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Post #232035 - Reply to (#222897) by Fobia
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9:50 am, Nov 29 2008
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It's strange that no one brought this up, but did anyone consider the possibility that this manga is a political outlet meant to educate people?

I don't live in Japan nor know what's going on there, but if you understand the financial policies the manga talks about (post beginning), it's very feasible for the stuff the manga talks about to be real.

For example, some of the stuff that I can relate to are the uncontrolled debt and credit expansion the manga talks about. This is something the US had started doing in the 70s, but the concept is quite old, and is actually a pretty dangerous thing. It's something that eventually leads to economic instability and maldistribution of wealth.

So while I don't know what's going on in Japan, some of the stuff mentioned in the manga happens in the US too. So who knows. The manga may very well be talking about real things going on in Japan in an attempt to educate the readers, or at least make them less ignorant.



My thoughts exactly. Most people are probably in it for the action and the gore (which does make it awesome bigrazz ), but I am very interested in the politics of Akumetsu, and Shou's view on the way his country is slowly decaying. Woah, Déjà vu...


Is economy 101, but yeah this manga seems to want to educate people, it was published in the 2003, when Japan was finally starting to recover of their super economic mess up, the author probably wants the future generations to avoid the same mistakes... is interesting to see the same thing happening again, but this time in a more world wide scale (being the US the roots of it)

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3:27 pm, Jan 4 2009
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The whole psychological part of Akumetsu is what interests me. How all of the Akumetsu's are willing to die for the destruction of evil. How the people react to him.
People actually cheered for a terrorist! Isn't that amazing? All because of his 'One man, one kill' policy.

The main character also continues to stay interesting. He's smart, cunning, funny, charming, immortal, AND a terrorist. Come on, what else would you want to be?

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2:10 am, Apr 6 2009
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this manga is updated rather frequently now, If i recall correctly there's been at least one chapter a week or more.

and yeah it is pretty sweet, though some of these economic things go a little over my head even though i took macroeconomics in college.

Despite my apparent lack of knowledge on corruption within an economy the series stays appealing through the mystery surrounding the apparent immortal protagonist (if you can call that immortality) and just the situations he often gets himself into to resolve the economic crisis.

its definitely an awesome manga and definitely a much needed one giving how few manga lately are fresh and without an insane amount of cliches.

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