Q 01/05

Who wrote and illustrated the Fullmetal Alchemist manga?

A) Hiromu Arakawa

B) Hajime Isayama

C) Tite Kubo

D) Masashi Kishimoto

Answer · why

A) Hiromu Arakawa

Hiromu Arakawa draws herself as a bespectacled cow, a nod to the dairy farm she was raised on, yet readers often took her for a man because of her pen...

Q 02/05

Which magazine serialized the Fullmetal Alchemist manga from 2001 to 2010?

A) Weekly Shōnen Champion

B) Monthly Shōnen Gangan

C) Weekly Shōnen Magazine

D) Monthly Shōnen Sunday

Answer · why

B) Monthly Shōnen Gangan

Monthly Shōnen Gangan all but sold out when it ran the final chapter, so the publisher apologised to readers who had missed it and printed the whole c...

Q 03/05

What is Fullmetal Alchemist's Philosopher's Stone made from?

A) Pure gold

B) Animal blood

C) Human souls

D) Liquid mercury

Answer · why

C) Human souls

Human souls are condensed into each Stone, a secret the brothers uncover partway through the manga's 27 volumes by cracking the code in a doctor's res...

Q 04/05

Which company publishes the Fullmetal Alchemist manga in Japan?

A) Kodansha

B) Kadokawa Shoten

C) Shogakukan

D) Square Enix

Answer · why

D) Square Enix

Square Enix took over the series mid-run: the manga launched under Enix in 2001, and two years later Enix merged with its rival Square.

Q 05/05

In which fictional country is Fullmetal Alchemist mainly set?

A) Amestris

B) Xingese Empire

C) Drachma

D) Creta

Answer · why

A) Amestris

Amestris was built for a purpose: its hidden founder steered centuries of border wars so the country would grow into one giant transmutation circle.