Sora Yori Takaku - Vol. 21 Ch. 270 - Rimon, Dictator of the Diet Tribe!?

[MangaDex]

 

[HORRIOR]

So, who is the victim of this arc's satire?

 

[pdonk]

I feel like Sora ought to shrug off a blow to the head like that. Has he gotten weaker?

 

[SystematicChaos]

So, who is the victim of this arc's satire?

Fans of Y2K-era Japanese politics are going to love this arc. The character of Rimon is a sendup of prime minister Yoshiro Mori, a highly unpopular PM whose one-year term was defined by gaffes. The last line of the chapter is a reference to one such gaffe, where he said the word "IT revolution" but read "IT" as the word "it" rather than "eye-tee." You may remember more recently and far after the manga's conclusion, he headed the organizing committee for the Tokyo Olympics, but resigned due to controversy over his statement that meetings with lots of women tend to drag on "because women talk too much." He was described in the press as having "the heart of a flea and the brain of a shark" (remember that one).

 

[redpanther]

Fans of Y2K-era Japanese politics are going to love this arc. The character of Rimon is a sendup of prime minister Yoshiro Mori, a highly unpopular PM whose one-year term was defined by gaffes. The last line of the chapter is a reference to one such gaffe, where he said the word "IT revolution" but read "IT" as the word "it" rather than "eye-tee." You may remember more recently and far after the manga's conclusion, he headed the organizing committee for the Tokyo Olympics, but resigned due to controversy over his statement that meetings with lots of women tend to drag on "because women talk too much." He was described in the press as having "the heart of a flea and the brain of a shark" (remember that one).

Has a feeling that that Yakuza school manga got axed(before being revived and completed in the sequel ) probably because the real yakuza was pissed... And now he tried to pissed off the PM of Japan himself.... The author really has a big ball, lol.

 

[SystematicChaos]

Has a feeling that that Yakuza school manga got axed(before being revived and completed in the sequel ) probably because the real yakuza was pissed... And now he tried to pissed off the PM of Japan himself.... The author really has a big ball, lol.

That axing was fairly well-documented and one of the few cases where we know for sure that it was cancelled and why. It was a school that was pissed, not the yakuza. One of Miyashita's assistants accidentally snuck in the name of a real school in the list of schools the villain had taken over, and that school complained to Shueisha for being associated with the series, so Shueisha held Miyashita responsible for not supervising his assistants enough.

As for this, though, political satire is well protected in Japan's constitution under freedom of expression. And don't forget that pretty much nobody liked Mori. Miyashita's got big balls, but this isn't why.

 

[redpanther]

That axing was fairly well-documented and one of the few cases where we know for sure that it was cancelled and why. It was a school that was pissed, not the yakuza. One of Miyashita's assistants accidentally snuck in the name of a real school in the list of schools the villain had taken over, and that school complained to Shueisha for being associated with the series, so Shueisha held Miyashita responsible for not supervising his assistants enough.

As for this, though, political satire is well protected in Japan's constitution under freedom of expression. And don't forget that pretty much nobody liked Mori. Miyashita's got big balls, but this isn't why.

Thank you. I had no idea that the real reason was actually quite less dramatic than I expected.

 

[lonce]

Fans of Y2K-era Japanese politics are going to love this arc. The character of Rimon is a sendup of prime minister Yoshiro Mori, a highly unpopular PM whose one-year term was defined by gaffes. The last line of the chapter is a reference to one such gaffe, where he said the word "IT revolution" but read "IT" as the word "it" rather than "eye-tee." You may remember more recently and far after the manga's conclusion, he headed the organizing committee for the Tokyo Olympics, but resigned due to controversy over his statement that meetings with lots of women tend to drag on "because women talk too much." He was described in the press as having "the heart of a flea and the brain of a shark" (remember that one).

So that's why Chiyo's dad got so pissed at Osaka comparing him to Mori. Thanks for solving such an old mistery.

 

[hahanaho]

Miyashita's got big balls, but this isn't why.

Why then?