Akira Failing in Love - Vol. 4 Ch. 33 - I'm Just Doing My Job

[Tsukaami2]

Ayoooo, this was a banger chapter🤣🤣🤣
Thx for the chapter

 

[Toofoof]

Peak

 

[ItsThatBriGuy]

Previewing the Jin x Kana BokuYaba spinoff.

 

[Bornsinner]

This made me laugh more than it should have lol

 

[freakofnature]

Okay, that was straight up hilarious.

 

[D0ncoming5torm]

Cop just ignored those two other girls to potentially get mauled by a bear so that he can get some teen love drama...can't really fault him. Akira and Hajime are 1000% tooth-rotting sweetness together.

 

[Shibanova]

This guy and her is my new favs right here and I want more with 10+ series with these folks

 

[huntercheco]

Poor shrimp mascot got an eyeball socked out

 

[darkesword]

I want to live in this town.

 

[praisejesus]

 

[GamingSage]

Was that an Akita slide?

 

[Tobesmgobes17]

New favorite character unlocked

 

[GoldenOx]

Niggatta Police.... Nuf said

 

[Figtree22]

New favorite characters just dropped

 

[Shitty]

ACAB includes the cop so socially awkward that he becomes hostile to everyone around him

Also mirrors my experience riding in a police car after hitting a deer, except I got patted down for knives and ran for warrants. There's a reason nobody ever says fuck the fire department.

Bro relax it's a manga

 

[bluenorvo]

Truly the town of cute dorks

 

[jonsmth]

The chapter also illustrates why ACAB is a thing. In any other job, these two fools would be cheerily flirt-failing. But instead they're harassing teenagers and roughing up city employees (While flirt-failing).

Bro, they live in the boonies and there is a bear sighting. The 2 species of bears in Japan are both known to be dangerous.

Also, what are you gonna do when you get a suspicious person report and the moment you get there, you see that suspicious person terrorizing children?

I hope you're being facetious and it's going over my head.

 

[outinthegardener]

Bro, they live in the boonies and there is a bear sighting. The 2 species of bears in Japan are both known to be dangerous.

Also, what are you gonna do when you get a suspicious person report and the moment you get there, you see that suspicious person terrorizing children?

I hope you're being facetious and it's going over my head.

I am being facetious and serious both, and since you seem to be engaging in good faith I'll elaborate. You've raised two arguments.

First, the bear. "We've heard there's a bear so we're pulling kids off the mountain" is an overreaction. Yes, bears are dangerous. So are cars, gas heaters, mosquitos, and running with scissors. People who live in bear territory typically know what to do when they encounter a bear. It's not the police's responsibility to drive around and force people to avoid risk. Let's also objectively describe what the cop actually accomplished. They never encountered a bear, they were never in danger. But they did stop him from getting some tasty fiddlehead ferns (Can confirm, they're a treat!).

Second, a "suspicious person terrorizing children." There's a lot of qualifiers and subjectivity in that statement. What are we judging is suspicious, how are they terrorizing the children, etc. If they're just asking for directions or giving the kids their ball back, then involving the police is an overreaction. But let's assume it's the worst case scenario and the kids are in danger. You can call the police, then wait for them to arrive. Unlike on TV the cops don't rush at the speed of light and arrive in time. They could take fifteen minutes, they could take an hour. By then the harm is already committed. Instead of assuming the police will swoop in, I would approach the suspicious person and redirect them.

What actually happened? In this story, the police officer IMMEDIATELY resorted to violence. He didn't take stock of the situation. The costumed mascots were not touching inappropriately, screaming at, or restraining the kids. They were just near the kids. The officer COULD have walked up and said "What are you doing with this costume around these kids" and found out that they were official city mascots. Instead, he tackled one and hurt them. One of the mascots was crying after being attacked. Objectively, the police caused far more harm than the suspicious person. And speaking of "Terrorizing children," the cop caused some discomfort and terror to our main characters by escorting them off the mountain, glaring at them, and asking them about their romantic lives (They're children! Maybe not appropriate to ask children about romance.)

I know that these are fictional police and their behavior was exaggerated for comedy, so in that sense my "ACAB" joke is a little facetious. I do think that studies of policing in real life don't paint the police favorably, and that there are better ways we could encourage neighborly behavior in society. The arguments for "ACAB" would extend this post quite a lot, but if you're interested I'd continue. For now I'll make some generalized claims that form the basis of why I'm happy to say ACAB in a gag manga.

1) Police don't prevent crime, they punish people after crimes have happened. This may deter crimes from happening, but there are other less violent ways of deterring crimes.
2) Crimes and Laws are not absolute rules. Often they are written to defend the power and authority of the dominant socio-economic class and to harm the oppressed classes. This is especially true in my country, the USA, which has the highest population of prisoners per capita than any other country. Most of them are people of color, poor, and non-violent offenders.
3) Media representations of police wildly misrepresent what police actually do in practice. This "copaganda" creates a false image of professional and competent police, when the reality is that many police are thugs. I'll link to this detailed study of criminal gangs formed within the Los Angeles Police Department. Copaganda is a powerful tool that oppressive states use to manufacture consent for state violence, and it should be called out and challenged, even in fluffy romance manga or children's cartoons. After all, it opened up this dialogue!

 

[IotaCS]

First, the bear. "We've heard there's a bear so we're pulling kids off the mountain" is an overreaction. Yes, bears are dangerous. So are cars, gas heaters, mosquitos, and running with scissors. People who live in bear territory typically know what to do when they encounter a bear. It's not the police's responsibility to drive around and force people to avoid risk.

This one paragraph is all that's really needed to demonstrate how genuinely retarded you are lmao (then again I've never met a single "ACAB" person who wasn't stupid enough to be borderline mentally disabled). If you hear that a bear has been seen around the mountain, and you decide "nah that's chill, no more dangerous than being around cars!", then I sincerely hope that you never have kids, for their sake. And on top of the fact that unlike a car or scissors, bears are in fact wild animals (I know, crazy right!?), Asian black bears are far more aggressive and dangerous than American black bears (I'm assuming you're American, that seems to be where the majority of the anti-cop dumbfucks come from), and attacks have become more frequent in recent years.

Let's also objectively describe what the cop actually accomplished. They never encountered a bear, they were never in danger. But they did stop him from getting some tasty fiddlehead ferns (Can confirm, they're a treat!).

I bet you're one of the cunts who'd be complaining that the cops didn't do their jobs if the kids had been attacked by a bear. Honestly can't win with your sort.



And on top of all that - it's a fucking manga you weirdo. Imagine being so brainrotted that you feel an overwhelming need to inject your real-world political views into a fictional comedy story, just to virtue signal to people on a manga website.

 

[outinthegardener]

This one paragraph is all that's really needed to demonstrate how genuinely retarded you are lmao (then again I've never met a single "ACAB" person who wasn't stupid enough to be borderline mentally disabled). If you hear that a bear has been seen around the mountain, and you decide "nah that's chill, no more dangerous than being around cars!", then I sincerely hope that you never have kids, for their sake. And on top of the fact that unlike a car or scissors, bears are in fact wild animals (I know, crazy right!?), Asian black bears are far more aggressive and dangerous than American black bears (I'm assuming you're American, that seems to be where the majority of the anti-cop dumbfucks come from), and attacks have become more frequent in recent years.


I bet you're one of the cunts who'd be complaining that the cops didn't do their jobs if the kids had been attacked by a bear. Honestly can't win with your sort.



And on top of all that - it's a fucking manga you weirdo. Imagine being so brainrotted that you feel an overwhelming need to inject your real-world political views into a fictional comedy story, just to virtue signal to people on a manga website.

You're engaging in bad faith. You're arguing against straw man claims I never made, while ignoring the actual arguments I did make.

From Reuters: "A record 219 people were victims of bear attacks, six of them fatal, in the 12 months through March 2024," while according to the national police agency Japan had 2,663 vehicle deaths in 2024. Sounds like I should be more worried about cars.