FullMetal Alchemist

Happy 20th Anniversary to the original anime! Let's celebrate with a nostalgia trip through classic material.

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It's finally come time to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the original FullMetal Alchemist anime!

This tumblr will be a daily visual nostalgia romp through the OG series, with a whole host of classic, familiar, and maybe not so familiar scans, infobits, and other little things that I hope you find neat.

The Archive provides a full overview of the growing gallery!

Your hostess for this re-adventure will be @weatheringtea and all materials have been scanned or captured by me (unless otherwise stated). Enjoy! ^^

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Hey folks, there's a pause on the scans. I caught up to myself ^^; cleaning up the scan and stitching them so they look seamless (and colour balanced between pages) takes a bit of time when the art gets busy (I'm specifically looking at all the Lab 5 illustrations >> ). So, give me a bit to get through them and that'll be a wrap for Artbook 1!

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Gluttony, Lust, and Envy illustration for Newtype's coverage on the Laboratory 5 arc

First Print: Newtype Magazine March 2004 Illustrated by: Norimitsu Suzuki Finished by: Koichi Iwanaga

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Hughes, Mustang, Ed, and Al illustration done for voice actor interviews in Newtype

First Print: Newtype Magazine March 2004 Illustrated by: Yuko Hirosawa Finished by: Hiromi Miyawaki

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Ed & Al illustration done for the cover of Newtype

First Print: Newtype Magazine March 2004 Illustrated by: Yoshiyuki Ito Finished by: Koichi Iwanaga

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For the second time in 3 months, for Fullmetal Alchemist's popularity brings it back as the cover feature on Newtype Magazine for March 2004 with 10 full pages of info. Let's look inside!

Looking ahead at the upcoming story elements, we get our first look at the Laboratory 5 story line with four pages.

We have a two page spread covering the ladies of the show, then another two page spread featuring interviews with Romi Park, Rie Kugimiya, Tōru Ōkawa, and Keiji Fujiwara. The last two pages are dedicated to the secondary characters we've been introduced to over the last few weeks, plus a bit of information on the new OP/ED everyone's been enjoying!

Monthly rankings!

FMA lands at #2 most popular show going into March after sitting in #1 entering February (Flame vs Fullmetal did great things for the popularity!).

Ed occupies #2 most popular male character (down from #1 in Feb), Roy holds steady at #5. Riza sits at #3 most popular female character (down from #2), and Winry is at #5 (down from #3). FMA DVD 1 ranks #3 best selling anime DVD behind Gundam Seed Vol 10 and Nausica Valley of the Wind's first DVD release (previously VHS only).

And still crushing it 3 months later, Melissa comes in as the 2nd best selling anime single, just behind the new Astroboy theme song.

Finally, the Furoku purchase bonus this month is an FMA sticker book, with 10 pages of stickers from the illustrations featured in Newtype the prior few months!

For the April preview, Gundam returns to the cover, but don't worry there's going to be a whole lot more FMA too!

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Fullmetal Alchemist Commercials

15 second DVD #3 commercial 30 second DVD #5 commercial 15 second Cool Joke/OP3 commercial for Undo

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Ed and Al illustration for Animedia

First Print: Animedia Magazine March 2004 Illustrated by: Yuko Yazaki Finished by: Hiromi Miyawaki

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Resembool Trio illustration

First Print: Animedia Magazine March 2004 Illustrated by: Hiroko Oguri Finished by: Reiko Iwasawa Background by: GREEN

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Resembool Trio illustration

First Print: Animedia Magazine March 2004 Illustrated by: Hiroki Kanno Finished by: Production IG

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Ed, Al, Mustang, Armstrong, and Hughes illustration of the Scar aftermath.

First Print: Animage Magazine February 2004 Illustrated by: Kanami Sekiguchi Finished by: Miho Kobayashi Background: Yuji Kihara (Kusanagi)

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Newtype illustration of Ed & Al

First Print: Newtype Magazine February 2004 Illustrated by: Hiroki Kano Finished by: Miho Kobayashi

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Ed, Al, Winry, and Pinako illustration for Animedia

First Print: Animedia Magazine February 2004 Illustrated by: Yuka Kudo Finished by: Reiko Iwasawa

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Illustration of Al and Ed for Animedia

First Print: Animedia Feburary 2004 Illustrated by: Yoshiyuki Ito Finished by: Koichi Iwanaga

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Illustration of Armstrong, Mustang, Ed, Al, and Winry for Animedia.

First Print: Animedia Magazine January 2004 Illustrated by: Kaori Komori Finished by: Reiko Iwasawa

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Flame vs Fullmetal

First Print: Animage Magazine January 2004 Illustrated by: Masahiro Ando Finished by: Koichi Iwanaga

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Sakura themed illustration of Ed, Al, and Mustang

First Print: Animage Magazine January 2004 Illustrated by: Kumiko Takahashi Finished by: Koichi Iwanaga Background: Kazuyuki Hashimoto (Kusanagi)