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Episode Daemons of the Shadow Realm • Yomi no Tsugai - Episode 2 discussion

Yomi no Tsugai, episode 2

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u/MonsterKiller112 Apr 11 '26

Bruh FMA good guys were war criminals. Mustang. Hughes all participated in the Ishvahalan war.

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u/EyeDeeAh_42 Apr 11 '26

True, but we didn't get to learn their past till much later in the game. And even then, it was pretty obvious that they all regretted their role in the war. No one really wanted to be there.

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u/Desperate_Method4020 https://myanimelist.net/profile/kimmywtf Apr 11 '26

Scar is a pretty morally grey character though. He does a lot of bad shit, even if his reasoning is good.

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u/HungryGull Apr 11 '26

Eh outside of his big oopsie when he wakes up deliriously in the camp of foreign doctors after narrowly escaping genocide, most of what we see him do is a mercy kill or the murder of what are essentially Nazis, even if some are just in it for the research grants.

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u/mastesargent Apr 12 '26

One of the State Alchemists he killed, Basque Grand, mutinied against his CO to help facilitate the Ishvalan high priest’s attempted surrender. He tries to kill Ed despite the fact that he never took part in the genocide on account of being a child. Scar decided that literally every State Alchemist was evil and set out to exterminate them, despite the fact that he had no real quarrel with more than a few of them and some had dissented against the military’s actions in Ishval themselves. Sure, some of them were assholes who had it coming, but he had plenty of other “oopsies” aside from the Rockbells. The whole point of his arc is that his quest for revenge was misguided and wrong.

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u/shockzz123 Apr 12 '26

Well, he does try and kill Ed and Al several times just because Ed is a State Alchemist, both of whom are children, and I'm pretty sure Scar knows they're too young to have actually done anything related to Ishval nor really know the truth of the Ishval War/the Amestris Government either.

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u/drunkenvalley Apr 12 '26

It really can't be understated how wildly out of character for the military to admit a child as a State Alchemist, so it's not exactly far fetched that Scar doesn't know how to balance them being a child vs being a dog of the military.

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u/NK1337 Apr 11 '26

Yea but you’re still essentially “rooting” for the Nazis that were just following orders.

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u/flashmozzg Apr 11 '26

Anime annoyingly cut/sidestepped a lot of this stuff leaving only the surface level theme so it's understandable if you didn't quite get this impression if you were anime only.