Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
tv·TV-14·
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood earns its low 2/10 woke score by focusing purely on the Elric brothers' quest, equivalent exchange, and the horrors of war through classic storytelling, with zero identity politics or activist framing.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood centers on the Elric brothers' quest to restore their bodies after a failed human transmutation, exploring themes of equivalent exchange, military corruption, and the Ishvalan War of Extermination as backstory that exposes the homunculi's schemes.
The narrative draws organically from Hiromu Arakawa's 2000s manga, set in a fictional Industrial Revolution-inspired European world, to depict the costs of alchemy and horrors of genocide through traditional shonen arcs like Scar's revenge and battles against Father. These elements rely on narrative logic and canon-faithful portrayals of male protagonists and supporting characters, with no alterations for race, gender, or sexuality, and without modern activist framing or lectures on systemic oppression. The show's content profile earns its official overall woke score of 2/10 due to this avoidance of identity politics in favor of story-driven exploration of war and moral costs.
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We've run a full content analysis on Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and scored it 2/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
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