazushige Kanehira
 * Sound director: Masafumi Mima
 * Color design: Soko Nakao
 * Design: Shinji Aramaki

Cast
Japanese Cast:


 * Misato Fukuen as Elicia Hughes
 * Tomoe Hanba as Gracia Hughes

Theme Songs

 * Opening Theme:


 * 1: "Again" by YUI(episodes: 1-14)


 * 2: "Hologram" by NICO Touches the Wall(episodes: 15-26)


 * 3: "Golden Time Lover" by Sukima Switch(episodes: 27-38)


 * 1) 4 "Period" by CHEMISTRY(39-50)


 * 1) 5. " Rain" by SID(51-ongoing)


 * Ending Theme:


 * 1: "嘘 - Uso (Lie)" by SID(1-14)


 * 2: "Let it Out" by Miho Fukuhara(15-26)


 * 3: "Tsunai Da Te" by Lil'B(27-38)


 * 1) 4 "Shunkan SENTIMENTAL" by SCANDAL(39-50)


 * 1) 5. "RAY OF LIGHT " by Shoko Nakagawa(51-ongoing)


 * Insert Songs:

1. "Let it Out" by Miho Fukuhara (episode 26)

2. "Rain" by SID (episode 52)