that’s what I said. This time it actually is “a land without a people.Extremely huge reach lmao. For one thing it actually was an empty space for the Many Ears, they didn't need to forcefully make space with violence.
A: That was servitude, not slavery.Also, they weren't violently persecuted by demon society, but enslaved for their physical traits.
Are Natives exploited for some physical/cultural feature of their people?This puts the Many Ears much closer to a story like Liberia or American Indian reservations, which just like the many ears plot of land were deliberately assigned to barren low value places and the subject of attempted seizure if the subjugated group did anything good with it in spite of the government attempting to sabotage them.
Lots of people are naive. Most people at my old shul were naive. “Morally repugnant“ I mean… yes, but wow that’s strong wording.This is a good thing because if you were right here, it would be a morally repugnant thing for this author to do and I trust her instincts and values way too much based on everything else she's written to think she'd go there. Maybe if this arc was written further into the past but definitely not after this last year.
I mentioned not the Mogen Dovid, which is just a basic geometric figure that demonstrates the non-intercursability of a hexagram.Also the other general stuff is because Kabbala has been adopted as a collection of fun western fantasy tropes for Japanese authors, just like Gnosticism and the Ars Goetica. This is possibly due to the influence of the Megaten series, which basically combines all three into one very blasphemous cosmology. Where you find gnostic references you almost always see the Hebrew alphabet characters used basically entirely without meaning, for example the Xenosaga trilogy from the 00s. They do the same thing with the Star of David, you see that all over the place in Japanese western fantasy settings as a generic magic circle design, like with Castlevania, which is otherwise very Christian in its intended setting.
Proactive lesbian Gyari is the least realistic thing in a manga that takes place in the underworld, is populated by demons and full of magic.Unrelated: yay let's go lesbians. We've known Kuromu likes Gyari back since the end of the Evidol arc, she just thought a relationship where Gyari "won" her would kill the spark. This sort of peer non-competitive interaction is thus exactly what they need to get closer <3
Yes, actually. On two levels: one is the assumption that darker skinned peoples naturally had more resilience and stamina than Europeans, or at least they told themselves that to justify horrific acts. This line of thinking still exists to this day with the idea that black and latine people have increased pain tolerance. One of the weirder ways this manifested for American Indians specifically is that some in the eugenics movement looked at them as a source of good physical genes without too dark of a complexion and thus kidnapped children and stole them away for white families to "adopt". A group of white families in certain regions (mostly the Midwest far as I know) have at least one Indian ancestor to point to and they're not all lying like Elizabeth Warren. Many of them are instead pointing at these stolen and sexually exploited children.Are Natives exploited for some physical/cultural feature of their people?
She reminds me of SabnockDon't really like Gyari ever since she first appear, but i can still appreciate what she is doing for Kerori
That’s not “needed by the more powerful due to having skills they lack”.Yes, actually. On two levels: one is the assumption that darker skinned peoples naturally had more resilience and stamina than Europeans, or at least they told themselves that to justify horrific acts. This line of thinking still exists to this day with the idea that black and latine people have increased pain tolerance. One of the weirder ways this manifested for American Indians specifically is that some in the eugenics movement looked at them as a source of good physical genes without too dark of a complexion and thus kidnapped children and stole them away for white families to "adopt". A group of white families in certain regions (mostly the Midwest far as I know) have at least one Indian ancestor to point to and they're not all lying like Elizabeth Warren. Many of them are instead pointing at these stolen and sexually exploited children.
Two, they were simply not white and thus not seen as legally protected from abuse and exploitation like white citizens would supposedly be. This is mostly true for almost all of American history, crimes targeting non-white citizens, especially non-citizens, are almost never taken seriously or solved. It took until the 1980s for the schemes related to stolen children and the "Indian schools" used as clearinghouses for them to come to public attention.
Ending that particular tangent and thinking about that arc that just ended, I think it's pretty noteworthy that the antagonist group was called "border patrol". Considering how much of their actions are not patrolling any borders but instead doing internal secret police shit, they feel like a pretty "political" thing from the author.