Sensei, Kurokami ni Natte mo Kidzuite Kureru? - Vol. 1 Ch. 7

[MangaDex]

 

[Weetch]

I just finished chapter 6, chapters be coming out fast , thanks paul bunyan trophy

 

[Laserman]

@ThePaulBunyanTrophy keep them coming.

 

[ThePaulBunyanTrophy]

I'll finish volume 1 today (2 more chapters and finishes this mini-arc). Then I'll do Skip to Loafer and a few others and finish up volume 2.

 

[LysandersTreason]

i have an irrational (or maybe rational) hatred of people like that.

Would administrators really do a dogeza in the hallways in Japan?

 

[AfterMidnightMoon]

Can't have enough of this shit. Get smacked.

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

@LysandersTreason Dunno. My instinct says, a sufficiently obnoxious big shot could make it happen . . . but that would represent a failure of etiquette on their part too, make them look bad for being obnoxious, so it wouldn't usually happen, the retribution would be a bit subtler. On the other hand, how to put this . . . we're used to seeing manga about basically middle to high class schools and areas. This is pretty clearly a working class school, maybe in a more working class town, so maybe even the big shots are a bit less smooth, the corruption a bit more in your face. But I'm speculating wildly.

I find it interesting to notice that our gorilla, while normally all bark and not actually into violence, does have the strength to go with that brawn you see. He just offhand shoved that jerk and he went flying, and it's not like the kid was small--he was pretty much adult size. That dude would make a great rugby player. Might be part of why he's normally pretty careful--knows he could mess someone up by accident.

 

[ThePaulBunyanTrophy]

@LysandersTreason

You have to remember that this incident is not in the manga because it's common or accepted but for a specific purpose, to let the readers know the origins of Hogorilla's trauma and to make the father and son look bad. So it's supposed to be upsetting and unusual. But I think the mangaka laid it out really well. If you read what the father is saying, he's choosing his words very well. He mentions his son's possible misdeed without admitting to it so that he can appear reasonable (because of course his son is a little shit and he did something wrong) and follows up with another very reasonable statement. Then he smoothly switches over to speculation and thinly veiled threat (about the story spreading and growing bigger). Lastly, he concludes very confidently and directly on how it should be resolved. And even though he's saying something that's unreasonable, he's built it up to that climax using reasonable steps and slowly escalates it until what is actually outrageous and insulting seems a proper and appropriate conclusion. So it's not like he just stormed in and said, "My son got hurt, fuck you, dogeza now!" Instead, he very smoothly led the talk until the conclusion reached what he wanted in the first place. That's politician for you.

Whether it happens in Japan is beside the point because it's being used to tell a story and provide a background.

@Purplelibraryguy

Our Hogorilla is actually 190cm (6' 2"). It's in one of the omake that I didn't translate. Pretty big dude, especially in Japan. He can jump up to his feet from a supine position so he's pretty athletic and strong too. Smashing a little high school dude like that would be no problem. Kosugi is about 5' 1".

https://imgur.com/a/i2yIPAv

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

@ThePaulBunyanTrophy All fair enough, although I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's irrelevant whether it could happen; verisimilitude matters. If nobody would ever ever do that, it matters less how smoothly he gets to the conclusion. So for instance, in Canada it doesn't matter how flippin' smooth some city councillor was, if he asked some school principal to prostrate himself everyone present would be like "What the fuck is with this moron?!" it would hit the media and his re-election would be in doubt. If it really blew up he'd have to resign. Humiliation and retribution are done in different ways here, probably ways involving a ton of paperwork and onerous assessments and endangerment of grants. So if someone did that in a Canadian story you'd be like 'What is this? Makes no sense". Clearly it's not as ridiculous in Japan, but just how much less ridiculous has some relevance I think.

It's not just the height; he's built big. But what's becoming increasingly clear is that all that mass is neither fat nor flab.

 

[miner49er]

I highly doubt Japanese school girls say things like “bitch be playin”.

 

[cksn]

whether this is plausible for japan or not, this is still massively more reasonable than how i suppose things would go in the US. we're so retarded about egalitarianism and violence that once teacher hit him, even to imply the kid had done anything wrong too would be victim blaming. the parent wouldn't have to acknowledge it at all. and that's even if they're white. if they're black, forget about it, you're asking for another national sperg out.

there's so much wrong with our culture you might as well just start over from scratch