Despite Coming From the Abyss, I Will Save Humanity - Ch. 146 - In The Name Of The Hero

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Not entirely sure if this is ended or not.
  • Chapter panel has end of season 1
  • Tencent has delisted/deleted the series
  • BiliBili has the chapter titled "Final chapter"
  • Kakao Hiatus
  • Naver Currently publishing (last upload ch56 Dec 2024)
So make of that as you will
 
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Not entirely sure if this is ended or not.
  • Chapter panel has end of season 1
  • Tencent has delisted/deleted the series
  • BiliBili has the chapter titled "Final chapter"
  • Kakao Hiatus
  • Naver Currently publishing (last upload ch56 Dec 2024)
So make of that as you will
wheres the naver for this manhua?
 
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And the overall message is to do human rights violations and allow some complaints, but anything is justified for stability. 'The Villain Wins for now, it's fine to be annoyed, but accept it.' There will be mistakes but better the autocrat than being too weak or whatever.

Part of why the story sucked is cultural... Heroism and justified autocratic actions vary by country.

I liked the semi-generic art and tone, bits? of the writing?, I overall like the manhua, an S2 would be nice, but for reals this is a case of 'yeah that aspect is painfully bad to take seriously' And now we're at the end(?) so I can vent serious style a bit.

Trope: Overall the hero is tragically at cross-purposes with the well-meaning horribly cruel villain, good folks lose practically or ideologically to the faithful to "ends justify the means". Any means.

China and some other cultures have higher rates of media that says directly or indirectly via sort of bad guys that "I know we caused damage, and had a few fuckups, but it was worth it". Usually coming off of atrocities of past claimed-heritage or current society. Maybe outright stated or implicit, maybe a bone thrown to having empathy, but empathy weak autocrat strong vibe irks me. That applies to historical media and modern media. Some is just trends, some is intentional propaganda (this aint). The hero themself can greatly vary, but they lose by force or ideologically are converted. They could become the new villain but more often the villain's necessary evil is taken on credit, or the villain loses but within the story logic they did good overall (atrocities included). In this case the massacring lord (pope) is outright stated to be necessary at the end with pushback looking weak if it's even present (weak pushback and organizational complicity strengthens the implications). At least the style acknowledges the crimes, at least implicitly? Not whitewashing, just memory hole.

Cues crucially acknowledge 'good' people sharing culpability for past truly tragic and impossible to totally prevent harms (especially after all guilty parties died). So not only do you have to accept the bad stuff but it's allies fault so they feel locked in.

Don't get me wrong, other countries share the tropes and have similar issues. At different rates.

For a western example... I guess Kill Bill is arguable. Maybe a good martial arts example too. Bad stuff happened but Bill's at peace with it and his thesis on being a good superman got proven within the film. Best not think about the films deeply for a lot of reasons.

America's moral compromises show most with villains who've got some point, and defeating the villain and small or zero change is the way. Just ponder the mistaken person or group's points and move on. That goes from Nazi Superscience to "Copaganda". This is more a cowboy-like post-settler-colonial trend, it'll vary more in Europe.

This style fits with whitewashing history or simplifying good and evil slightly more than the Villain Wins style of implicit cues and guilt sharing.

The throughline is tropes of subtle or blatant pro-establishment bias. Which irks me.

Neither style is only those countries, they're in both and everywhere, and I'm simplifying trends, and not saying there isn't art in the trends above, or you're in the wrong for liking anything, or these kind of stories can't be great. And I tried to minimize politics in the above, but any history and social issue is politics so... draw your own conclusions, like what you like.

Either way if you didn't grow up with it, it can be uncomfortable: The villain who wins but it's okay is as if not more jarring than villain who's defeated and a minor compromise absolves you of shame.

So yeah when I recognized this was one of those I pretty much just sped read for the art. Bad Guy Wins As It Should Be is hard for me to swallow as minority in my country. Love and peace ya'll. What a ride.
 
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