Fullmetal Alchemist: Redux

Taken from the ANN, with full due contributions going to them:

“The official website for the new Fullmetal Alchemist television anime series has launched with a short teaser video, and it has confirmed that the television series will launch in Japan in April. It also promised that new information will be provided in the January issue of Square EnixMonthly Shonen Ganganmagazine (where Hiromu Arakawa original manga is still serialized) on December 12. The same issue will also include a poster with a key visual image.

The new Full metal Alchemist teaser trailer ran at the end of the episode of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season that aired in Japan on Sunday. The trailer 500K, “New training … a fullmetal artificial limb, a body of armor … the brothers’ journey begins. Fullmetal Alchemist: April 2009 Training. In this palm, is there hope or despair?”

The new television anime series was confirmed on the wraparound jacket band of the 20th volume of Hiromu Arakawa Fullmetal Alchemist manga in August. However, a document with leaked information about animators who worked at BONES had already mentioned the possibility of “Hagane 2″ (”Iron/Fullmetal 2″) in July. Viz Media published 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.”

Basically, this is not a new series. This is a new take on the old series, more closely following the manga then the original series. I loved fullmetal as it was myself, but I’m intrigued to hear they’re redoing his manga more truthfully. This is not NEW NEWS as it goes, and I’m sorry for that, but there really is no updated content on ANN besides this worth mentioning at the moment. I scanned, and this seemed the most promising. Mostly, the content that was new there is just about comic-cons and manga.

Happy reading!

Shimus Darkraven,

Resident Nerd and News Writer