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.

This 2009 anime series is not to be confused with the first anime series which aired from 2003 to 2004.

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

 * Rie Kugimiya as Alphonse Elric
 * Romi Paku as Edward Elric
 * Megumi Takamoto as Winry Rockbell
 * Shinichiro Miki as Roy Mustang
 * Biichi Satou as Heymans Breda
 * Fumiko Orikasa as Riza Hawkeye
 * Hidekatsu Shibata as King Bradley
 * Hiroyuki Yoshino as Solf J. Kimblee
 * Kaori Nazuka as Maria Ross
 * Keiji Fujiwara as Maes Hughes
 * Kenji Hamada as Vato Falman
 * Kenji Utsumi as Alex Louis Armstrong
 * Kenta Miyake as Scar
 * Kikuko Inoue as Lust
 * Kouichi Yamadera as Isaac McDougal
 * Minami Takayama as Envy
 * Misato Fukuen as Elicia Hughes
 * Tetsu Shiratori as Gluttony
 * Tetsuya Kakihara as Kain Fuery
 * Tomoe Hanba as Gracia Hughes
 * Yuji Ueda as Jean Havoc
 * Mamoru Miyano as Ling Yao
 * Nana Mizuki as Lan Fan
 * Katsunosuke Hori as Fu

Theme Songs

 * Opening Theme:
 * 1: "Again" by YUI(1-14)


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


 * 3: "Golden Time Lover" by Sukima Switch(27-38)
 * 1) 4 "Period" by CHEMISTRY(39-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-ongoing)
 * Insert Songs