Akumetsu - Vol. 7 Ch. 61 - Akumetsu's True Motive

[MangaDex]

 

[Konrad2]

Thanks for the translation.

 

[4fliction]

Thanks for the translation.

 

[radkube]

Thanks for the translation
#Thx4TranslationGang

 

[arksiane]

What bullshit lmao. Dude literally like clones himself and acts like his suicide matters.

 

[sUxToBeU]

Common Akumetsu W

 

[AngelHQ]

What bullshit lmao. Dude literally like clones himself and acts like his suicide matters.

I mean, the clones have a life of themselves. But still.

The point about not being terrorism but it being "Akumetsu" is what's really a lie. Also suicide bombing is also terrorism, the host pointed that out.

 

[Bossrudy]

What bullshit lmao. Dude literally like clones himself and acts like his suicide matters.

If you kept reading you would know that each shou is an individual and literally experiences death every time, even though they retain memories the shou that dies dies.

 

[arksiane]

If you kept reading you would know that each shou is an individual and literally experiences death every time, even though they retain memories the shou that dies dies.

Damn, that comment was years ago. I've finished the story by now, and I think the story is fundamentally hypocritical regardless of this fact. Akumetsu knows what he's doing has no real justification, solves nothing, and just hurts people in the end. He's doing it out of resentment and anger, he has no solution to the problems Japan is facing. This has always just felt like a rather juvenile story to me, an author realizing mid-manga that there's no true justification for the main characters actions and trying to weasel out of this fact. YMMV, though.

 

[grandMagusRubick]

The point about not being terrorism but it being "Akumetsu" is what's really a lie. Also suicide bombing is also terrorism, the host pointed that out.

I believe the distinction Akumetsu is trying to make is the precision that differentiates terrorism and "an Akumetsu".

If a suicide bomber walks into a politician's office and detonates a bomb, he may very well kill the "evil" politician, but he also presumably kills several innocent civilians. The deaths of innocents is unjustifiable, so such a person is deemed a terrorist and "evil".

If, hypothetically speaking, a young man named Mario Luigione walks up to the CEO of a major healthcare insurer in New York and allegedly puts a bullet into the back of his head, there are no indirect casualties. No innocents are harmed or, quite frankly, even at risk. Does that mean Mario is legally in the right? No. But it does make it emotionally and ethically easier to justify Mario's actions if the CEO were committing heinous yet legal acts.

Minus the exploding head gear, we would then be seeing a real-life embodiment of the Akumetsu ideals: terror is not the goal but simply a byproduct of attempting to course-correct a broken system which has purposefully removed any legal means of fixing itself.