The facts
Roles
Manga artist
Country
Japan
Active since
1999
Publishers
Enix/Square Enix (Monthly Shōnen Gangan), Shogakukan, Kodansha
Awards
Shogakukan Manga Award (2004); Tezuka Prize New Artist (2011); Manga Taishō (2012)
About Hiromu Arakawa
Hiromu Arakawa is a Japanese manga artist best known for Fullmetal Alchemist. It ran in Monthly Shōnen Gangan from July 2001 to July 2010, spanning 108 chapters and 27 volumes, and was adapted into two anime TV series. It won the 49th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category in 2004.
She began her career as an assistant to Hiroyuki Etō, and her own Stray Dog appeared in Monthly Shōnen Gangan in 1999. Her later work includes Silver Spoon (2011–2019) in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday, which won the 2012 Manga Taishō, and a manga adaptation of The Heroic Legend of Arslan novels, running in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine since 2013.
Since 2021 she has published Daemons of the Shadow Realm.
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