Lmao, for several of the previous chapters we have had a reader complaining that the author wouldn't dare to kill off a character on screen, and now we have another complaining because he did. (not even in an especially gory fashion either as he pretty much disintegrated into a puddle)
It has some history from Sengoku era Japan. Ishikawa Goemon was something of a Robin Hood like figure in Japanese history who was boiled alive publicly by Totoyomi Hideyoshi. https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Ishikawa_Goemon
No, they do not use water, they use oil to boil
Nah, they are not boiling, they are deep frying him till it’s burnt
Also murder. He tried to murder Goro. We spent several chapters on that arc.
Dude he got boiled alive. Like come on don't tell me you don't see the dissonance. It's a slice of life romance, every chapter so far has been about some dumb shit like the 2 mains getting sick or meeting relatives, and all of the sudden we get to see a character (That is coded as a teen or young adult at most) get fucking executed in front of our main characters? What's gonna happen next? Are we gonna go back to grocery shopping? Are we gonna go back to caring about the little romance between the 2 mains?. That was a fucking horror show.
Sooo... did you just not read chapter 10, or what? Yes, most of the chapters are fluffy feel good romance, but there's been a pretty strong undertone of 'fuck around and find out' when it comes to what Kogane and family are capable of. This didn't come completely out of the blue.
I absolutely think this came out of nowhere, there is a difference between the characters taking something seriously and the tone of the work, the tone had been consistently light hearted so far. nothing even approached this chapter. This shit was tasteless, like something an edgy 14 year old may come up with.
This is not a history book, it's a manga. You know, a fictional story that can be as edgy as or soft as the author wants. You talk about this thing like it's a fucking documentary about real fox culture and not some basement dweller's hobby project. The story had maintained a very soft tone, the panel you just posted could be seen as a joke. Imagine if in the latest One Piece chapter Luffy fucking mass hanged the current group of baddies Nurenberg style, just like that, I think that people would find that a definite break with the tone that the story had maintained so far.You are free to dislike the developments of the story all you want, but pretending like the backwards nature of Fox and Tanuki society wasn't plot relevant early on is absolutely false. They don't have modern sensibilities regarding criminal behavior because they are a society removed from humankind in general, which is quite literally the entire plot of this manga.
You may also want to avoid opening a history book at any point if you find this minor display of primitive criminal justice too edgy or unrealistic. You might not believe it as barbaric as it seems, but executions were generally public spectacle throughout most of human history up until barely a century ago. People would often gather with their families to watch a person either get hanged, drawn and quartered, or worse.
Lol, are you really using One Piece as an example of a manga with a "positive tone?" One Piece, the manga with Slavery, Torture, Celestial Dragons, Kuma's messed up Backstory, Genocidal Buster Calls, murder, and death? If anything that would be the one manga where it would be thematically correct for Luffy to round up Blackbeard's whole crew and make them walk the plank with seastone lead shoes around their ankles if possible. Possibly not in character, but It would not affect the tone of the story at all.
