New Fullmetal Alchemist TV Anime Series Confirmed
Announcement to be made on
Hiromu Arakawa's latest manga volume
The wraparound jacket band on the 20th volume of
Hiromu Arakawa's
Fullmetal Alchemist manga will confirm on Friday that a new
television anime series is in the works. A new anime series was a topic of much fan discussion for several months, but it was thrust into a more public spotlight last month when a management document was purportedly
leaked from the
BONES anime studio. The document listed
Fullmetal Alchemist animator
Yasuhiro Irie as "Hagane 2 kantoku" (Iron/Fullmetal 2 director).
After the purported leak, BONES President
Masahiko Minami posted an official statement that said that no file with this same formatted information existed within the company. When asked about the possibility of a sequel to Fullmetal Alchemist or
Darker than BLACK (another BONES anime), Minami told ANN, "It hasn't been decided yet. We are interested in doing them. As original science-fiction works, they were extremely fascinating. With these kinds of dramatic story lines, I feel that there's a lot we could do potentially."
Viz Media will publish the 17th volume of the manga version in North America this October, while
FUNimation Entertainment released both the first television series and its theatrical movie finale.
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