Mairimashita! Iruma-kun - Ch. 373 - New Meaning

[Thrembs]

how is the many ears getting their shit together, and contributing to demon world's economy, is a threat to the demon world's peace to the point where Henry have to intervene?

if this is about the high and mighty not getting their musician or jeweler or whatnot, just hire them with bigger benefits. they are high and mighty, afterall. they can afford it.

The whole Many-Ears arc is the heaviest allegory/inspired by real life arc in the series.

It’s the most Jewish thing in this series, and that’s saying something. I lost count of the times I see kiddush cups, they use the aleph bet, he has a bar mitzvah celebration, a lot of terminology… I didn’t think there was a message there, just found it interesting that Nishi went with our stuff for inspiration instead of, well, anyone else? It’s probably the first time I’ve seen Japanese media have literally anything Jewish in it, and it’s just smeared all over this series.

The Many-Ears’ hisstory mirrors ours to a great degree.
We made it through the Middle Ages by being… literate, and able to do basic maths. Doing specialised work with specialised skills (accountants, lawyers and doctors, yo. It’s legit, and goes back to thousands of years of studying Talmud. Facts, figures, legal documents… Rabbis literally need to be able to read and write-up legal documents. That’s kind of the only thing you NEED a rabbi for, come to think of it…) pushed on the young by the old in order to survive in a world hostile to them.

However, while I liked the arc, and parts of it had allegorical elements that made me cry or shout “I called it!*”, I don’t agree with the implicit Zionism.
While this situation literally is “a people without a land and a land without a people”, that’s not the case in the real world.
The real world is a fucking mess and I don’t think any of it was a good idea.

That’s all preamble to a much shorter answer to your question: it’s allegory for antisemitism. That’s all.

Free Palestine, lach l’shalom. ✌️

*I said to my wife “if the next chapter has Iruma directly face this military police guy down without fear, and then the cop has to fuck off, I will wig out!”
Then he did.
The Alter Rebbe facing down a soviet cop with a gun pointed at him is a famous story.

There’s so much in this arc. I left comments on each chapter at first just joking about similarities, then pointing them out, then losing my mind. It’s WILD.

 

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