MELBOURNE, Thursday 2 April, 2009 – Madman is proud to announce the acquisition of the highly-anticipated new anime series, FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: BROTHERHOOD, based on the best-selling manga by Hiromu Arakawa.

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: BROTHERHOOD is a brand-new production from Japan which closely follows the original FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST manga series storyline. The series chronicles brothers Edward and Alhponse Elric and their epic quest for the Philosopher’s Stone, the only thing that can help them undo a terrible alchemic error, which tore their bodies apart.

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: BROTHERHOOD debuts in Japan on Sunday April 5th at 5pm JST. Madman will be holding a simultaneous premiere screening at Supanova Pop Culture Expo, Brisbane at 6pm AEST.

Following soon after the premiere event, the first episode of FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: BROTHERHOOD will also debut Madman’s online offering of streaming episodes, officially launching Screening Room Plus – a brand-new section of the Madman website, developed exclusively for high-quality, optimised streaming of episodic content.

More anime series are also in the schedule for Screening Room Plus. Launching the site along with FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: BROTHERHOOD are episodes of SCHOOL RUMBLE, DEVIL MAY CRY, BLACK BLOOD BROTHERS, DARKER THAN BLACK, BACCANO!, SHIGURI and D. GRAY-MAN.