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Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)

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Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)

Overview

Two young brothers are raised as alchemists, but when they are severely injured trying to perform a forbidden act, they begin searching for the one thing that can save them; the fabled philosopher's stone.


Starring Cast


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Female Combat: Yes
Christianity: Negative

Viewer Rating
8.4

Overview

Two young brothers are raised as alchemists, but when they are severely injured trying to perform a forbidden act, they begin searching for the one thing that can save them; the fabled philosopher's stone.


Starring Cast

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

The film's dominant themes align with progressive values, primarily through its strong critique of unchecked state power, militarism, and systemic corruption, emphasizing human rights and the ethical limits of authority.

The movie features traditional casting for its English dub, aligning voice actors with the light-skinned, European-coded appearance of its characters. However, its narrative explicitly critiques the dominant military power structure, largely composed of light-skinned male characters, by portraying their oppressive actions against a darker-skinned minority group.

Secondary

The series features Izumi Curtis, a highly skilled martial artist, who repeatedly demonstrates her physical prowess by defeating or dominating male opponents in direct hand-to-hand combat, including powerful Homunculi.

The Lior Temple, with its Christian-like iconography and 'Father' figure, is depicted as a corrupt institution led by a charlatan who exploits faith for power using fake miracles. The narrative exposes and condemns this abuse of religious authority.

Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) does not feature any explicitly identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on other aspects, and queer identities are not depicted or explored within the series.

Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes within its narrative. The story primarily focuses on alchemy, war, and the search for the Philosopher's Stone, without engaging with transsexual identities or experiences, thus resulting in no depiction.

The 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime adapts the manga without altering the established genders of its core characters. While some Homunculi differ from the manga, characters like Sloth in the 2003 anime are considered original creations for that specific adaptation's divergent storyline, rather than gender-swapped versions of existing manga characters.

The 2003 anime adaptation of Fullmetal Alchemist faithfully portrays its characters' visual appearances, including race, as established in the original manga. There are no instances where a character canonically depicted as one race in the source material is portrayed as a different race in this adaptation.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

8.4

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
8.5
The Movie Database logo
8.2

Critic Ratings

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N/A
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N/A

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