Full Metal Panic
Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei
Soviet Union and Neo Soviet Union, check.
China and China, check.
United States of America and United States of North America, check.
Japan and Japan, check.
Top two somewhat aligned against the bottom two, check.
Somebody in the top two probably involved in funding international terrorism, check.
High stakes and high stakes, check.
Sousuke and Chidori would be going to Jindai, which wouldn't be made into a magical highschool. So no additional travel restrictions on their part. (There seem to have been restrictions on magicians traveling internationally put in place sometime after the last world war in Mahouka. This war, per some translations, reduced a population of nine billion to three billion. The trauma you'd expect from that explains a lot of the setting details, and the population decrease makes the green energy stuff more plausible.)
The humanoid weapons in Mahouka are probably on the right power level for high end arm slaves. The factions line up. Highschool students and highschool students. Sousuke and Tatsuya would get on together.
The source of the Whispered lines up a little with what the cognate faction in Mahouka has researched.
Making Tatsuya a Whispered is probably entirely unneeded. If things are to stay close to sane, he should only be a magician.
Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei
Soviet Union and Neo Soviet Union, check.
China and China, check.
United States of America and United States of North America, check.
Japan and Japan, check.
Top two somewhat aligned against the bottom two, check.
Somebody in the top two probably involved in funding international terrorism, check.
High stakes and high stakes, check.
Sousuke and Chidori would be going to Jindai, which wouldn't be made into a magical highschool. So no additional travel restrictions on their part. (There seem to have been restrictions on magicians traveling internationally put in place sometime after the last world war in Mahouka. This war, per some translations, reduced a population of nine billion to three billion. The trauma you'd expect from that explains a lot of the setting details, and the population decrease makes the green energy stuff more plausible.)
The humanoid weapons in Mahouka are probably on the right power level for high end arm slaves. The factions line up. Highschool students and highschool students. Sousuke and Tatsuya would get on together.
The source of the Whispered lines up a little with what the cognate faction in Mahouka has researched.
Making Tatsuya a Whispered is probably entirely unneeded. If things are to stay close to sane, he should only be a magician.