Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1387259-20130710190122/@comment-26420452-20130711123942

It's because Nazism is hated worldwide that Kubo may have decided to make the villains look Nazi-like. According to me, the Vandenreich are a mixture of two different-era warlike Germanic cultures, the Teutonic Knights and Nazis. The anime most likely won't restart again, due to the Nazi implications and the widespread presence of blood and guts; it'll be difficult to censor that much.