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| THIS IS A MANGA ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS ANYTHING BEYOND THIS CHAPTER. ---------------------------------------- Soga described my feelings over Akagi perfectly as he connected and opened up to his blacksuit friend. I think it hit so hard for Akagi to lack knowledge of how the game worked because it showed his beauty was still functional, but it was absolutely on its last legs. His inability to even play mahjong and now this. It was evidently one of the last strides of Akagi Shigeru in all of its beauty. As if now or soon he would be uttering as that eagle would: “Enough..” But it’s nothing to cry over! I know this and Soga knows this, there is no shame in living and dying freely. He is strong to have understood that, and to tie back to the blacksuit, I feel this is an experience he won’t be forgetting. I already felt there was a connection between them and then we got a huge panel of them taking each other's hands as he helped Soga onto his wheelchair. It was a touch to this chapter which wasn’t necessary but felt so pretty. A great man once said, the difference between animals and humans is that surviving isn’t enough for us. It goes to then ask, what is our functional beauty? This makes me think of Akagi’s confidence in asserting that he is biased and my friend suggested that our functional beauty as humans is more personal. This ties to something the great Keatsta once suggested, that once humans have achieved the bare necessity of comfortable living, to have a meaningful life they need something more, it ought to be something personal, something driving them. In this way Akagi had isolated his pride and his meaning in his ability and talent to play games. That was, as it tied back to Sawada, a world only he could see. A connection to Fukumoto’s other works I love is the notion of being on your deathbed and regretting the life you lived. There is nothing forcing Akagi’s death here, nothing but his own will. And if he stays strong in that, and dies fulfilled and without regret, then it’s certainly a positive message on living a life as free and full as possible. |
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