Hiromu Arakawa

Hiromu Arakawa is a Japanese manga author, born on 8 May 1973 in Makubetsu, Hokkaido, where she grew up on a dairy farm. She achieved worldwide success with “Fullmetal Alchemist”, serialised from 2001 to 2010 in Monthly Shōnen Gangan — the story of the brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric and their search for the philosopher's stone. The series runs to twenty-seven volumes and won a Shogakukan Manga Award in 2004. She also drew on her farming childhood for the autobiographical “Silver Spoon” (2011) and “Hyakushō Kizoku”, and illustrated the manga adaptation of “The Heroic Legend of Arslan”. Since 2021 she has published “Daemons of the Shadow Realm”.