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| THIS IS A MANGA ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS ANYTHING BEYOND THIS CHAPTER. ---------------------------------------- This chapter chose to flash through this horrifying period rather than ruminate on it. I understand the choice, and what’s here is good. I however was still a little disappointed and sad. I wanted to see the thought process of Gai in far more detail, I wanted to see him tussle with the isolation and dehumanization that was going on and find ways to hold himself together. Instead we hardly saw him until he had said he was on the verge of breaking. Fukumoto could have had moments of the cast here trying to come together and raise morale. At one point I had hoped they would start singing in the way slaves would, or how Brook would in One Piece. But, as I said I understand this choice. This is not a series about that, it has a lot more to do. Instead it focussed on the fast breaking down of the children to the point of insanity and groveling. It focussed on the directors cruelty and views. It was focussed on breaking down the human spirit to its lowest form. A word that spirals around my head often when I read Gai is “integrity”. In this chapter specifically we heard that Yukio bullied someone to the point of mental derangement and continued past that, “it’s downright abuse”. Clearly this Yukio has no sense of integrity because he violates other’s human rights without care and then tries to say he deserves his to be respected when it’s for his sake. The director it's interesting, he is doing what Yukio did to that kid to everyone here. He is tormenting them to the point of mental derangement, the narrator didn’t even know the exact amount of days they were there. Yet in his eyes, he sees what he is doing as justified because the other person did it first and is therefore bad. There is a level of integrity here but he is, as it is commonly said, becoming as bad as they are. One could argue that if the director really thinks that these acts are so bad then he should work around them and not partake within them. But that does come back to his thought that this is the only way to do this, so I hope that if he does see another choice in the future he may change, I also hope that his integrity is true and if he learns that Gai was framed then he’ll come around. And now, we have Gai, the boy with an incredibly high level of integrity from his past at the very least. He had the mindset that despite him not acting ungrateful and entitled, the fact that he was not independent meant he could not even criticize those that were ungrateful and entitled. Gai said if he did he would be the pot calling the kettle black, which I think we can see with the directors actions. And gosh, the director is cruel. He actually reminds me of the middle schoolers in Kurosawa, you know the ones if you read it. He’s trying to force someone into a state like this and force them to apologize for things that they may not even consider blameworthy. Once he got all these kids into a deranged state where all they wanted was to escape he asked them if they thought the human institute was just. In the sense that he's forcing them to apologize even though I highly doubt that they sincerely mean those words, one could take this as meaning they should say yes. It’s a trick question and only Ishihara and Gai saw through it. I wonder how they will get out of this crushing… Is it to scare them, or will they be able to have a discussion with the director as it's coming down? Or perhaps something altogether different? P.S. I was so grateful that there was a toilet hole, in my head I was imagining them pooping everywhere and having to live around their own feces. In fact I don't fully understand why the director didn't have them do that, it would have been another level of dehumanizing them. |
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