What does 奸閥 mean?


What does the word 奸閥 mean? It appears in the sentence 「万流奸閥解体！」, as seen in
the image below. (万流【ばん.りゅう】 is the name of a character in the television show
「ブブキ・ブランキ」, which is the source of the image.)

Judigng from the characters and from context (the text comes from a poster
calling for the fall of the Banryuu-led government), it seems like this would
be pronounced カンバツ, and would mean something like "[evil] faction". However, I
cannot find this word in any of the online dictionaries I checked, nor in
BCCWJ.

My best guess is that 奸閥 is not a single lexical item, but rather the use of 奸
"evil(?)" as a modifier on 閥 "group, faction". Is that the case? (If so, this
is novel to me - I don't think I know of any characters whose _on_ readings
are used freely and productively as affixes on nouns.)

[!["Bubuki Buranki" episode 1
17:37](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kKrG0.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kKrG0.jpg)




I haven't seen this anime, but ブブキ・ブランキ is basically a sci-fi? Then first I
would like to mention that this art style is not that of modern Japanese. This
reminds me of certain ["far-right" political
factions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyoku_dantai) which typically use odd,
old-fashioned and propagandistic wordings, simulating a propaganda poster from
around the 1920's. They tend to use difficult words made of difficult kanji
for whatever reasons. Basically I won't be surprised if they create new kanji
compounds which suit their needs, because they obviously hate katakana words
:-)

I haven't seen 奸閥 itself, and both 奸 and 閥 are not commonly used today.

  * 奸: I barely know that this kanji was used in some historical contexts and means a morally evil person. But I can safely say this kanji is almost dead today among ordinary people. かん is the only reading I know.
  * 閥: 財閥 and 学閥 are the only words I know, both of which have negative connotations. ばつ is the only reading I know.

So the word 奸閥 looks reasonable to me as a _historical_ word that means "evil
syndicate." I'm not sure if this is a real word or a made-up one (either by a
real political group or the anime staff).




I haven't seen this anime, but ブブキ・ブランキ is basically a sci-fi? Then first I
would like to mention that this art style is not that of modern Japanese. This
reminds me of certain ["far-right" political
factions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyoku_dantai) which typically use odd,
old-fashioned and propagandistic wordings, simulating a propaganda poster from
around the 1920's. They tend to use difficult words made of difficult kanji
for whatever reasons. Basically I won't be surprised if they create new kanji
compounds which suit their needs, because they obviously hate katakana words
:-)

I haven't seen 奸閥 itself, and both 奸 and 閥 are not commonly used today.

  * 奸: I barely know that this kanji was used in some historical contexts and means a morally evil person. But I can safely say this kanji is almost dead today among ordinary people. かん is the only reading I know.
  * 閥: 財閥 and 学閥 are the only words I know, both of which have negative connotations. ばつ is the only reading I know.

So the word 奸閥 looks reasonable to me as a _historical_ word that means "evil
syndicate." I'm not sure if this is a real word or a made-up one (either by a
real political group or the anime staff).

