Gambling shows a scoundrel in adversity: it’s okay. This place is for people like you. But is this really the life you want?
For anime, my requirement is not very high, because I don’t need to specialize in painting style and character structure, I only care about the plot and the theme they want to express. However, in my opinion, the style and character setting of the comic suit its theme very well. It is unforgettable, whether it is the street faces of the gamblers or the cruel condescending smiles of the organizers. From the plot point of view, the author’s imagination is very amazing, logical thinking is also relatively strict. But the author’s preferential treatment of the protagonist seems a little too obvious… That’s all. The main thing is the theme.
Yes, the theme.
From the beginning of the anime I was a little shocked. It describes a state of existence that a large proportion of today’s young people are or are about to enter: idleness, lack of effort, inability to focus on doing something well, and adding to their failures: “I didn’t focus on it.” If you keep doing this, you will become old and die without realizing it.
It gives me the creeps to think about it. (I was young, after all)
In youth, which should be full of dreams and the future, in front of all kinds of entertainment to confuse the senses and judgment, without much cruelty and blood, people seem to tend to be mentally weak and incompetent. And this cartoon is like a harsh and cruel supervisor, with a tone of mockery and contempt to laugh at those who have achieved nothing but muddled poor people. Maybe the poor ones will wake up, maybe they won’t. Because lazy and naive will have inertia, like a person falling from a high altitude, there is a chance to grab some objects to save themselves from death, provided that the grasp of the hand and body pain. Who knows how small the pain is compared to the moment you hit the ground?
To exaggerate, the true recipe for success in the modern world is, as the host of a recent episode of the Winner over ten thousand, the Life-and-Death Gamble, put it: “One man is not a king, and if the poor unite against him, shouting gold as dirt, the king will disappear. However, the poor wanted to become Kings themselves and demanded money, which only strengthened the status of the present king. The king cannot be defeated as long as there is a struggle for fame and wealth. The poor will only be shackled forever.”
(Sigh!) For a manga writer with such a sophisticated view of society, it seems that little Japan did capitalism pretty well, and most people understand the cruelties of modern competition. This is indeed a profound wake-up call for many young people of our generation who are not aware of this situation in their own countries.
The dark underground construction workshops, the sunny normal life on the ground, the luxurious gloom of the top floor of the mansion，Isn’t that the perfect metaphor? They, we, they，We, they， they， they, they, we， click, you can always find your true place in this ferocious, twisted society. People who want to live out there.
But anyway, the cartoon is still a cartoon, exaggerated N times, everybody don’t be scared is. Maybe it is far from the status quo; maybe learn from the good behavior, the best… By the way, this is a deep comic, really.
