While I understand that she played a major role in her son becoming the way he is, I can’t bring myself to hate her. When you’re in the deepest depths of despair, you’ll grab onto any hope you can get. That’s why cults are so dangerous, they target people who desperately need someone to guide them. Indoctrination is scary. I’m glad she got out and I hope she does her best to mend the mistakes she’s made; I don’t want her to give up on her son. I’m rooting for her!
The reason I can’t feel bad about her is less about the fact that she drove her son to this, and more about why she did it. It wasn’t out of concern but her desperation for some superior academic results from him. That’s the biggest reason why I despise her. I could understand, as you’ve said, if it was out of worry and desire for his well-being. However, she just couldn’t accept that he wasn’t a genius like her.
Also, yeah, cults are very scary. I watched a video that said that it can take only few days to fully brainwash a well functioning adult.
The war over this manga is proof that there is a problem with severe chronically online behavior. The fact that people can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality. The manga is LITERALLY about eating the rich and killing your suppressors. Why is it that when they’re a different species instead of human people are suddenly mad? Xenophobia? My brother in Christ they are neither humans or original inhabitants of earth, it’d be colonialism if anything. Tell me you didn’t pass high school English without telling me you didn’t pass high school English. If you don’t like, don’t read, end of story.
people can like the manga and also see that it contains themes from real life. Not every manga has to be about rainbow and sunshine. Some can actually reference things that happened in the real world most do. It’s not about separating real life from fiction. It’s about recognizing when fiction represents real life
If you wanna believe this manga is taking no reference from real life themes and the ideas are just completely of the authors imagination go ahead. It’s up to interpretation but because it’s up to interpretation, there’s no real way to interpret it. Don’t be mad at people for interpreting it in a different way that you do. that’s like lesson number one when it comes to media literacy.
AGAIN WOOOOO