Talk:Hiromu Arakawa

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Pictures
Has anybody been able to see a photo of Hiromu Arakawa online anytime? If you do, give me the name of the source. Besides that, can somebody please upload a picture of her, you know the way she depicts herself as a cow? Thanks. --CagedInsomniak 22:48, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Ohhh, I get it, she draws herself as a cow-like figure because she worked at a dairy farm! Ahhh.

This photo from the 49th Shogakukan Manga Awards (definitely what the banner in the background says) is reportedly Arakawa (at center) with the other four award winners from 2004 (Takatoshi Yamada, Hiromu Shinozuka, Aya Nakahara, and Takashi Hashiguchi). http://web.archive.org/web/20041027034313/http://yoh.huming.com/poo/poo/picdata/Upload_20048413231.JPG --Asterphage 08:55, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Is she the girl in the black suit? Is anyone going to magnify the image and put it in the website? Although doesn't Miss Hiromu Arakawa want to have her privacy, thats why hasn't had her picture taken very much? Maybe its best to leave the cow image on the page after all.


 * The Shogakukan Manga Awards pic is available at mobuta.com/arakawa, but you may be right about not using a real photo. Arakawa-sensei is known to be camera shy, so it might be better just to leave it as is.

Info
"She has no role to play in the making of the anime, other than being mentioned as the original creator of the franchise." -did she not talk about giving ideas to the anime team at the back of vol.8? This should be changed. Also, someone should mention about her work with disable individuals before she became a mangaka, which had inspired Fullmetal Alchemist. --itakoaya

How do you know this (the part about disabled indiv. work)?--Chickentoo 01:11, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Quote
Should the B-movie quote in the lead really be formatted that way? Rather non-standard, and it clashes displeasingly with the picture's box in my Firefox. --maru (talk) contribs 03:24, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

I must know more!
I'm pretty much obsessed with Fullmetal Alchemist (it comes right after Metroid and Star Wars on my obsession list). As one could immagine, I'd like to know more information about its creator. There must be more information than this. Does anyone know more, and if not, where can some more information be found? --Gaming King 06:31, 9 April 2006 (UTC)


 * This is all we've got right now. If you ever do find more, feel free to add it in. --maru  (talk)  contribs 17:16, 9 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Darn. I was afraid of that. Well, I'll keep an eye out for more info. --Gaming King 03:26, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I also really want to know more, but more along the lines of her career and actions leading up to her success. I'm very interested. --Wulfclawe 05:04, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Well I looked at the Japanese-wiki page for her, and judging from a babelfish translation, there seems to be more information on it. It's here: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8D%92%E5%B7%9D%E5%BC%98 could someone who reads Japanese check it out?--Chickentoo 01:19, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

I had to do a multi-genre project on Arakawa-sensei, and I got most of my information from mobuta.com/arakwa. I'm pretty sure there's more there than in the English wiki article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.23.111.128 (talk) 17:51, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Controversies?
I'm not the most up to date person in the world, but there has been a lot of gossip about Hiromu Arakawa being a man who is transsexual. I'm not sure if that is totally correct (and I will check the source) but I just wanted to ask if that was appropriate to add into Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chronicles1289 (talk • contribs)


 * Goodness, a male transsexual? Don't post that without any citations, else the fans will be... upset, I think it is safe to say. --maru  (talk)  contribs 03:43, 20 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Transexual? Bull****. --Gaming King 13:48, 20 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree with his royal highness. - Nepharski 11:05 PM, 28 May 2006
 * but I've heard that this is what he japanese wikipedia article on her says--could someone who reads japanese check it?--Chickentoo 20:46, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * It does not say anything of the sort. It does mention that her real name is Hiromi (弘美), however. CES 22:44, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Then what I'm guessing is that Hiromu is a more masculine pen name, thus prompting confusion. Nepharski 4:27 AM March 17 2007
 * In the Japanese page it says something about an "Edmond Arakawa" being one of her pen names, which could have caused the whole "transsexual" thing...  moo cows rule talk to moo 04:45, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

we should make this list..
1 = we have to contact japanese user that edit anime articles here in the english idiom wikipedia

2 = we have to ask them to translate us the japanese article with the most important data. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Envidia (talk • contribs) 03:35, 15 February 2007 (UTC).

sloth and wrath from the anime
hiromu arakawa .. iwonder.. what does she think about wrath and sloth from the anime if someone has the answer please reply to me User:Envidia


 * To the best of my knowledge, she's never been more specific than she is in This interview: Her impression of the result? She found the homunculi's stories especially compelling: "As I watched the show, I found it very interesting to speculate about what kind of final showdown each of the homunculi would have with the people who spawned them." Jetamors 06:08, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Quotes
Why the hell is a quote about what kind of food she likes relevant to an encyclopedic article? Get it together, people. Tresdessert (talk) 03:34, 1 September 2008 (UTC)


 * http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hiromu_Arakawa I created a wikiquote page, but it nominated for deletion. Kasaalan (talk) 20:18, 3 January 2010 (UTC)


 * http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Votes_for_deletion/Hiromu_Arakawa Kasaalan (talk) 12:40, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Cow
Shouldn't we replace the cow picture? Judging by the discussion above this has been here for a long while. Is it really acceptable to have it on here? NarSakSasLee (talk) 12:27, 23 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Agree with that.Tintor2 (talk) 15:01, 23 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Her self-portrait is as perfectly appropriate & acceptable as Vincent van Gogh.
 * If you are suggesting, "wouldn't it be nice to have an actual photo in addition to her self-portrait?", then I agree - it would be nice, and if you have one, please add it. --Gwern (contribs) 18:31 23 December 2009 (GMT)


 * I don't have one. In fact I've had some problems with uploading. I don't fully understand the feature of uploading. It seems like she was taking a light hearted tone when she drew the self portrait. It just looks silly to have it up there. And I think wikipedia doesn't need this kind of editing...people already think its silly that anyone can edit articles on here. NarSakSasLee (talk) 17:07, 25 December 2009 (UTC)


 * It's very hard to find a free photo of a Japanese author. Maybe the self-portrait could be replaced with a color one that shows the face like the ones from the guidebooks.Tintor2 (talk) 20:01, 25 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I would agree with that. Van Gogh's self portrait is good to use since there werent high quality cameras back then. The cow picture is a bit of an insult to wikipedia and the editors in general... NarSakSasLee (talk) 21:10, 25 December 2009 (UTC)


 * How on earth is the cow picture an insult to anyone? What does that even mean? --Gwern (contribs) 00:07 26 December 2009 (GMT)


 * Cow from back is not so bad. She even dresses in cow costume. What is wrong with her own drawing. Kasaalan (talk) 23:32, 25 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm just saying that a color image showing her face would be better.Tintor2 (talk) 23:50, 25 December 2009 (UTC)


 * And I agree; but unless and until we have such an image, this discussion is nugatory. --Gwern (contribs) 00:07 26 December 2009 (GMT)
 * Good, because I was wanting to upload it.Tintor2 (talk) 14:25, 26 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Does that mean you have one, Tintor?NarSakSasLee (talk) 23:14, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I meant the color portait I uploaded yesterday.Tintor2 (talk) 01:20, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Picture
So, I found this picture (here), not sure if it's actually her, but if someone can confirm it, I think it would be good to have somewhere on the article, although the main image should still be the cow portrait. Schiffy (talk) 03:57, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
 * That's a photograph of Romi Paku, who voiced Edward Elric in both FMA series. It's been disseminated online as a photo of Arakawa by non-Japanese-fluent fans who saw it in an article about FMA (which included a profile of Arakawa) and made unwarranted assumptions. In the actual article, Arakawa illustrated her cow avatar on top of the photos she appeared in: http://doanimation.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/old-copypasta-of-hiromu-arakawa/ --Asterphage (talk) 23:23, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
 * And that's why I came to the talk page first. Though, on a related note, Park's page is lacking any form of image. Does that fit Wiki's standards for one? Schiffy  ( Speak to me &#124; What I've done ) 19:20, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Noble Farmer
No evidence of independent notability, but should be included on article of Author Dandy Sephy (talk) 20:39, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Twinkle's tagging isn't working that well, but essentially the Noble Farmer article either needs expansion to indicate it's notable in it's own right or merging/redirecting here. Dandy Sephy (talk) 20:41, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Its a stub, but its a notable stub nonetheless. It has been published in Taiwan and mainland China, but this one is more borderline despite the author's popularity. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 23:17, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

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