Hiromu Arakawa

Hiromu Arakawa (荒川弘) is a Japanese manga artist born May 8, 1973, on a dairy farm in Makubetsu, Hokkaido. She is best known for Fullmetal Alchemist (2001–2010), one of the best-selling manga series of all time, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award and was adapted into two acclaimed anime series. Her other major works include the agricultural-school comedy Silver Spoon and the fantasy epic The Heroic Legend of Arslan, adapted from Yoshiki Tanaka's novels. Drawing on her farming upbringing, she also created the autobiographical Rural Diaries (Hyakushō Kizoku).