Candy & Cigarettes - Vol. 1 Ch. 1 - The Old Man and Crime

[MangaDex]

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Great art,also that panties has some heavy duty band to hold a pistol tight.hahah.

 

[Lynkaster]

that grandpa is so cool~~ ?

 

[thegentelman]

11 years old, really?

 

[Shamz]

xD is every old man in mangas this op... i swear this going to become a trope soon and im going to enjoy them

 

[undercurses]

an 11 y.o girl muscle can handle 9mm recoil easily, what kind of training she's undergo tho ...
even she can rapid fire 5 bullets ...

edit: ooh it's a .45 ... not 9mm

 

[kwendy]

I feel like this manga isn't meant to make sense.

 

[ShadowWalker]

Wonder what they do with the bodies...underground organ trade?

 

[Sparkling_Eyes]

SS Agency... = Schutzstaffel Agency?

 

[timidhakana]

i legit concerned about the fact that mafia leader calling a damn little girl, jesus.

 

[light7s]

 

[BakedBanana]

Love the old man, good first chapter.

 

[bigtiddyoneesan]

@pandascepter
cool geezers are my favorite kind of geezers

 

[pandascepter]

@pandascepter
cool geezers are my favorite kind of geezers

so true

 

[AngelHQ]

I feel like this manga isn't meant to make sense.

It's like, "we use children and kill people at our discretion but it's ok because we're the government". Also

If she had the muscles to handle that kind of gun in that way, she would be swole. And that would be suspicious af.

 

[AngelHQ]

SS Agency... = Schutzstaffel Agency?

Pretty sure it's a reference for the SS, there's even a poster behind the employer with an image resembling that of the nazi's organization.

 

[AngelHQ]

Wonder what they do with the bodies...underground organ trade?

I shouldn't be responding to every comment but, anyways... It's the government, so they'd be better off disposing of the bodies since they don't need the money.

 

[AngelHQ]

i legit concerned about the fact that mafia leader calling a damn little girl, jesus.

It's a mafia leader, since when they have a moral reputation to protect?

(it's a rethorical question but you're free to give an answer however you want, if any)

 

[Jelly_Storm]

Pretty sure it's a reference for the SS, there's even a poster behind the employer with an image resembling that of the nazi's organization.

The swastika is a commonly used religious image in japan, having a long history in Buddhism.
The poster is a shogun clan crest I believe, these often involve a thick outer circle with the main crest inside. Interestingly there used to actually be a crest which was a swastika (or manji) inside. The Hachisuka. It predated the Nazi party a couple of centuries please mind.

I believe a few of these are still in use today, most famously being the Mitsubishi logo, which is a combination of two crests.

The the fact that the one on the wall is western characters in a traditional crest and is probably supposed to signify the shadyness of the organisation. As for the SS connection... I doubt it. Japan doesn't really teach much about that era even regarding Imperial Japans horrible crimes, let alone the Nazi ones. If the Japanese latch onto them it's usually because they think the uniforms are cool. That and the organisation doesn't seem to have much parallels. Though I'm on my first chapter so maybe they will change.

Now I am by no means an expert on japanese heraldry so I would recommend doing your own research into the subject as I'm sure it's a fascinating rabbit hole.

 

[AngelHQ]

The swastika is a commonly used religious image in japan, having a long history in Buddhism.
The poster is a shogun clan crest I believe, these often involve a thick outer circle with the main crest inside. Interestingly there used to actually be a crest which was a swastika (or manji) inside. The Hachisuka. It predated the Nazi party a couple of centuries please mind.

I believe a few of these are still in use today, most famously being the Mitsubishi logo, which is a combination of two crests.

The the fact that the one on the wall is western characters in a traditional crest and is probably supposed to signify the shadyness of the organisation. As for the SS connection... I doubt it. Japan doesn't really teach much about that era even regarding Imperial Japans horrible crimes, let alone the Nazi ones. If the Japanese latch onto them it's usually because they think the uniforms are cool. That and the organisation doesn't seem to have much parallels. Though I'm on my first chapter so maybe they will change.

Now I am by no means an expert on japanese heraldry so I would recommend doing your own research into the subject as I'm sure it's a fascinating rabbit hole.

Thank you for your thoughtfulness in that comment.
I think I dropped this one pretty quick because I remember almost nothing about it, even if I wrote so many comments.