Fullmetal Alchemist holds the critical-consensus crown on this shelf and a permanently sealed canon, and it carries the vertical's most famous canon trap: two anime adaptations that share a beginning and then diverge into different stories with different endings. This shelf handles it the only honest way, by declaration. Unmarked quizzes test the manga and Brotherhood continuity; the 2003 anime appears only in quizzes whose titles name it, and any question that is true in one continuity and false in the other declares its canon in the stem. Inside that rule, the depth is real: the laws of alchemy and equivalent exchange, State Alchemist records, the homunculus taxonomy, and Brotherhood arc deep dives. Nothing here decays, and nothing here ambushes.
The front door of the FMA shelf: two brothers, the law of equivalent exchange, and the military that licenses alchemy. Ten questions on the premise, nothing that needs the later arcs.
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