"Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood" has turned 15 years old. Debuting in 2009, it was the second (and more faithful) anime adaptation of the original manga by Hiromu Arakawa. It's one of the best anime of its decade and genre (battle shonen) too. For as much stock as you can put in fan community rankings, "Brotherhood" maintained the #1 spot on MyAnimeList for years and was only recently dethroned by 2023's breakout hit, "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End."
"Neon Genesis Evangelion" and "Cowboy Bebop" first converted me to anime, while I admit I watched the 2003 "Fullmetal Alchemist" first. Still, I'd say "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood" is what made me an anime fan, not just an occasional admirer. It's one of the most satisfying experiences I've ever had with a TV series (I watched the last 13 episodes in a single sitting) and the high I've been chasing with anime since.
"Fullmetal Alchemist" is different from many other shonen (young boys) anime/manga.
"Neon Genesis Evangelion" and "Cowboy Bebop" first converted me to anime, while I admit I watched the 2003 "Fullmetal Alchemist" first. Still, I'd say "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood" is what made me an anime fan, not just an occasional admirer. It's one of the most satisfying experiences I've ever had with a TV series (I watched the last 13 episodes in a single sitting) and the high I've been chasing with anime since.
"Fullmetal Alchemist" is different from many other shonen (young boys) anime/manga.
- 4/6/2024
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
A health survey that was conducted for the first time by an organization of anime producers shed some light on the mental state of the anime creators who are currently working in the industry.
The results of the survey, which was carried out by the Japanese Animation Creators Association, revealed that 17% of people involved in anime production have experienced or may have experienced depression and other such mental illnesses.
Out of the 429 people who were surveyed, 73 people reported having suffered or experienced possible mental illness like depression.
Additionally, when asked about their degree of fatigue, 291 (68%) individuals reported having felt mentally fatigued and 285 (66%) individuals felt physically fatigued.
According to the organization, despite the popularity of Japanese anime both domestically and internationally, animators experienced health issues due to extremely demanding work schedules and other factors.
And due to this, they had decided to add some health related questions to the survey which...
The results of the survey, which was carried out by the Japanese Animation Creators Association, revealed that 17% of people involved in anime production have experienced or may have experienced depression and other such mental illnesses.
Out of the 429 people who were surveyed, 73 people reported having suffered or experienced possible mental illness like depression.
Additionally, when asked about their degree of fatigue, 291 (68%) individuals reported having felt mentally fatigued and 285 (66%) individuals felt physically fatigued.
According to the organization, despite the popularity of Japanese anime both domestically and internationally, animators experienced health issues due to extremely demanding work schedules and other factors.
And due to this, they had decided to add some health related questions to the survey which...
- 12/7/2023
- by A.R. Madillo
- AnimeHunch
"Healer Girl" is the new anime TV series, directed by Yasuhiro Irie, featuring character designs by Yukie Akiya and music composed by Ryo Takahashi and the 'Healer Girls', now streaming on Crunchyroll:
"...'Karasuma Ria' is a skilled and renowned healer who runs her own clinic as 'The Witch of Kmu'. She has a medical license but left the practice of Western medicine to become a music healer. She also conducts research on music healing, hoping to advance the field.
"As a healer apprentice of Ria, 'Kana' decided to become a healer after she had an asthma attack on a plane and a healer helped her recover. Kana has innate talent but sometimes struggles with technical skills and knowledge.
"'Hibiki Morishima' is an apprentice healer, related to her teacher Ria, who comes to stay with Hibiki's large family in the country in the summer.
"Reimi is an apprentice of Karasuma,...
"...'Karasuma Ria' is a skilled and renowned healer who runs her own clinic as 'The Witch of Kmu'. She has a medical license but left the practice of Western medicine to become a music healer. She also conducts research on music healing, hoping to advance the field.
"As a healer apprentice of Ria, 'Kana' decided to become a healer after she had an asthma attack on a plane and a healer helped her recover. Kana has innate talent but sometimes struggles with technical skills and knowledge.
"'Hibiki Morishima' is an apprentice healer, related to her teacher Ria, who comes to stay with Hibiki's large family in the country in the summer.
"Reimi is an apprentice of Karasuma,...
- 1/3/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Jack Quaid has been slowly invading fandoms. His latest feat? Voicing Superman in HBO Max’s upcoming animated series My Adventures With Superman.
“Whichever fandom you belong to, there’s a good chance Jack Quaid is involved. After two seasons playing vigilante Hughie Campbell on Amazon’s smash-hit series The Boys, Quaid joined the Star Trek franchise, lending his nervous vocal stylings to the role of Brad Boimler in Paramount+’s animated Lower Decks.“
Read more at Inverse.
This June marks the 51st anniversary of the first ever pride march in the U.S. Learn some historical facts about Pride Month, and how it came about.
“Since 1970, the LGBTQ community has marked June as Pride Month—a time to celebrate what it means to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender while demanding equality and liberation from cis and heteronormative constraints. Pride parades, which are traditionally held on the last weekend in June,...
“Whichever fandom you belong to, there’s a good chance Jack Quaid is involved. After two seasons playing vigilante Hughie Campbell on Amazon’s smash-hit series The Boys, Quaid joined the Star Trek franchise, lending his nervous vocal stylings to the role of Brad Boimler in Paramount+’s animated Lower Decks.“
Read more at Inverse.
This June marks the 51st anniversary of the first ever pride march in the U.S. Learn some historical facts about Pride Month, and how it came about.
“Since 1970, the LGBTQ community has marked June as Pride Month—a time to celebrate what it means to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender while demanding equality and liberation from cis and heteronormative constraints. Pride parades, which are traditionally held on the last weekend in June,...
- 6/3/2021
- by Ivan Huang
- Den of Geek
The concept of the last or only human is a classic science fiction set-up, one we most often see in the post-apocalyptic genre, which often sees a human wandering a dystopian landscape, in search for meaning and connection in a grim reality. In Eden, Netflix’s new Japanese-language original anime, we get a clever twist on the old convention: Here, humans disappeared 1,000 years prior, and Earth is populated by a few settlements of robots. These robots spend their days growing apples, an act driven by their initial creation by and for humans. When a pair of apple-harvesting robots, A37 and E92, find a human baby, Sara, they go against the rules of Eden-3, where they live, to follow their nature: to protect and care for this tiny human, even when everything they have ever been told about humanity has been framed in our species’ capacity for destruction.
The anime, which...
The anime, which...
- 5/27/2021
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
New titles also include Yasuke, directed and executive produced by US anime artist LeSean Thomas.
Netflix unveiled a slate of 40 original anime titles set to premiere in 2021, more than double its output last year, at the ongoing AnimeJapan 2021 virtual event.
The slate is headed by Masao Okubo’s Record Of Ragnarok, an adaptation of the popular manga about the one-on-one battles between humans and gods to determine the fate of humanity. Set to premiere in June 2021, the series is produced by Japanese animation studio Graphinica.
Netflix is also launching two shows combining the work of international and Japanese talents – Yasuke,...
Netflix unveiled a slate of 40 original anime titles set to premiere in 2021, more than double its output last year, at the ongoing AnimeJapan 2021 virtual event.
The slate is headed by Masao Okubo’s Record Of Ragnarok, an adaptation of the popular manga about the one-on-one battles between humans and gods to determine the fate of humanity. Set to premiere in June 2021, the series is produced by Japanese animation studio Graphinica.
Netflix is also launching two shows combining the work of international and Japanese talents – Yasuke,...
- 3/27/2021
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
The upcoming 4-episode 'anime' TV series "Eden" is directed by Yasuhiro Irie ("Fullmetal Alchemist") and produced by Qubic Pictures. Cgcg, streaming May 2021 on Netflix:
"...thousands of years in the future, the city 'Eden 3' is inhabited solely by robots whose former masters vanished a long time ago.
"On a routine assignment, two 'farming robots' accidentally awaken a human baby girl from 'stasis', questioning all they were taught to believe -- that humans were nothing more than a forbidden ancient myth. Together, the two robots secretly raise the child in a safe haven outside Eden...."
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"...thousands of years in the future, the city 'Eden 3' is inhabited solely by robots whose former masters vanished a long time ago.
"On a routine assignment, two 'farming robots' accidentally awaken a human baby girl from 'stasis', questioning all they were taught to believe -- that humans were nothing more than a forbidden ancient myth. Together, the two robots secretly raise the child in a safe haven outside Eden...."
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- 10/28/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Earlier this week, Netflix re-released the promising trailer for Eden, a science fiction anime series coming to the streamer in May 2021. The four-episode, Japanese-language series is set thousands of years in the future in a robot city known as “Eden 3.” When two farming robots accidentally awaken a human baby girl from stasis during a routine assignment, they begin to question everything they thought they knew about the myth of humanity and decide to raise the child secretly on their own.
Great premise, right? Well, the production has some great creative talent to drive it too. Eden comes from director Yasuhiro Irie, who also did Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and boasts Toshihiro Kawamoto, best known as character designer and animation director for Cowboy Bebop, as a concept designer. Hopefully, Eden is good; regardless, it is a notable series in the history of Netflix, as Eden is being billed as “the first Netflix Japanese Original Anime.
Great premise, right? Well, the production has some great creative talent to drive it too. Eden comes from director Yasuhiro Irie, who also did Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and boasts Toshihiro Kawamoto, best known as character designer and animation director for Cowboy Bebop, as a concept designer. Hopefully, Eden is good; regardless, it is a notable series in the history of Netflix, as Eden is being billed as “the first Netflix Japanese Original Anime.
- 10/28/2020
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
Netflix unpacked a swath of news during its Netflix Anime Festival 2020 livestream Tuesday out of Japan, setting five new anime projects and providing updates on 11 other series in various stages of production at the streamer’s bustling Tokyo headquarters.
The new original projects — continuation Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure, manga-based Thermae Romae Novae, High-Rise Invasion and Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, and The Way of the Househusband — were unveiled along with updates on 11 others previously announced including anime series based on franchises including Resident Evil, Transformers and Pacific Rim, Yasuke featuring the voice of Lakieth Stanfield, and the continuation of the manga tale Baki Hanma.
“In just four short years since launching our creative team in Tokyo, Netflix has expanded the reach and overall audience of anime – a category conventionally seen as niche,” Taiki Sakurai, Netflix’s Chief Producer, Anime, during the event. “Given the success of shows such as Seven Deadly Sins and Baki,...
The new original projects — continuation Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure, manga-based Thermae Romae Novae, High-Rise Invasion and Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, and The Way of the Househusband — were unveiled along with updates on 11 others previously announced including anime series based on franchises including Resident Evil, Transformers and Pacific Rim, Yasuke featuring the voice of Lakieth Stanfield, and the continuation of the manga tale Baki Hanma.
“In just four short years since launching our creative team in Tokyo, Netflix has expanded the reach and overall audience of anime – a category conventionally seen as niche,” Taiki Sakurai, Netflix’s Chief Producer, Anime, during the event. “Given the success of shows such as Seven Deadly Sins and Baki,...
- 10/27/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Annecy, France — Thursday morning saw Netflix host an Annecy Works in Progress session for its upcoming first Japanese Netflix Original anime “Eden,” when members of the film’s production team shared concept art, story boards and animation techniques before screening a lengthy trailer.
Netflix has shared two images from the panel exclusively with Variety.
Set in a far off future and a world which has been inhabited by robots for centuries, their human creators having gone extinct long ago, most of the robots of the mechanical metropolis Eden 3 don’t even believe humans ever actually existed. Most consider them as creatures of myth.
On an otherwise normal day, two ordinary farming robots heading to the fields stumble across a cryogenic pod containing a young human girl. In a world that is definitively not ready for human reintegration, the two secretly raise Sara into young adulthood, opposed along the way by...
Netflix has shared two images from the panel exclusively with Variety.
Set in a far off future and a world which has been inhabited by robots for centuries, their human creators having gone extinct long ago, most of the robots of the mechanical metropolis Eden 3 don’t even believe humans ever actually existed. Most consider them as creatures of myth.
On an otherwise normal day, two ordinary farming robots heading to the fields stumble across a cryogenic pod containing a young human girl. In a world that is definitively not ready for human reintegration, the two secretly raise Sara into young adulthood, opposed along the way by...
- 6/14/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
For many years, I considered the first adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa’s manga, one of the best titles ever to appear in the anime world. However, the second adaptation, “Brotherhood” managed to do what I previously thought unachievable, to improve on the first significantly, particularly by staying as close as possible to the original, and thus extending the series to 64 episodes from the 51 of the first.
Two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric have been dealing with alchemy since childhood, instigated by the endeavors of their father, Hohenheim, in the field, a man who has actually abandoned their family. When their mother dies, the two of them decide to deal with a taboo procedure for alchemy, in order to bring her back to life. Their effort though, goes awfully wrong, ending up in Edward losing his left leg and Alphonse, his entire body. To save his brother, Edward...
Two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric have been dealing with alchemy since childhood, instigated by the endeavors of their father, Hohenheim, in the field, a man who has actually abandoned their family. When their mother dies, the two of them decide to deal with a taboo procedure for alchemy, in order to bring her back to life. Their effort though, goes awfully wrong, ending up in Edward losing his left leg and Alphonse, his entire body. To save his brother, Edward...
- 12/10/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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