The world of Fullmetal Alchemist is styled after the European Industrial Revolution. It was serialized in Square Enix’s Monthly Shōnen Gangan magazine between August 2001 and June 2010 the publisher later collected the individual chapters into twenty-seven tankōbon volumes.
Fullmetal Alchemist (Japanese: 鋼の錬金術師 Hepburn: Hagane no Renkinjutsushi, lit. ”Alchemist of Steel”) is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa.
