Quote Originally Posted by naruto-niichan View Post
Usually? I think it's quite rare for a mangaka to help the anime team, at least from what I have witnessed so far (only thing I remember right now is Kubo helping with the Zanpaktou Arc). Do you know any other examples were it's confirmed that the mangaka (or especially Kishimoto) helped the anime staff in any way? Looking back at all the Naruto fillers, I can't imagine that he did
Arakawa helped a lot in both FMAs series. I remember some interviews that she stated about going crazy when the directors of the first series asked her about the plot and stuff, since the manga was far from over.
As of FA: B, she pratically gave all the sketchs of scenes of the last episode bc it came off right after the last chapter.

Ps.: Sorry about the off topicness of my post :B