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Isn’t the govenrment literally fantasy nazis or something?
Please don’t well actually me I don’t know anime the only one I’ve seen is funky jazz spaceship show
The government is indeed pretty fascist. It’s a state military dictatorship headed by Führer Bradley. It appears to be a meritocracy based in individual prowess at alchemy, which fits in nicely with the power fantasy of fascist societies. I think there could have been a very pointed critique here given that the brothers are furiously opposed to the state despite participating in it. But the political intrigue angle on the corruption and the kind of hard magic stuff muddled that
About that connection
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They go through a portal and end up in the natzi thule society for an adventure. The alchemy power is using the souls of holocaust victims from our world as a fuel source