🎎 日本の歴史まんが Week 4

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Week 4

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Start Date: August 9
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Week Start Date Chapter and part Page numbers Number of pages
4 August 9 Chapter 2, part 2 86-113 28

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A sobering reminder that, in real life, bullies often end up on the winning side of history…

At least nowadays we’re more civilized and wouldn’t allow such a thing.

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I thought Shiro was a girl and that she was supposed to be Kuro’s love interest :sweat_smile: It wasn’t until he offered him his daughter that I realised it was a guy haha

Though I did wonder about Shiro’s increasingly masculine face as ‘she’ was growing up lol

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I feel like the primary tension driving this chapter never really gets addressed by its end…

Hah, same here, though I started to twig at the “increasingly masculine face” bit. Realised on re-consulting the start of the chapter that he was introduced as 大陸から来た少年, which might have been a bit of a clue…

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Yeah, it’s Yumi and Hajime from the Joumon period all over again. So much tension, and then…time skip, everyone is dead. I know the characters and their conflicts are just there to highlight the historical developments, but it’s still getting frustrating to never get a proper resolution.

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Ngl, I was surprised older Shiro didn’t drop a line like, “The moon was beautiful when we were younger.”

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Yeah based on the first page of the chapter (and the precedent set by chapter 1) I assumed it would be a boy/girl story again so I paid extra attention when the character was introduced. Especially since I regularly struggle to identify the gender of people in manga… If they don’t have facial hair it’s a coin flip basically.

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I’m mildly amused by the fact that when クロ goes to the dark side he doesn’t just get desensitized to violence towards other humans, but also turns into a total megalomaniac. That doesn’t seem like a particularly realistic character development to me, but reading him as an allegory for how the culture developed (or rather, is believed to have developed) it kind of makes sense.

I kind of thought シロ was going to represent another aspect of culture in that time (like a group that were pacifists) but then … nothing happened.

Oh well! Next chapter has ()卑ひ弥み呼こ! So I’m really excited about that.

Also, I miiiiiight be the proud new owner of 15 volumes of manga history. :sweat_smile: So keep your eyes peeled for an offshoot poll if you’re interested in that kind of thing. :smiley:

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Idk, there was a time skip of at least two decades at some point, and people can just change a lot in that amount of time. Especially as people started to treat Kuro like their leader more and more, I don’t think it’s unrealistic for something like that to go to someone’s head.. But the rapid changes to society were probably a condensed version of something that happened over several generations.

I thought he might represent some sort of scientific advancement, because he kept talking about studying the stars. But nothing came of that, either. I also felt a little sad that Kuro’s daughter got introduced and then dropped two pages later. Guess she was forced to become the child bride of one of his toxically masculine retainers.

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