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One thing im wondering in gangsta is how are the kids not in school most of the time? Like ik home schooling exists but not all these kids are going to be homeschool

I'll be honest, I don't think most manga or anime have a good take on kids and education in general. Kids are there or exist in these series because often anime only has teens to young adults as protagonists, but they're written by adults so???

I think in Gangsta we get glimpses of what education is like for the very rich and the very poor. Rich kids like Loretta and kid Worick get proper education through homeschooling and private tutelage. On the other hand, kid Nic didn't know how to write his own name until he was 12 or so, take a few years. He only learned to read and write bc some rich kid got into his blond head this mercenary boy could be his friend and took it upon himself to tutor him. Doug, however, wasn't so lucky as he even confesses to adult Nic that he didn't have any good education, let alone knowing sign language. Maybe the guild has some basic school programs, as military establishments often come with them. As for the rest of the kids who are in the middle, it's not clear to me where or how they get any education. There's been some philanthropic institutions in the past, like the orphanage Delico and Yang (and Erica) grew up in, but that got burned to the ground. It was never touched upon what happened after that, even though we see some kids run into adult Delico and get freaked by his apparent tags. There may be schools at the outskirts of the city, maybe? Other options are good adults that take pity on you, like Theo possibly teaching Nina through apprenticeship. Maybe a lot of kids are simply illiterate.

We could find out more about kids and schooling if Heather gets some manga time.

(Unrelated but one critique of Midsommar is the lack of children in the picture, because children play a great role in these cults. The role of kids is less defined in a world like Gangsta: you need them bc the circle of life, but it is ultimately a manga about adults.)

With regards to previous asks, idk I think world building isn't where Gangsta shines. That is to say, global strokes. Kohske is a master in localized world building tho, such as character characterization, character chemistry etc.

I never was a big fan of the power levels: we didn't need different kinds of superhumans along twilights, as the manga already was the "supernatural" route. I suppose the drama aspect of Gangsta is what interests me. Even though the fight scenes are pretty cool, the plot or main events would remain the same if you stripped many characters of their abilities, so maybe these abilities weren't needed in the first place.

(there are many story decisions Kohske took that I don't understand and seem surprising considering her shorter works, such as not having a female character as the main character of the trio, but Gangsta is her first long work, and there's always mistakes and things to learn when changing your creative format. Not Kohske's fault her debut manga made it big, as to get an anime, unless you're trash waifu of the season, you need to be already above average in the respective genre as a manga. I also suspect she may have thought no one would read a manga that doesn't have a male lead, and Worick being the main lead for this manga made his character less enjoyable to me even though (1) he's a slutty man and I find slutty men amusing and (2) Kohske did quite some innovative decisions with regards to the manwhore and lover-boy tropes the intersections of which he represents. I will always ask how it would have been had Alex been the main lead. And if the woman couldn't have been the lead, I'd take Nic over Worick anytime, but unfortunately I can see how Nic doesn't work well in manga format; he would have slayed had Gangsta been a novel.)

ily alex but we gotta get you a blk girl wig n some brown contacts PLEASE

Hakujaden (The Tale of the White Serpent), 1950

Legend of the White Serpent (1958)

白蛇伝 / Hakujaden (The Tale of the White Serpent)

72 in x of animated feature film history Release: Oct. 22nd, 1958 Country: Japan Director: Taiji Yabushita, Kazuhiko Okabe

“The Tale of the White Serpent is the first color anime feature film. It was one of the first three anime films to be released in America, under the title Panda and the Magic Serpent, premiering in 1961. It is also known variously as Legend of the White Snake, The Great White Snake, and The White Snake Enchantress.

Xu-Xian, a young boy, once owned a pet snake in until his parents forced him to give her up. Years pass, and during a violent storm, the snake magically transforms into the beautiful princess Bai-Niang, accompanied by her fish spirit friend, Xiao Chin. Bai-Niang finds Xu-Xian, but the lovers are separated by a local monk, Fa-Hai, who believes that Bai-Niang is an evil spirit. Xu-Xian’s two panda pets, Panda and Mimi, try to find Xu-Xian. In the end, Bai-Niang gives up her magical powers and remains in human form to prove that her love for Xu-Xian is genuine.

The film is essentially an adaptation of the Song Dynasty Chinese folktale ‘Legend of the White Snake’ (白蛇傳). Shin Uehara adapted the folktale and kept the Chinese-style characters and names. The decision of a Chinese story being used as the concept blueprint came from Toei president Hiroshi Ōkawa, who wanted to strike a tone of reconciliation with the Asian neighbors. Two years earlier, a live-action version of the story had been well-received in Hong Kong, making an animated version a safe bet for success.

Given the point in time, the film pushed Japanese animation technology to the limit. The film was a large scale major project, involving a total of 13,590 staff; surprisingly, it only took eight months to finish. The film received honors at the Venice Children’s Film Festival in Italy in 1959. It was a disappointment upon later release in America.

Rintaro, who would later go on to become a well known and respected director of Japanese animation, had his first job in the animation industry (at age 17) as an in-between animator on this film.”

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I mean, considering Corte had no pokerface whatsoever, I hardly think Rudo needed to use any knowledge about poison to deduct that he was going to be poisoned by Finis' maid.

But for real, in my opinion, this is one of the best scenes in this entire anime. It is tense -- Rudo is threatening, at least in the confines of this tent and this scene, and I like that Corte was willing to try to kill him to save her charge, perhaps even willing to be caught out and die afterwards. Rudo is not the end all antagonist of this series, really -- the King would still be alive and would search for his son's assassin.

... He would also probably see to it that Finis is hunted to the ends of the earth, just as Rudo would have, had Finis' plan to escape with Henry been successful. Speaking of that, why didn't they leave together that night when Corte gave them her blessing, instead of wait until the early morning, which allowed Rudo to capture Henry and intercept Finis? The more you think about this plan of theirs, the less sense it makes... but that goes for, quite honestly, everything about this series.

So I'll just take the W of this isolated Assassination Uno Reverse Card scene on its own.

Maybe let's keep it down, considering the actual crown prince is travelling with all of you and might not like to hear that his army is idolizing a fellow knight. Might be some sort of consequences were he to hear this celebration. Maybe. Haha.

The thing about Rin is that despite her village being razed to the ground and everyone she knew being massacred by the Capital Army, she actually seemingly cannot even understand.