FX Senshi Kurumi-chan

[SteamedBunInvasion]

Dang, events that happened few years ago is already a historical moment... Are we old already?

Nintendo Wii was 17 years ago

 

[BlackElite]

Nintendo Wii was 17 years ago

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Saipulipoel]

some wiseman once said "If you're doing forex, you're indirectly praying for a country to go bankrupt."

 

[TurtlerTim]

update when?

 

[Senros]

I wish someone would redo the first 27 chapters. I feel like I'll get an aneurysm from reading it...

 

[NonSum]

The best works always come from personal experience. Here too the author writes about what he himself experienced. The behavior of the characters and how people become gambling addicts are very realistic here. Gambling addiction here is even more realistic than in other works about gambling, but at the same time not as grim and grotesque as in works about the yakuza. Well, initially everything was like this, but then the author begins to pay more attention to Mochiko. Often enough to ask questions like “why are the other characters still friends with her?” and “why did she become successful in trading in the first place?” You see, Mochiko is the biggest bitch in history. Mochiko can even compete with Griffith for this title. She does not evoke sympathy in the reader. Not a bit. At all. She is the embodiment of the proverb homo homini lupus. Firstly, she advertises a real casino to each of her friends. An analogy for this would be a drug dealer friend who offers everyone a free dose, hoping it will ruin their life. Moreover, she advises very unreliable rates. In the first chapters, Mochiko, at Kurumi’s first successes, advises her to invest money in the very unstable jpy/aud rate in the hope that Kurumi will lose everything. It’s as if a person who owns Bitcoin advised buying Trumpcoin. Secondly, Mochiko believes that she has the moral right to teach others about life. Bitch, just because you were bullied doesn't give you the right to lend a girl from an ordinary family two million yen with an interest rate of 109.5, and then advise her to work in a brothel. She didn't do anything to you, so why are you doing this to her. And you weren’t even bullied so cruelly that you became angry at the whole world. Thirdly, the fact that she was able to make money on futures is unrealistic. You can look at statistics on the Internet, the vast majority of people lose money on this and only one percent comes out with the same amount they came with. Yep, technical analysis, books, all this is one big deception so that people continue to bring money to the brokers. And what’s worst is that even in slots you have a better chance of ending up with the same money you brought in than in trading. Literally. Statistically, slot sites get rich thanks to transaction fees and the three to four percent of people who lose. The other 96 percent don't lose money.

 

[Derpthenerd]

misery porn with money

 

[scrangos]

i was expecting something either fun or some power fantasy but this is pretty harrowing and depressing

 

[SteamedBunInvasion]

ANIME ADAPTATION CONFIRMED PogChamp

 

[huntercheco]

ANIME ADAPTATION CONFIRMED PogChamp

Get ready!

 

[Eywax]

This manga is truly one of a kind, a true masterpiece. It has a strong sense of realism and shows human nature when faced with the danger of diving into a world like trading : the endless spiral of wanting to recover everything that was lost, even if it means sinking deeper into debt, the loss of common sense, the loss of rational thinking, lying to oneself, the unhealthy side of certain social relationships, the many financial, psychological, and physical consequences, the acceptance of losing everything, the shame of losing everything, and in the worst cases, the point of no return…


But obviously, the most disturbing and most realistic aspect of all is the abject human greed, that is limitless.


Many times, I found myself relating to the main characters. Not because I’ve done FX trading (I haven’t), but because those human reactions : wanting to get everything back, lying to yourself, impulsivity, etc., etc. also happen in small, everyday situations in life.


Yes, I’ve lost 20 matches in a row in a video game, thinking: “As soon as I get one win back, I’ll stop, I promise. But I can’t stop on this many losses, I need to recover at least a bit of what I lost.” That’s what I was telling myself. But now, looking back, I’m actually glad I lost those games. It was just a game. Would I be able to say the same thing if it were about money?


This manga educates us. It helps us better understand how the economy, trading, and investing work, and it makes us aware of the dangers behind them, etc.
But the beauty, the artistic, mind-blowing beauty, lies in the message it delivers. It’s NOT saying “run away! don’t invest, don’t do FX trading!” NO. Depending on your interpretation, I’d even say it encourages it. But there’s a clear difference between investing or trading in a healthy, controlled way, and literally gambling... That’s the message of the manga.
That being said, for the vast majority of people, Fx trading is still NO different from gambling. So stay away, folks.

My final rating for this manga is therefore 9.5/10. Most of the -0.5 only comes from the fact that that Mochiko, as a character, was written a bit awkwardly in my opinion. She is just objectively a bad person, there is almost no nuance. And yet, everyone in the manga seems to think it’s no big deal. I mean, in real life, someone like that would face consequences. She doesn’t. Still, I’m glad she was able to get a somewhat redemption toward the end of the first major arc.