Hiromu Arakawa

Awards & Honours

Awards Won

Honours

Rankings

Covers

Records

Hiromu Arakawa's achievements are remarkable in the manga industry. Fullmetal Alchemist is one of the best-selling manga series of all time, with over 80 million copies sold worldwide, a record for a female manga artist at the time. She won both the Manga Taishō Award and the Shogakukan Manga Award for Silver Spoon, making her one of the few artists to receive both honors. Her work has been consistently ranked among the greatest manga ever, with Fullmetal Alchemist topping lists from Wizard, IGN, and TIME magazine. She broke gender barriers in the shōnen genre and inspired countless aspiring artists.

AwardsHiromu Arakawa has won several major manga awards. She received the Japan Cartoonists Association Award Excellence Prize in 2011 for Fullmetal Alchemist, the Seiun Award for Best Comic in 2011 for the same series, the Manga Taishō Award in 2012 for Silver Spoon, and the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2013 for Silver Spoon.

Honours & Distinctions

Guinness World Record for Most Copies Sold for a Manga Series by a Female Author

Guinness World Records·2010

Fullmetal Alchemist held this record, since surpassed.

Rankings & Lists

Top 25 Manga of All Time

IGN·2013

Top 10 Manga of All Time

TIME Magazine·2010

Top 25 Manga

Wizard·2008

Magazine Covers

Monthly Shōnen Gangan

2001-07

Fullmetal Alchemist debut cover

Weekly Shōnen Sunday

2011-04

Silver Spoon debut cover

Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine

2013-07

The Heroic Legend of Arslan debut cover

Anime Insider

2004-03

Fullmetal Alchemist feature

Newtype

2009-04

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood cover

Records & Feats

Most copies sold for a manga series by a female author (Guinness World Record)

Sales Record·2010

Fullmetal Alchemist held the Guinness World Record for most copies sold for a manga series by a female author, with over 80 million copies sold worldwide.