The World Is Mine - Vol. 14 Ch. 163 - The World is Mine
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Boy ... Wtf did I just read?
Good ending tho in my opinion. In fact, it's the best way to end it
Good ending tho in my opinion. In fact, it's the best way to end it
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A celebration of violence to the end! Violence is omnipresent and its celebration is also to be thankful for life itself. Beside the cartoon-politics, this is a good story and the mangaka is a great story-teller. These cartoon-politics do not at all match the very grimy and gritty violence of Toshi-mon. I don't mean that as a bad thing, I think it's easily applicable today, where political circus advertised on social media drowns out anything really poltical just as all circus drowns out anything generally real. But then real violence in Palestine or Ukraine has sparked up and the Real (Lacan) reimposes itself on delusion. The growth of Higumadon turns nuclear non-proliferation activists into mad-hatters calling for the bomb! It reminded me of those supposing by that "Trump" would start "world war three" later calling for the worst imaginable atrocities against Russians. This imposition (of the Real) by Higumadon on the activists is mirrored in Toshi-mon for the reader. One page is Maria and Mon lovey-dovey in the bathroom (most of the page being the white space of bathroom walls), the next is the bloody carcass of a child and mother slumped under a schizo (most of the page being black blood, black clothes, and Toshi's black hair). This is done throughout the series (mostly mild), but I think it's done best in the early changes in sequence from the cartoon-political and other characters of mockery being drawn without lightly and without much detail, to the high-thrill scenes of Toshi-mon thick with ink and filth.
What isn't cartooned is the bomb. The bomb is the beginning of the current Japanese constitution, the basis for Japanese codeified law. Any critique of civil life in Japan, or of those who enjoy it, will contend with the bomb. The bomb in this story is pregiven (everyone knows what it is), whereas the sequences of "politics" hold the reader's hand. The bomb is universal, even in a Europe unaffected by Higumadon, while "politics" only exists in the sequences of dialogue between politicians. That the Americans had noticed Toshi-mon and their opinion of Japan existed was something that had to be said far too often.
Higumadon's expansion in the ocean was genius. It makes its threat (that it always had) finally obvious to the reader and makes the Author's statement of nuclear bombs as god come together. The author failed to make any meaning of Higumadon's and Toshi-mon's encounters. They just intercept, a performance of Mon is shown (the battle) ------ scratch that I have to think about Higumadon as Mon's teddy bear which the author clearly stated was "hope" or some bullshit in the last volume.
Anyway, I liked it.
What isn't cartooned is the bomb. The bomb is the beginning of the current Japanese constitution, the basis for Japanese codeified law. Any critique of civil life in Japan, or of those who enjoy it, will contend with the bomb. The bomb in this story is pregiven (everyone knows what it is), whereas the sequences of "politics" hold the reader's hand. The bomb is universal, even in a Europe unaffected by Higumadon, while "politics" only exists in the sequences of dialogue between politicians. That the Americans had noticed Toshi-mon and their opinion of Japan existed was something that had to be said far too often.
Higumadon's expansion in the ocean was genius. It makes its threat (that it always had) finally obvious to the reader and makes the Author's statement of nuclear bombs as god come together. The author failed to make any meaning of Higumadon's and Toshi-mon's encounters. They just intercept, a performance of Mon is shown (the battle) ------ scratch that I have to think about Higumadon as Mon's teddy bear which the author clearly stated was "hope" or some bullshit in the last volume.
Anyway, I liked it.
