Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)/Trivia

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Hey, It's That Voice!: Numerous in both languages.
    • the dub had a surprise cross-region one late in the story: Scott McNeil as Hohenheim!
    • Earlier than that, Johnny Yong Bosch, typically a Los Angeles-based actor, makes a surprise cameo as a supporting character for one episode.
    • The series is purported to be one of, if not the only anime series to be dubbed by actors hailing for all four major dubbing cities: Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, and Vancouver.
      • It's easier to list Texas-based voice actors who haven't been in Fullmetal Alchemist at some point than those who have.
    • In the Japanese version, an amazing amount of the cast had been involved in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, which Fullmetal Alchemist had immediately followed in the popular (at the time) Saturday 6 p.m. timeslot after SEED had finished airing. The tradition would be continued with Mobile Suit Gundam 00 and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.
    • In Germany Roy is Johnny Depp (voiced by David Nathan who is the German voice actor for most of Depp's stuff.)