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| THIS IS A MANGA ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS ANYTHING BEYOND THIS CHAPTER. ---------------------------------------- Harada’s conversation with Akagi was an interesting one. It was philosophical rather than emotional for me. This chapter delves into striking imagery, the coffin of success. Through Akagi’s life he succeeded but he always made sure to throw it away, he refused to let it pile up like Harada had because it surrounds you. Trying to preserve that success, one loses the ability to laugh, to express anger, and even to cry when they want to cry, something Kurosawa once memorably noted you should be able to do. Our freedom is already threatened, we are constrained by the laws of physics and man made laws. One doesn’t need to seek more to hold them down. I think we saw a glimpse of the desire Akagi picked up on in Harada in the end of the east west battle, where cheating was discarded and Harada threatened only negative results for west challenging Ten to the tiebreaker. Chasing the moment that mahjong fanatics refuse to let go of. Until then he was a collected guy, doing what he could to win, but it’s as if he let his coffin loosen for a moment. The metaphor is strong. A powerful and rich man is the one with no freedom. The man who denounced that success rather than protecting it is a man of freedom. The coffin imagery is frightening, and I adored the panels of Harada thinking over what Akagi said. It showed some of that integrity inside of him which we saw at the end of the battle, this time in acknowledging that Akagi was right. Did I die…? While I’m alive… I’m half dead.. Or at least not fully active…! It made for a human moment, and I liked his smile after all was said and done. Perhaps a weight was lifted off his shoulders.That said, this isn’t just Akagi giving therapy to all his apostles. Harada, a man who hadn’t acknowledged his desire to die, suggested that Akagi is a man who is ignoring his desire to live. As it was there for Harada, it is too there for Akagi, the pounding desire to live. Two notes, not necessarily connected to this chapter directly, but the image of Harada being weighed down reminds me when Akagi said: You’re letting yourself be held captive. You should take lighter steps in your game. Right now your footsteps are thumping around. It’s ungainly. That and I like that Akagi, despite having this elusive image, stated himself that he does not in fact enjoy getting hurt or bleeding, that is not what he seeks, because it puts him on the same axis as us, seeking thrills, or salvation, or trying to find our ‘life’. |
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