History Creator / HiromuArakawa

* GenreAdultery: Most of her works are action/fantasy with brutal fight scenes. ''Silver Spoon,'' however, is a Slice of Life, with animals dying instead of humans. Despite this, ''Silver Spoon'' is now her second most popular work.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: ''Manga/SilverSpoon'' takes place in Hokkaido, and features the life and times of Agricultural high school students. Arakawa was herself born from a farming family and attended such a school. Naturally, the depiction of the life there is very accurate. ''Noble Farmer'' describes her life on her parents' farm; the protagonists of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' have their adventures all over the place, but they're ''from'' a small town in the country.

Hiromu Arakawa (荒川 弘 ''Arakawa Hiromu'', born May 8, 1973) is a Japanese manga artist from Hokkaidō mainly known for ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. Born and raised on a dairy farm, Arakawa spent several years helping out her family farm while taking painting lessons after graduating high school before moving to Tokyo to become a manga assistant. Before ''Fullmetal Alchemist'', she made the short series ''Manga/ShanghaiYoumaKikai'' and ''Manga/StrayDog'', and she currently works on ''Manga/SilverSpoon'', a SliceOfLife manga focused on agricultural life school life.

Hiromu Arakawa (荒川 弘 ''Arakawa Hiromu'', born May 8, 1973) is a Japanese manga artist from Hokkaidō mainly known for her MagnumOpus ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. Born and raised on a dairy farm, Arakawa spent several years helping out her family farm while taking painting lessons after graduating high school before moving to Tokyo to become a manga assistant. Before ''Fullmetal Alchemist'', she made the short series ''Manga/ShanghaiYoumaKikai'' and ''Manga/StrayDog'', and she currently works on ''Manga/SilverSpoon'', a SliceOfLife manga focused on agricultural life school life.

Hiromu Arakawa (荒川 弘 ''Arakawa Hiromu'', born May 8, 1973) is a Japanese manga artist from Hokkaidō mainly known for her MagnumOpus ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. Born and raised on a dairy farm, Arakawa spent several years helping out her family farm while taking painting lessons after graduating high school before moving to Tokyo to become a manga assistant. Before ''Fullmetal Alchemist'', she made the short series ''Manga/ShanghaiYoumaKikai'' and ''Manga/StrayDog'', and she currently works on ''SilverSpoon'', a SliceOfLife manga focused on agricultural life school life.

* {{Gorn}}: It says a lot when ''SilverSpoon'', a SliceOfLife manga, depicts nauseatingly realistic gore.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: ''SilverSpoon'' takes place in Hokkaido, and features the life and times of Agricultural high school students. Arakawa was herself born from a farming family and attended such a school. Naturally, the depiction of the life there is very accurate. ''Noble Farmer'' describes her life on her parents' farm; the protagonists of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' have their adventures all over the place, but they're ''from'' a small town in the country.

* TheRemake: Made her own rendition of ''TheHeroicLegendOfArslan'' that has recently gotten an anime adaptation.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Souten no Koumori'' (a one-shot about a female {{Ninja}}) is just as tragic and bittersweet as ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' and ''Stray Dog,'' but has the least humor and slapstick of all of her works. Her rendition of ''TheHeroicLegendOfArslan'' is noticeably more intense than the original manga.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Souten no Koumori'' (a one-shot about a female {{Ninja}}) is just as tragic and bittersweet as ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' and ''Stray Dog,'' but has the least humor and slapstick of all of her works.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Souten no Koumori'' is just as tragic and bittersweet as ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' and ''Stray Dog,'' but has the least humor and slapstick of all of her works.

* {{Gorn}}: It says a lot when SilverSpoon, a SliceOfLife manga, depicts nauseatingly realistic gore.

Hiromu Arakawa (荒川 弘 ''Arakawa Hiromu'', born May 8, 1973) is a Japanese manga artist from Hokkaidō mainly known for her MagnumOpus ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. Born and raised on a dairy farm, Arakawa spent several years helping out her family farm while taking painting lessons after graduating high school before moving to Tokyo to become a manga assistant. Before ''Fullmetal Alchemist'', she made the short series ''Manga/ShanghaiYoumaKikai'', and she currently works on ''SilverSpoon'', a SliceOfLife manga focused on agricultural life school life.

Hiromu Arakawa (荒川 弘 ''Arakawa Hiromu'', born May 8, 1973) is a Japanese manga artist from Hokkaidō mainly known for her MagnumOpus ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. Born and raised on a dairy farm, Arakawa spent several years helping out her family farm while taking painting lessons after graduating high school before moving to Tokyo to become a manga assistant. She currently works on ''SilverSpoon'', a SliceOfLife manga focused on agricultural life school life.

* AuthorAvatar: She occasionally appears as a bespectacled cow.

** For the {{wuxia}}-inspired ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_Tales Hero Tales]]'', Arakawa and her team traveled to where the series is set to see some Chinese architecture and way of living.

Hiromu Arakawa is a female mangaka who rose into fame with her MagnumOpus ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. She currently works on ''SilverSpoon'', a SliceOfLife manga focused on agricultural life school life.

Hiromu Arakawa is a female mangaka who rose into fame with her MagnumOpus ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. S{{he Also Did}} ''SilverSpoon'', a SliceOfLife manga focused on agricultural life.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: ''SilverSpoon'' takes place in Hokkaido, and features the life and times of Agricultural high school students. Arakawa was herself born from a farming family and attended such a school. Naturally, the depiction of the life there is very accurate. ''Noble Farmer'' also describes her life on her parents' farm.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: ''SilverSpoon'' takes place in Hokkaido, and features the life and times of Agricultural high school students. Arakawa was herself born from a farming family and attended such a school. Naturally, the depiction of the life there is very accurate.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: ''SilverSpoon'' takes place in Hokkaido, and features the life and times of Agricultural high school students. Arakawa was herself born from a farming family and attended such a school. Naturally, the depiction of the life there is very accurate.

* MoodWhiplash: ''Nobody'' else does it quite like she does... You'll frequently find several swinging moods in the same ''scene'', let alone the same chapter, yet she makes it all work. She often includes the use of SuperDeformed or otherwise[[ArtShift Art Shifted]] caricatures for emphasis: it's a trademark. And, beware all ye the BishieSparkle and WingdingEyes: the uses are many and various.

* MoodWhiplash: ''Nobody'' else does it quite like she does... You'll frequently find several swinging moods in the same ''scene'', let alone the same chapter, yet she makes it all work. She often includes the use SuperDeformed caricatures for emphasis: it's a trademark.

* MoodWhiplash: ''Nobody'' does it quite like her... often going for several swinging moods in the same ''scene'', yet making it work. She often includes the use SuperDeformed caricatures for emphasis: it's a trademark.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: ''SilverSpoon'' takes place in Hokkaido, where she was raised. Naturally, the depiction of the life there is very accurate.