In the year of 2001, Hiromu Arakawa debuted her manga series titled Fullmetal Alchemist in the monthly Japanese magazine, Shounen Gangan. About a year later, the series caught interest in some of the people who work for BONES studio. They really liked it, and thought it could be made into a terrific anime series. So Arakawa gave them permission and the series was put into production, and later made it's debut in 2003. The anime for Fullmetal Alchemist turned out to be a huge success in Japan as well as the rest of the world. It was popular enough to have a feature-length movie shown in theaters (even in selected theaters in North America). Many people even dare call it one of the greatest anime series ever created, and rank its greatness with such series like Neon Genesis Evangelion.

However, despite its popularity, when compared to the manga, both versions are very different like night and day. They where so different from each other, it would be just like reading a whole different series once you start to get past the first 4 volumes. When the anime was made, there was a very limited amount of material from the manga for the series to be based on. As a result, the series had loosely based material from the first 7 volumes and the animators came up with alot of their own material just to help keep the series going, they even invented their own ending. While the anime ended in 2004, the manga series it was based on kept going, producing over 20 volumes.

Please Note: Due to various translations, the episode titles may vary, I'm only going off of the names Funimation used. (The company that released the series in North America and much of the world).

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