The Fullmetal Alchemist manga will return next year with a collector's edition hardcover release, Viz Media announced today at Anime Expo.

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Titled Fullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, this remastered work, featuring new lettering, an updated translation and all the original color pages, will release in May 2018. This special hardcover edition will also include new character sketches and color art from FMA writer and illustrator Hiromu Arakawa.Viz Media also announced a couple new manga titles it will release next year. Fire Punch, a thriller set in a dystopian world covered in snow, will release in January 2018. A new shojo manga series, based on the Japanese video game Kenka Bancho Otome, will also release next year. Titled Kenka Bancho Otome: Girl Beats Boys, the series centers around a girl named Hinako who finds herself tricked into attending an all-boys school.Additionally, Viz will release Sisyphean, Dempow Torishina's award-winning novel about a world where genetic engineering has rendered humanity virtually unrecognizable, in January of next year. Also, an activity book and haiku volume based on the hit mobile game Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector will release in February 2018.Viz Media will provide more information about its upcoming 2018 titles at some point in the future. In the meantime, read up on what we currently know about the live-action film adaptation of Fullmetal Alchemist , and be sure to stay tuned to IGN throughout the weekend for all the big news coming out of Anime Expo.

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