Fullmetal AlchemistauthorHiromu Arakawa’s autobiographical manga, titled,Hyakushō Kizoku(The Peasant Noble)will be getting an anime adaptation. The manga series follows Arakawa’s life before manga, a period in which the mangaka spent seven years as a farmer in Hokkaido. Her experiences in this period helped Arakawa createGin no Saji (Silver Spoon), a manga series which followed the daily lives of high schoolers attending an agricultural school.
TheHyakushō Kizokuanime was announced by Japanese publisher Shinsokan (Tokyo Babylon) on Wednesday, at an exhibition for the manga series held at the Tokyo University of Agriculture (Nodai) on October 14, with the series' official Twitter account making a similar announcement earlier this week.
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The news of the new anime comes after the Hiromu ArakawaHyakushō Kizokux TOKYO NODAI 2022 exhibition event, which was held on October 14 as a follow-up to theexhibition event that was held at the university in 2021, not long before the release of the series' seventh tankōbon on July 01, 2025. The exhibition will run until March 2023, featuring several reproduced drawings from theHyakushō Kizokumanga, as well as various items from Arakawa’s “treasured collection”.
Hyakushō Kizokuhas been serialized from 2006; however, with a change in magazines from Shinsokan’s Unpoko magazine to Shinsokan’s Wings as from July 2009 after the cessation of Unpoko that year. JManga was previously responsible for the series' English publication online before its cessation in May 2013. Currently, Arakawa maintains an irregular publication of theHyakushō Kizokumanga in Wings magazine.
Arakawa’s other manga series about farming,Silver Spoon,was released in Shōgakukan’s Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine from April 2011 to November 2019. The series is set in Hokkaido, depicting the life of a city-dwelling high schooler coming to learn of the hard work that is farming life.Silver Spoonhas been well received, going on to win several awards in its time, such as the 2012 Manga Taishō and Booklog awards, as well as the Shōgakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category in 2013.
Hiromu Arakawa’s magnum opus,Fullmetal Alchemist, was first published by Weekly Shōnen Gangan from 2001 to 2010, spanning 27 volumes in that time. The series was released in English by VIZ, and has been adapted into animated series twice in 2003 and 2009, with two animated films and two sequel live-action films released in May and June respectively, in commemoration of the series' 20th anniversary.
