I'm not sure since I haven't watched the show since season 3 ended and don't really remember much but I've tagged it as such.
It was never confirmed, yet people still use it to spout "the author is a literal fascist!" every chance they can, despite his work saying the literal opposite (and also everything he's said publically since in interviews and such.)
This however, I can agree with.
FMA: B absolutely criticizes the militaristic aspects of their society, multiple times, to a degree of saying to Mustang that him becoming Führer wont change much, and a new system needs to happen.
It does, and again I love the show and wouldn't if it completely disregarded that approach. I didn't intend to say it didn't address it at all, but rather that much of it gets attached to a certain aspect of the show that sort of robs responsibility. Even if it comes down to the point that those who did kickstart many of those issues are closer to the everyman than they and others would like to believe and that those everyman struggle with the actions they took under/following those others.
so it's like Legend of Galatic heroes?
it feels like the series scratches it a bit, when Edward posits that a more imperialistic turn happened since King Bradley became Führer, which bothered him, but you're correct. I wouldn't say it's hand-waived, but the onus of making the amestrian society understand that ends up falling on the shoulders of Ishbalians in the series.
i mean, it's not gratuitous(not saying you're implying it), so i don't feel that the show is saying "only this person is solely responsible", but i do get your point.
ikr? Hawkeye literally explains to Ed that the whole point of Mustang becoming Führer is to judge everyone who participated in the war.
Did you watch the video and listen? He's not saying that they're only depicted that wayHe claims the Titans have "large hook-like noses". Is he for real?
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Bruh, look at them hooked noses!
He claims the Titans have "large hook-like noses". Is he for real?
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Bruh, look at them hooked noses!
The explicitly evil, fascist government in FMA:B never punished Hawkeye, Riza, Hughes, etc for the horrifying attack they were ordered to carry out against Ishval but they spend the entire series telling the audience again, again, again and again that the attack was genocide and murder, and even though it was puppeteered by an evil entity, those characters all repeatedly say "this still does not wash my hands of being a participant".
Isayama talked about his inspirations for the titans some years ago:
And yeah, the series is fully anti-fascism, anti-racism, but Isayama for all his brilliancy was careless with the use of imagery
A little bit here, a little bit there, hence plausible deniability. If you don't want to believe there is even a chance of it, especially with every other weird choice done with this manga/anime, that is your choice.
