Himoru Arakawa

Hiromu Arakawa (荒川 弘, Arakawa Hiromu) is the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist, Hero Tales and Silver Spoon. Fullmetal Alchemist was rebooted into a series titled Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. She also designed the characters for the 2015 reboot of The Heroic Legend of Arslan. Himoru Arakawa is actually her male pen name. Her real name is Hiromi Arakawa (荒川 弘美, Arakawa Hiromi, born May 8, 1973).

Background
She was born on May 8, 1973, and grew up on a dairy farm. After she graduated high school, she took oil panting classes for seven years. She also created dōjinshi manga during this time with her friends, along with drawing yonkoma for a magazine.

When she moved to Tokyo in the summer of 1999, she became the assistant to Hiroyuki Etō. She debuted with Stray Dog in Enix’s Monthly Shōnen Gangan in 1999. It won an award, and she did a chapter of Shanghai Yōmakikai in the same magazine one year later.

In July 2001, she began her most famous series, Fullmetal Alchemist. It ran until July 2010 for 108 chapters, and it has had two anime adaptations, both by the anime studio Bones.

She is married with three children.

Since finishing Fullmetal Alchemist, she did Silver Spoon in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from April 2011 to November 2019. Ever since July 2013, she has been working on a second manga adaptation of Yoshiki Tanaka’s The Heroic Legend of Arslan novels in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine.

Works (W.I.P!)


Fullmetal Alchemist was adapted into an anime twice. Hero Tales, Silver Spoon and The Heroic Legend of Arslan also got anime adaptations as well.