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Fullmetal Alchemist Manga: Over 30 Million Served

posted on 2008-03-22 00:42 EDT by Egan Loo

The promotional sleeve wrapper on the 19th volume of Hiromu Arakawa's Fullmetal Alchemist manga announced that the series has sold over 30 million copies in Japan. Arakawa began drawing the "dark fantasy" manga in Square Enix's Monthly Shonen Gangan magazine in 2001, and Viz Media has been publishing the manga in North America.

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Fullmetal Alchemist Manga: Over 30 Million Served