The official website for the TV anime adaptation of Fullmetal Alchemist author Hiromu Arakawa’s autobiographical manga series, Hyakusho Kizoku (Noble Farmer), announced on April 18 that the anime’s next third season is set to premiere in the fall of 2025.
The anime’s first season aired for 12 episodes from July to September 2023, and the second season followed with another 12 episodes from October to December 2024. Production of the third season was announced in the final episode of the second season aired in Japan on December 20, 2024.
The author’s own experiences inspire the dairy farming-themed comedy manga. Arakawa was born in Tokachi-city, Hokkaido, to a farming family that ran a dairy and field farm and spent seven years there between graduating from an agricultural high school and becoming a manga artist.
The original manga was first serialized in Shinshokan’s Un Poco magazine from December 2006 to March 2009. After the magazine ceased its publication in June 2009, it was transferred to the same publisher’s magazine, WINGS. The series has printed 4.1 million copies with eight tankobon volumes in total so far by December 2023.
Source: TV anime “Hyakusho Kizoku” official website / X (formerly) Twitter
©Hiromu ARAKAWA, SHINSHOKAN/”Hyskusho Kizoku” Production Committee
