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Video games[edit]
Video games based on Fullmetal Alchemist have been released. The storylines of the games often diverge from those of the anime and manga, and feature original characters.
Square Enix has released three role-playing games (RPG)—Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel, Curse of the Crimson Elixir, and Kami o Tsugu Shōjo. Bandai has
released two RPG titles, Fullmetal Alchemist: Stray Rondo (鋼の錬金術師 迷走の輪舞曲, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi Meisō no Rondo) and Fullmetal Alchemist: Sonata of
Memory (鋼の錬金術師 想い出の奏鳴曲, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi Omoide no Sonata), for the Game Boy Advance and one, Dual Sympathy, for the Nintendo DS. In Japan,
Bandai released an RPG Fullmetal Alchemist: To the Promised Day (鋼の錬金術師 Fullmetal Alchemist 約束の日へ, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi Fullmetal Alchemist Yakusoku no
Hi e) for the PlayStation Portable on May 20, 2010.[58]  Bandai also released a fighting game, Dream Carnival, for the PlayStation 2. Destineer released a game based on
the trading card game in North America for the Nintendo DS.[59][60]  Of the seven games made in Japan, Broken Angel, Curse of the Crimson Elixir, and Dual Sympathy have seen
international releases. For the Wii, Akatsuki no Ōji (暁の王子, lit. Fullmetal Alchemist: Prince of the Dawn) was released in Japan on August 13, 2009. [61] A direct sequel of the
game, Tasogare no Shōjo (黄昏の少女, lit. Fullmetal Alchemist: Daughter of the Dusk), was released on December 10, 2009, for the same console. [62]

Funimation licensed the franchise to create a new series of Fullmetal Alchemist-related video games to be published by Destineer Publishing Corporation in the United States.
[63]
 Destineer released its first Fullmetal Alchemist game for the Nintendo DS, a translation of Bandai's Dual Sympathy, on December 15, 2006, and said that they plan to release
further titles.[64]  On February 19, 2007, Destineer announced the second game in its Fullmetal Alchemist series, the Fullmetal Alchemist Trading Card Game, which was released
on October 15, 2007. [65] A second game for the PlayStation Portable titled Fullmetal Alchemist: Senka wo Takuseshi Mono (背中を託せし者) was released in Japan on October
15, 2009.[66]  A European release of the game, published by Namco Bandai Games, was announced on March 4, 2010. [67]  The massively multiplayer online role-playing
game MapleStory also received special in-game items based on the anime series.[68]  For the 20th Anniversary of the series, Square Enix announced Fullmetal Alchemist Mobile,
set to be released in Japan in 2022. [69]

Arakawa oversaw the story and designed the characters for the RPG games, while Bones—the studio responsible for the anime series—produced several animation
sequences. The developers looked at other titles—specifically Square Enix's action role-playing game Kingdom Hearts and other games based on manga series, such
as Dragon Ball, Naruto or One Piece games—for inspiration. The biggest challenge was to make a "full-fledged" game rather than a simple character-based one. [70]  Tomoya
Asano, the assistant producer for the games, said that development took more than a year, unlike most character-based games. [71]

Art and guidebooks[edit]

Cardback to the Fullmetal Alchemist TCG.

The Fullmetal Alchemist has received several artbooks. Three artbooks called The Art of Fullmetal Alchemist (イラスト集 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST, Irasuto Shū Fullmetal
Alchemist) were released by Square Enix; two of those were released in the US by Viz Media. [72][73]  The first artbook contains illustrations made between May 2001 to April 2003,
spanning the first six manga volumes, while the second has illustrations from September 2003 to October 2005, spanning the next six volumes. [27] The last one includes
illustrations from the remaining volumes. [74]

The manga also has three guidebooks; each of them contains timelines, guides to the Elric brothers' journey, and gaiden chapters that were never released in manga volumes.
[27]
 Only the first guidebook was released by Viz Media, titled Fullmetal Alchemist Profiles.[75] A guidebook titled "Fullmetal Alchemist Chronicle" (鋼の錬金術師 CHRONICLE),
which contains post-manga story information, was released in Japan on July 29, 2011. [76]

Merchandise[edit]
Action figures, busts, and statues from the Fullmetal Alchemist anime and manga have been produced by toy companies, including Medicom and Southern Island. Medicom has
created high end deluxe vinyl figures of the characters from the anime. These figures are exclusively distributed in the United States and UK by Southern Island. [77] Southern
Island released its own action figures of the main characters in 2007, and a 12" statuette was scheduled for release the same year. Southern Island has since gone bankrupt,
putting the statuette's release in doubt.[78]  A trading card game was first published in 2005 in the United States by Joyride Entertainment. [79]  Since then, six expansions have been
released. The card game was withdrawn on July 11, 2007. [80]  Destineer released a Nintendo DS adaptation of the game on October 15, 2007. [65]

Reception[edit]
Popularity[edit]
Along with Yakitate!! Japan, the series won the 49th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category in 2004.[81]  It won the public voting for Eagle Award's "Favourite Manga"
in 2010 and 2011.[82][83] The manga also received the Seiun Award for best science fiction comic in 2011. [84] Arakawa also received the New Artist Prize in the fifteenth Tezuka
Osamu Cultural Prizes for the manga series in 2011.[85][86] Fullmetal Alchemist ranked 3rd on the first annual Tsutaya Comic Awards' All-Time Best Section in 2017. [87]

In a survey from Oricon in 2009, Fullmetal Alchemist ranked ninth as the manga that fans wanted to be turned into a live-action film. [88]  The series is also popular with amateur
writers who produce dōjinshi (fan fiction) that borrows characters from the series. In the Japanese market Super Comic City, there have been over 1,100 dōjinshi based
on Fullmetal Alchemist, some of which focused on romantic interactions between Edward Elric and Roy Mustang. [89] Anime News Network said the series had the same impact
in Comiket 2004 as several female fans were seen there writing dōjinshi.[90] On TV Asahi's Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 poll, in which 150.000 people voted for their top 100 manga
series, Fullmetal Alchemist ranked No. 9.[91]