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| THIS IS A MANGA ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS ANYTHING BEYOND THIS CHAPTER. ---------------------------------------- Harada has proven himself to be fearsome. He’s tenacious, striking Ginji down with a single attack after cracking his code and using it against him. Stabbing Ken in the hand and tracking his sacrificial strategy. Laying an unlikely sanshoku trap which only Akagi Shigeru could avoid and in a mere moment pretending to ron as a backup plan. Like Akagi later says in this chapter, “everyone did a good job”. Harada wanted to poison east once more. If Hiroyuki took out Akagi, he believed there would be bad blood spread throughout east. It would tarnish their play in the final showdown. And in a totally unexpected turn of events, our heroes flipping uradora has us tense for the opposite reason than usual, we hope to heck that we do not get any. After the events turned out okay for east, Harada angrily took a break, they played mahjong for an entire day after all and each got rooms and meals to get some energy and sleep. This does make me worry about dirty play outside of the match. Before Hiroyuki flipped the uradora he had a thought to sacrifice himself by bolding breaking the tiles and making them impossible to read. While potentially admirable, Akagi didn’t see it that way. To do such an act would be blasphemous in his eyes. To go with this, we saw that Akagi never showed a moment of fear for what was to come. He smiled when Harada first tricked Hiroyuki, as perhaps this is literally to follow chance into death and he respected Harada’s craftiness, either way he dissuaded Hiroyuki from nullifying the situation. As always with Akagi, he ends up giving monologues with paradoxes within them. This one with two components. As already suggested, cheating is not what he views as sacrilegious to the game, but rather, after devoting themselves to it, to refuse to play along is disrespectful. Rather than playing to win, this speaks to playing for the sake of playing which goes back to why he came out of hiding those years ago, to play Ten and have a challenge. Cheating is a part of the game, if one cannot prove you cheated then there is nothing to be done, but to cheat so blatantly, so clumsily, goes against everything. Further, the second part of his monologue was quite pretty. The road of taking responsibility isn’t the rash move of suicide, it’s to continue respecting the game and to stay calm until the end of the road, I suppose, to take responsibility through making that mistake up. I want to see Akagi alone more because outside of the game of mahjong, the small amounts of his life that we see are always intriguing. There was a call back to Akagi getting sushi made just for him and we know he did go to hawaii to golf, referring to it as a tricky game back in chapter 36. So, I appreciated getting a quiet moment of him sitting alone here. And what came with it, a nice panel of sleeping Ten and Hiroyuki awkwardly trying to make amends with his hero Akagi. |
| Wow, this game is taking lots of turns and is quite exciting! For a moment I thought Akagi was done for, but even though this could have been an unfortunate turn of events for him, he had luck in the end! I mean of course he did, it's Akagi. Hiroyuki almost screwed up again, but I am glad he didn't. And in a way I can see where Akagi is coming from. Destroying the wall would have been an act of desperation, an obvious cheat that doesn't require any skill. He could have just as well broken the walls in the middle of a round and get disqualified that way, it would not have been any different. But that's not the kind of game Akagi wants to play - or the others for that matter. |
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