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type_wildI'll never, ever forget the time someone tried to explain to me that "100% real manga" meant uncensored boobs and blod.
Hakata Tonkots Ramens would be the anime that introduces one of our main characters by sending him off on a quest of revenge after his sister was trafficed and gruesomely murdered. Oh yeah, and also he's a hitman. Like, this anime is about a baseball team of hitmen. There's... a lot of murder happening here. Drugs and rape and cybercrime and torture, sure why not
and then episode 11 ends with the prickly damaged guy announcing that he'd "stay with is friends in this city" rather than living the high life as an international man of murder.
It feels like our love of violence as entertainment has somehow come full circle. This is an anime about people who murder others for a living. All of them do it in cold blood, and at least one of them does it because he likes killing he wants to kill someone already and this guy is the comic relief rival. In this anime, the act of taking another person's life is completely robbed of both consequence and content. By all logic, this entire cast should be either extremely dysfunctional, or completely emotionally stumped. Yet what we got was show that is little more than your average shounen about learning to love the nakama, where killing some guys who happened to pick a fight with you is just a funny detail and where the true lesson we learned was the importance of friendship, effort and victory.
Hakata Tonkots Ramens would be the anime that introduces one of our main characters by sending him off on a quest of revenge after his sister was trafficed and gruesomely murdered. Oh yeah, and also he's a hitman. Like, this anime is about a baseball team of hitmen. There's... a lot of murder happening here. Drugs and rape and cybercrime and torture, sure why not
and then episode 11 ends with the prickly damaged guy announcing that he'd "stay with is friends in this city" rather than living the high life as an international man of murder.
It feels like our love of violence as entertainment has somehow come full circle. This is an anime about people who murder others for a living. All of them do it in cold blood, and at least one of them does it because he likes killing he wants to kill someone already and this guy is the comic relief rival. In this anime, the act of taking another person's life is completely robbed of both consequence and content. By all logic, this entire cast should be either extremely dysfunctional, or completely emotionally stumped. Yet what we got was show that is little more than your average shounen about learning to love the nakama, where killing some guys who happened to pick a fight with you is just a funny detail and where the true lesson we learned was the importance of friendship, effort and victory.
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