Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood/Episodes

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is a 64 episode Japanese anime series developed and produced by Bones. It is the second independent anime adaptation developed by Bones from the Fullmetal Alchemist manga series by Hiromu Arakawa. While the studio Bones produced the new series, Yasuhiro Irie worked as director, and Hiroshi Ōnogi as writer. The series follows the story of two alchemist brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, who want to restore their bodies after a disastrous failed attempt to bring their mother back to life through alchemy went awry. Unlike the first anime, which had its own original story, the second series follows the story of the manga.

The series premiered in Japan on April 5, 2009, on MBS-TBS's Sunday 5:30 pm JST anime timeblock, replacing Mobile Suit Gundam 00. On March 20, 2009, it was announced that it would receive it's English language premiere on Animax Asia, with Japanese audio and English subtitles, starting on April 10, 2009, at 8:30 p.m, five days after its Japanese premiere. On April 3, 2009, Funimation announced they would stream English subtitled episodes 4 days after they air in Japan. Funimation later suspended the release of new episodes of the series for a few weeks due to an incident involving an episode of One Piece being uploaded before it had aired in Japan. However, the episodes were shortly back on the Funimation website as well as on the official Funimation channel on YouTube. The episodes become available for streaming from Funimation every Thursday at 10 a.m. CDT. All episodes are also available on Hulu. Madman Entertainment also streamed episodes "within days" of their airing in Japan.

English dubbed episodes of the series began airing February 13, 2010 at midnight on Adult Swim, as part of their Saturday anime block. On May 26, 2012, the Adult Swim anime block was replaced with the revived Toonami block and the series continued to air as part of Toonami.

Aniplex began releasing the series in DVD and Blu-ray on August 26, 2009. The first volume contains two episodes and an original video animation (OVA). Three more OVAs were included in the fifth, ninth, and thirteenth volumes alongisde four episodes. Other volumes feature four episodes and no OVAs. A total of sixteen volumes were released, with the last being released November 24, 2010. Funimation also began releasing the episodes in Blu-ray and DVD volumes each of thirteen episodes on May 25, 2010.