2012-06-12, 17:38 | Link #1121 | |
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...In some parts of Africa it is not unknown for children to be sacrificed to protect people from witchcraft, not pretty but it has been known to have happened in recent memory to me... I heard about it on the BBC. as a response to your response.. the story in question did not happen in a backward community but in a modern urban setting, the main connection is fear of the unknown. when people are truly afraid all kinds of nonsense can be justified I am not sure on the amount of human sacrifice that occurred in the past at Shinto Shrines or even if it ever did, (most probably though) The thing is the village elders used the plague to cover up the sacrifice as they would put it out that the victim just died of the plague. Why Aki and Yukariko would keep silent is a matter of power imbalance and fear of being isolated (if not killed) as well. The people who perpetrated this crime are those in power and there was little recourse to go anywhere else. This was post war Japan under American occupation after all, not the modern society in Japan now
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2012-06-12, 17:50 | Link #1122 |
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^ It can also happen in an urban areas, all you need is a charismatic leader, remember the Sarin gas attacks in the tokyo subway, such cults could just the same perform human sacrifice and if the leader is also wealthy/influential they might even have help from the local authorities.
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2012-06-12, 17:53 | Link #1123 |
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Simple, just because we have ipads, skyscrapers and planes, does mean we can't also have people that believe in old, barbaric religious (or otherwise) rituals and lunatics that make up their own.
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2012-06-12, 18:39 | Link #1124 | ||
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2012-06-12, 19:43 | Link #1125 |
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I'd say it goes even beyond simple cultures and right down the main thing that affects everybody to some degree; old-fashioned fear and paranoia.
When you're right in the middle of what feels like death itself, it can drive people to do pretty irrational things that they otherwise probably would not do (unless they're just that sick an individual). In this case, everyone around them was dying of a plague and it always gave off a feeling of, "Am I next?", really. As it hit closer to home (entire families having died), the paranoia and fear just become worse. I like to like this is sort of an isolated Black Plague-like scenario, which caused a HUGE amount of religious zealotry and paranoia throughout Europe, with many people imprisoned, tortured, and/or killed off as accused "witches" or "causes" of the plague in order to appease god to miraculously make the plague go away. Main difference being that this is just presumably isolated within the town and not around the whole country. Of course, it's also a common theme portrayed in post-apocalyptic-style scenarios where there's usually 1 person(s) who ends up snapping.
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2012-06-12, 20:44 | Link #1126 | |
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2012-06-12, 20:57 | Link #1127 | |
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I have seen this trope a lot in anime, even with teenage boys as old as 17, wait, even beyond teenage boys (I can think of at least one college age "man" with what most guys would consider a smokin' hot, live-in girlfriend), and even beyond. So, not being Japanese, it's hard to tell if this really is the way a lot of Japanese guys would act. And then there's the other guys that permeate anime, the complete perverts (the boob grabbers, the voyeurs, etc.). Are they really all that common in Japan? |
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2012-06-17, 13:52 | Link #1130 |
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lots happened in this episode but to really make sense of it I will have to wait for the subbed version.
Yukariko seems much nicer than in the manga though Spoiler for but...:
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2012-06-17, 17:44 | Link #1136 |
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There are really only three ways this story can end.
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The only other option would be not to end it, like it's a sitcom where Teiichi has to put up with that wacky Yuuko causing trouble all the time. At least they're not going there. |
2012-06-17, 18:07 | Link #1138 |
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Indeed. No matter how you spin it, it'll end in one of those three ways. But at the end of the day, I'm just a person who will always prefer option 1 and 2 to option 3; no matter how horribly written those endings may be. I hate seeing lovers get separated. But eh, I suppose there's still enough time for us to be proven wrong, but I doubt it.
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