#makoto has done THREE WHOLE WAR CRIMES

[ultimateplaylistmaker]

Makoto's a war criminal is being an argument, and there's nothing I love more then being pedantic, so lets see what Geneva Conventions be argued as broken

For the sake of it I'm going to consider despair vs FF as something akin to a civil war, thus capturing the remnants would be prisoners of war

Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949.

Article 13 - Humane treatment of prisoners

Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated. Any unlawful act or omission by the Detaining Power causing death or seriously endangering the health of a prisoner of war in its custody is prohibited, and will be regarded as a serious breach of the present Convention. In particular, no prisoner of war may be subjected to physical mutilation or to medical or scientific experiments of any kind which are not justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the prisoner concerned and carried out in his interest.

Well those in the Neo World program DEFINITELY were seriously endangered. While you could argue the experimental treatment was done in the interest of the remnants, the fact it went so badly and was illegally administered against the will of Future Foundation definitely breaks this.

Article 22 - Places and conditions of internment

Prisoners of war may be interned only in premises located on land and affording every guarantee of hygiene and healthfulness. Except in particular cases which are justified by the interest of the prisoners themselves, they shall not be interned in penitentiaries. Prisoners of war interned in unhealthy areas, or where the climate is injurious for them, shall be removed as soon as possible to a more favourable climate.

Depending on how safe Jabberwock island is, Makoto may be in violation of this. As a cluster of small artificial islands all of which have been abandoned, how safe is it? Is it at risk of hurricane or giant tropical storms? What are the facilities there? If they're completely on their own can it really be stated they have every guarantee of Hygiene and Healthfulness?

Article 55 - Medical supervision

The fitness of prisoners of war for work shall be periodically verified by medical examinations at least once a month. The examinations shall have particular regard to the nature of the work which prisoners of war are required to do.

Sorry Makoto, Mikan doesn't count I'm pretty sure.

That's at least three war crimes and I'm sure you could find more if you looked harder then I did, but even with the most CHARITABLE reading possible, the Neo World Program is 100% against article 13, he's a war criminal

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#goodbye despair #trigger happy havoc #musings from the music manager #makoto naegi #makoto has done THREE WHOLE WAR CRIMES #good for him

[celestie0]

please share your thoughts on vinland saga. what is your favorite character, scene...? what is something you learnt through it?

omgogmogmgmggogm ty for this ask anon also so sorry it took me a while to get around to but i appreciate it i loooove vinland saga sm n i’d love to talk more ab it 😭🫶🏼💕 n if you’ve seen the show too i’d love to know ur answers to those questions as well aaa :””)

my favorite character for suuurrree is thorfinn :”) he is my sweet summer child, the apple of my eye, the kindest of all, my son, my heart, my treasure, my love, i adore him sm there are times where i think of him n i just start tearing up out of nowhere. imma sound so fkn insane when i say this but i really truly believe he exists in my hearrrtttt 😭💕 like he has to, there’s no way these feeligns of adoration i have for him have not manifested on some physical realm i just love him sosososooso much sobs he is my favorite fictional character of all time n i wish i could smooch makoto yukimura very gingerly on the cheek for bringing such a beautifully well written character to life. his determination to become a better person, live true to his ideals, and create safe haven for others is srs so inspirational to me i love him sm

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i would literally commit war crimes for him LMFAO (even tho that’s the opposite of what he would want anyone to do for him haha)

as for what i’ve learned n my fave scene(s) i will add a keep reading bc spoilers and also it’s gonna be really fuckin long 💀

what have i learned from vinland saga? dear god, so much. i could talk about this show for hours, HOURS, and i have before!! it is just that dense in philosophy n had my head spinning from all the reflections

of course, there is the infamous line in the show ‘i have no enemies’, which i think can mean a lot of different things to different people, in thorfinn’s case it is the line that allows him to adopt a life of tranquility n pacifism. i think for me, this line taught me to assume the best in people, and once i started doing that i think i learned how peaceful n meaningful life can be. for example, if i interact with a rude person or am fighting with someone i care about, and i am affected emotionally by it, i might think of that lesson from the show and i feel free in knowing that i have no one who i desire to hurt or retaliate against or even harbor negative feelings towards in my head(the saying comes to mind to think or speak negatively about others is to poison yourself) as someone w a lot of fuckin anxiety it’s very liberating to think that way, and i think that’s the biggest lesson i’ve learned from the show (among many, many, many others. i think another big lesson is obviously the subject of forgiveness, both in others and in oneself, but this post will end up being too long if i go into depth of all the things i’ve thought ab while watching vinland saga)

as for my fave scenes, i’ll try to just pick three 😭😭😭

1. end of the prologue. the scene when askleadd dies was so beautifully done. the moment where in his final moments, he urges thorfinn to rethink his life and what he wants from it, and to follow in his father’s footsteps. askeladd was such a cruel, violent, and objectively horrible person n was the cause of thorfinn’s journey of hatred in the first place, and yet in his final moments somehow his words to thorfinn did not feel out of character. that was the moment where i realized wow, this author knows what tf he’s doing and is truly so talented. to have a character’s traits sneak up on you like that, built so subtly throughout the show, so that the payoff feels so real and fitting and not forced, driving the direction of the story in the way we had been hoping for the whole time. fuuuckckf. also, quick mention of the scene where thorifnn finally lets go of his dagger n all the scenes from season one flash by on the metal. fuck. i cry EVERY. TIME.

2. i mean it’s a given, but the scene when thorfinn finally understands his father’s words and admits to a circle of bloodlust vikings that they are not his enemies, and that he has no enemies. what a wonderful full circle moment for his character arc, i get chills just thinking about it

3. this one may be a bit more random lol, but the episode that will forever stick in my memory is gardar’s backstory episode. fuck i could writr a ten page essay about this one twenty minute episode ALONE, but i’ll just pick out the one scene that just kills me. the scene where gardar helplessly watches himself in the past, as he leaves arnheid & hjalti, and there’s nothing he can do to stop himself. fucking hell. if there’s any scene that i think could perfectly show what a feeling of regret is like, that would be the scene, and what fucks me up so much about that scene is how he cannot even manage WORDS. he is a grown man, reduced to intelligible sounds because his pain is so profound and his guilt runs so deep that it is like he becomes all but a helpless child. just kill me, seriously. i had never cried so hard in my LIFE watching anything than in that episode. i sobbed so hard i had hiccups n my sleeves were covered in snot. but the ending, when he got to see his son again in the afterlife n he was the age that he wouldve been if he was still alive :”) my god. yukimura nails anything that has to do with father son dynamics, im sure its because he has a few boys of his own, and his love for his children is so evident in his writing. but also, the fact that he was able to make me feel SO MUCH for a character we hardly knew anything of, and also to use a character that the audience is not very familiar with to tell a story that i think almost everyone on this planet could relate to in some capacity (things we want to change n wish we could go back to do so…) just what a genius genius creative decision like he is just such a wonderful writer i appreciate him so much 😭😭😭

god, all of s2 is honestly my favorite scene LMFAO. the whole entirety of it is a masterclass in story telling. imma just do a quick few more of my fave scene shoutouts tho 😭

thorfinn getting his ear sliced by fox, thorfinn calling einer his brother, thorfinn climbing his way out of valhalla, thorfinn telling arnheid about vinland before she passed away, snake revealing the truth behind ketil’s name, thorfinn reuniting with his mother again. god just all of it. i swear, just all of it.

GAT DAYUM THIS IS LONG but idgaf i’d talk about this show until i draw my last breath lmfaooo thank u anon for this ask im clearly insane 🤣🤣🤣 ur probs like im never sending this bitch an ask ever again LMFAO just joking but srs i appreciate it i had a lot of fun answering :””) i just love this show so much

#i am clearly unwell over this show #the fact i wrote this much n could write literally HEAPS more #this show is a masterpiece #i will never shut up about that #vinland saga #thorfinn #einar #askeladd #anime #manga #anime review #anime recommendation #manga recommendation #manga review #asks #anon

[thestarshiphope]

//I don’t mean to interrupt this plot line, but I just had something I wanted to share with you all.

//If I had to pick a favorite DR entry, it would easily be Danganronpa 2. Sure, there’s a lot about the game that I still consider poor, problematic, or just don’t care for, but that’s vastly outweighed by what the game does right. I love (most of) the cast and I really enjoyed how much more challenging, if a little out there, the trials were. But I think why I loved the game has a lot to do with the ending.

//It takes everything that was great about the first game’s ending and really expands on it. We only got a hint of what was to come for Makoto and company, but here we actually see the results. That the world is indeed in ruins and that the group responsible, Ultimate Despair, was right in front of us the whole time.

//With the cast, you wouldn’t really expect it at first. I had a strong suspicion the game took place in a virtual reality, but this twist shocked the hell out of me because of how crazy it was and yet how plausible it was. Little hints from the characters both in the game proper and the FTEs shine light at the darker aspects to their characters: Kazuichi and his father, Ibuki and her desire to follow her own path, Mikan obviously recalling who she was, Fuyuhiko and Natsumi, even Hajime’s obsessive desire to have a talent and meaning to his life.

//I loved that twist, but what I honestly loved more was how the game actually subverted expectations regarding how they’d solve the situation. When faced with the sadistic choices of forgetting everything and Hajime ceasing to exist vs. surviving but with AI Junko taking over their friends’ bodies, what happens to Hajime? He shuts down. He doesn’t have the will to sacrifice himself to save mankind. He’s not that kind of hero, he’s just a regular person.

//And the one to draw him out of that was Chiaki, the girl who’d been supporting him since the beginning. Someone who, despite an early revelation, he’d always seen as a living person. And her words of encouragement aren’t to sacrifice himself for the greater good, but to do it for himself, be better than who he was, and create his own future. That she’ll always be supporting him and that, even if she’s gone and they do forget, whatever happens from then on will never be meaningless.

//I’m honestly not a fan of the ‘Redemption equals death’ trope. It has a horrible undertone to it that says “you will never be able to make up for what you’ve done, so your only option is to die.” Danganronpa 2 said “it doesn’t matter who you were or what you did, you can always move forward and be a better person.” And in the end, they get rewarded with a new chance at life. That, to me, is a much more meaningful representation of hope than even the first game. No matter what’s happened to you before, you can make your own future. 

//But at the same time, it also shows just how much Makoto deserved the title of Ultimate Hope. He took this group of genocidal psychopaths, responsible for terrorism, coups, wars, mass murder, destruction, and countless other crimes against humanity, and decided- against the wishes of the organization he was working for- that they deserved a second chance.

//And this is, yet again, why DR3 pissed me off so much. I wasn’t against Chiaki being a real person or seeing Class 77-B awake at the end. What I was against was the brainwashing video: not only was it a cheap and lazy way of making them Ultimate Despair, it also really undermined the strong and meaningful message DR2 had to say. It took away that aspect of personal responsibility and made their mission for atonement significantly weaker. And not only that, but it was all because of a character we had no idea even existed until then, yet we were still supposed to feel sorry for.

//Yes, three years later and I’m still complaining about it.

//Not that it really matters. DR2′s message remains a very powerful, meaningful one for me, one that says that a quest for redemption can earn you another chance at life, and that’s why I still love it. It’s also the game that introduced Mikan, so that’s definitely a reason too : P

#mod talks #Starship Hope #mod rambles #danganronpa 2

[cameronbrownfmp]

Yakuza Research

“It’s a country renowned for walking to the beat of its own drum, a cultural oddity in some respects but with a society that goes to great pains and being polite, civilised, clean and different to customs. Walking around almost any city you won’t find trash on the ground and you won’t need to fear being harassed or being beaten up for the way you look or for the few dollars in your pocket. Japan is on the whole smart, convenient and safe but then it also has some of the most feared and formidable gangsters on the planet.”

The name Yakuza is a generic term given to multiple groups of gangs in Japan, sometimes the people that become a part of this lifestyle call themselves Goduku, which means wicked or extreme paths.

The Yakuza goes back to the 17th century call themselves ninkyō dantai, which means a chivalrous organisation, however, the media and police don’t see it this way and instead refer to them as bōryokudan, which means violent group.

“In a paper called history of the Yakuza from 2014, it’s written that in Japan there are some where between two and three thousand gangs that we might call Yakuza”

These gangs belong to a number of conglomerates and might be thought of as crime families.

“According to historians some of the Yakuza like romanticize their beginnings, comparing themselves to ancient master samurai known as Ronin, although others say the roots of Yakuza come from gangs that defended villages from marauding Ronin. Its commonly thought that most of these past gangsters were merely men that peddled sketchy goods and ran gambling outfits as the word Yakuza is actually related to gambling, they do have codes of conduct though, the past and rituals associated with the past is important to Yakuza in fact some scholars tell us that Yakuza have an unwavering moral code that they are “makoto” or heroes, driven by money but also a will to do good. In that sense, we might call them Moral Gangsters or sometimes Ethical Hitmen. That’s one side of the tale though, and many of the Japanese public don’t see it that way.”

“One professor that has studied Yakuza

tells us, “Like the Mafia in Italy, gang traditions that are still influential today in Japan had their origins within the feudal structure of the preindustrial society”. Outlaws and bandits emerged, but so did stories of Robin Hood-type Yakuza. This seems to be a common theme in most cultures – the honourable criminal fighting oppression. We are told in Japan this was, and still is, a common thread – that the gangsters are neo Samurai that have basically put down their robe and donned a business suit. The sword is now a gun, but the principle is the same. But if you think dealing in prostitution, extortion, drug trafficking, smuggling, gambling, blackmail and other shady businesses is honourable, well, that’s up for debate. Are these modern-day Samurai really robbing from the rich and giving back to the poor though?”

The big four organisations in the Yakuza are the “Yamaguchi-gumi”, the largest of them all and now split in

to two, the “Sumiyoshi-kai”, the “Inagawa-kai” and the “Aizu Kotetsu-Kai” which is the oldest group. These groups are also well known by the Japanese people as they have large headquarters, known by the police and everyone else. They work very similarly to a normal corporation, however, most of their work is of a criminal nature.

Like all Yakuza there is a hierarchy, with the top being the boss “Oyabun” and his family the gang members known as “Kobun”. They all exist within their hierarchy, having both older and younger members. Bellow the Oyabun there is a senior adviser and below him is the chief, and bellow them are the smaller gangs associated with the family, and these gangs have their own bosses, “Shatei gashira” this is very similar to the Italian mafia.

It’s thought that within the Yamaguchi-gumi there are around 500 separate Yakuza groups. On top of this, the Yamaguchi-gumi is said to be the richest criminal family in the world by a long way, with their estimated yearly net revenue being around $80 billion. The group which is around less than half of the Yakuza members are involved with many criminal activities. Most of their activities involve drug trafficking, pornography, invest and manipulate the stock market, construction, gambling and weapon trafficking, and extort money. The group started as a labour union for dockworkers in the city of Kobe around the early 1900s, by their founder Mr. Harukichi Yamaguchi, but nowadays the boss is Kenichi Shinoda. Shinoda has been jailed for murder, been involved in Yakuza wars, and is seen as businessman, for having expanded the Yakuza during his time. He believes that despite the murders that occur, the Yakuza is honourable. He has even stated how the Yakuza have helped the public, mainly after the events of the Second World War and also after natural disasters. This may be as to why the Japanese put up with these conspicuous business men.

After the Kobe earthquake that took place in 1995, around one million Japanese people became homeless, due to the earthquake. The Yamaguchi-gumi and then all four of the main crime syndicates helped out the Japanese people gathered supplies from all around the country, and gave them to the people. Another time in which the Yakuza helped out after an incident is when a tsunami struck in 2011, by offering housing and food supplies. One journalist wrote, “I’ll remain endlessly fascinated by the charity of the yakuza when natural disasters strike. It’s such an idiosyncratic, paradoxical thing for a group of criminal syndicates to engage in.”

The Yakuza have their own rules for their members, and if you break them there are two main penalties that can be received. One of these is death, whilst the other is expulsion from the group, with no way back into the world of the Yakuza. Another minor penalty is that they may have a finger cut off, just above the joint, this is called yubitsume. The member who breaks the rules has to cut of the finger himself with a knife called a tanto. The finger is then wrapped up and handed to the boss. This has occurred to a lot of members, many ex-members have gone to search for a prosthetic finger afterwards. This has shown just how strict the Yakuza are with their members, with their inviolable laws, which is unlike most other criminal organisations who may be more chaotic.

In 2011 the Yamaguchi-gumi made it illegal for the Yakuza to sell or use drugs, who have their own official website. Logos and offices. The Yakuza are trying hard not to commit murder of themselves or the public, however, it does still occur. The group are comparable to that of the triads in Hong Kong, in that a blind eye is turned to illegal activity, so long as no murders occur.

Vice magazine had a journalist interact with the Yakuza, and according to the journalist, they like fine food, women and exquisite tattoos.

The Yakuza see themselves as upstanding gentlemen, however, the public sees otherwise. Vice magazine stated that “Many believe them to be a stain on the proud legacy of Japanese morals and decency”, “People don’t want to talk about the Yakuza or acknowledge their existence.”

When it comes to violence the Yakuza state that they try to prevent it, rather than starting it, and that the Yakuza keep everyone in line and that they can stop chaos. One Yakuza member said that they like to help the young, with a form of tough love, and that if they step out of line they get into trouble. He believes that it is better than ending up in jail.

When it comes to tattoos, you don’t have to get one if you’re in the Yakuza, or you might prefer to get the name of your boss, however, some members go for body tattoos. You can just get the outlines done, which means that your journey is just starting. The koi fish tattoo symbolises strength and courage, especially in darker times, this comes from a myth that a koi fish swam up rapids in the Yellow River in China and turned into a dragon. The samurai is another one of the more common tattoos, as well as these flowers: a chrysanthemum, a lotus or a peony, this means longevity, growth and wealth. The Foo dog tattoos means protection, water symbolises change. A blue dragon means gentle and forgiving, whilst a black dragon is wise, and a tattoo of a severed head is threat to anyone that stands up to them. The tattoos should always be kept hidden as well as a former boss was arrested in Thailand, as someone photographed his tattoos and uploaded them online, he was also recognised for having a severed finger missing. As it turned out the former 72 year old boss was wanted in Japan for having a connection with a murder.

(2018), The Infographics Show, The Japanese Yakuza – Most Dangerous & Powerful Gangs In The World, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFH6q1hJMfo], (Accessed 16th March)

INDEPENDENT, Jake Adelstein, (2011), Mobsters on a mission: How Japan’s mafia launched an aid effort,[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/mobsters-on-a-mission-how-japans-mafia-launched-an-aid-effort-2264031.html%3famp], (Accessed: 16th March 2021)