((Hagane no renkinjutsushi: Mirosu no seinaru hoshi))

A Shochiku relieve a Bones production. (Worldwide sales: Bones, Tokyo, japan, japan.) Produced by Masahiko Minami, Hiro Marayuma, Ryo Oyama, Noboyuki Kurashige, Fumi Teranishi, Arimasa Okada, Shin Furukawa. Directed by Kazuya Murata. Script, Yuichi Shinbo, based on figures created by Hiromu Arakawa inside the manga "Hagane no renkinjutsushi."Voices: Rie Kugimiya, Romi Park, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Fumiko Orikasa, Kenji Utsumi, Maaya Sakamoto, Megumi Takamoto, Sakiko Tamagawa, Shinichiro Miki. (Japanese dialogue)The second feature spinoff within the Japanime tube franchise, "Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos" is primed to thrill aficionados but furthermore draw beginners to the fold. Offering further adventures for just two brothers and sisters inside an alternate world where alchemy can be a highly sophisticated scientific application, pic upholds the series' trademark usage of pacey action and well-defined figures fighting against oppression and searching methods to spiritual questions. "Milos" designed a hearty $7.5 million in your area on 90 prints within this summer time and may attract solid fanboy biz on its early 2012 limited U.S. release. An worldwide ancillary bonanza is guaranteed. Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos Since turning up in 2001, the manga created by artist Hiromu Arakawa has offered 50 million copies in Japan and provided source material for animated TV series in 2003 and 2009, along with the feature presentation "Fullmetal Alchemist the film: Conqueror of Shamballa" (2005). The main protagonists of individuals popular tales are Alphonse Elric (voiced by Rie Kugimiya) and also the brother, Edward (Romi Park), youthful alchemists whose ongoing mission is going to be reunited utilizing their dead mother and reclaim regions of their physiques and souls they have lost for "smashing the taboo against human transmutation." Auds not inside the "Fullmetal" loop will question precisely what meaning at first, but everything soon becomes apparent once the siblings' latest mission can get on-going. Spiky-haired, quick-witted and trying out the career of "Condition Alchemist," Alphonse is distributed with Edward (who's available only just like a voice within the hulking suit of armor) utilizing their homeland Amestris to Table City, a buffer condition of high coves and deep valleys wedged between Amestris and rival energy Creta. Orders arrive from Cmdr. Col. Mustang (Shinichiro Miki, co-helmer of cult item "Funky Forest: The Initial Contact") to locate prison escapee Melvin Voyager (Toshiyuki Morikawa). A hazardously effective alchemist, Voyager is selecting the "Star of Fresh Blood stream," a sacred stone that opens "the doorway of truth." The lynchpin in Voyager's plan's Julia Crichton (Maaya Sakamoto), a 16-year-old orphan attracted in with the Milosians, a downtrodden people dwelling in caves below Table City whose future comes from the stone. People are merely the basic principles from the highly imaginative tale that can bring Edward and Alphonse into reference to shapeshifting wolf-chimera beasties as well as the Black Bats, a flying squad of human mma fighters bent on taking control of Table City. Although philosophical discussions around the valued object are every so often labored, scripter Yuichi Shinbo's elaborate plot remains coherent even during the time of furious fights and multiple identity switcheroos among combatants. Directed by experienced TV animator and "Fullmetal Alchemist" first-timer Kazuya Murata, and produced with the Bones animation studio which has shipped the entire "Fullmetal Alchemist" catalog, pic has subtly sharper lines and less fluid movement in comparison to TV episodes. Slight alternation in visual strategy suits the punchy tempos of Shinbo's narrative. All technical aspects are professional.Camera (color, HD), Yoshiyuki Takei editor, Kumiko Sakamoto music, Taro Iwashiro art company company directors, Kazuo Ogura, Tomoaki Okada appear (Dolby Digital), Masafumi Mima character designer, Kenichi Konishi chief animation director, Konishi mechanical designer, Shinji Aramaki visual effects, Team Taniguchi. Examined on DVD, Hawaii, March. 19, 2011. (In Hawaii Film Festival -- Anime Films.) Running time: 110 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com