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But let us proceed with order. Despite
in Italy is famous for Shigurui , historical drama tones pulp, Yamaguchi is relatively famous in his homeland for the sci-fi vein, usually agglomerated to themes, precisely, or simply samuraiesche folk flavor. Even
Kakugo , dated 1994, belongs into this category, the series is a mix of styles sentai ("the superhero in disguise"), post-apocalyptic ("We are at the end of the XXI century -") filled with samurai ethics and grotesque. There is a series
easy, and it is certainly difficult to analyze where you do not pretend to indulge in reading, considering it simplistic and narrow-minded. However
Kakugo is not a simplistic work, and despite the facetious tone is full of interesting thoughts.
First, Yamaguchi is one who loves to see good triumph ( Shigurui apart ... But there is already dancing in the sting Norio Nanjo anticlockwise). Endows his characters with superhuman abilities and moral ethics the edge of paradox, is an author who loves carnality, and loves to overlay the physical sacrifice to quench spiritual welcomes a certain irony and modern criticism, but then always gives us the love story with a happy ending and the final "and they all lived happily ever after."
In many respects, Yamaguchi is very similar to Nagai, and at various points, even Kakugo has many affinities with the manga Devilman , where, however, differ completely in purpose end: If Nagai concluded its work with a final basic message was the lack of communication between Good and Evil in spite of the substantial similarities, Yamaguchi says that it is for the "good" is not only punish, but first try to "redeem", because everyone's fundamental goodness and thirst for justice, even in those who do evil.
That said, however, Kakugo is above all a satire continues on most modern trends, which provides counterpoint to the anachronistic ethic of bushido, but always fascinating, not surprisingly, the main character is reflected in the ethics dell'Hagakure ( which of course is his last name), written during his warm times of peace the Edo period as a protest to the character "effeminate" of the warrior class of the day: where the luxury life suggested a long and soiled from commercial practices, Yamamoto called exaltation death, suffering and "hard work" without an ineffable sense of fundamental nihilism: this contrasts here Kakugo strict "internal martial law" in disarray and the criminal excesses of the "enemies" of the myths that embody your (love, longevity, compassion, individuality ...) is not false to the intrinsic qualities, but because interpreted with obsessive perversion, thus making "tangible threat" to the human race that is their "food."
Another interesting factor is the binding of Kakugo with their armor, Zero.
As in other sci-fi series of purely Japanese style, from Kamen Rider in Guyver, the 'hero' is such Kakugo depending on his armor or "disguise" to get the 'approval' armor to be worn is in fact the latest evidence that sanctions Kakugo a "worthy warrior" in culmination of years of hard work and sacrifice. This is a sentient armor
found interesting to put on it is just a phase, which must lead the souls of Kakugo and Zero on the same line, the approval of the armature has a something of which to obtain the epic ' mythical object was not only a test of strength but above all virtues, it suffices to note about the legend of King Arthur.
Therefore, what protects Kakugo Zero is not just physically, but also his inner-usually we use the metaphor of an "outer shell" outside when we want to describe someone who seems invincible but in the end a vile and petty mind, here is the armor instead of pure and true manifestation of what is inside: as well as protects the Zero ' Kakugo of interiority, and then his soul, so is almost Mishima tribute above all to the classic match between form and substance to the 'ideal' heroic, just married here in the shape of a being that combines a superhuman with superhuman strength and moral ethics. Since
Kakugo a product and optimistic moralizing even in its most grotesque, among other apologies to the courage, hope and need to adhere to an ideal of goodness, no one could dispense with their say on the subject of love.
The 'love', understood in a purely romantic tone, it has a special treatment in this story initially, Kakugo refuses to admit their feelings for Tsumiko because this would run counter to its mission, which obviously has no place for mere individualism.
But later, the feelings of Kakugo become clear and strong, so much so that at last the boy is forced not only to outsiders, but also to fight for them, with total disappointment Zero itself.
We saw in the "demons" introductory manga representations of "jokes" were turned into human obsessions and therefore dangerous enemies, including love and sex are the masters, and they occur at ridiculous figures stuffed with individualism and egotism, the warrior ethic that eventually the conviction is not the love itself, feeling healthy and human being who makes the world go on, if only in a genetic sense, but the exaltation of blind and oppressive of their instincts, the need to satisfy their own selfish needs before those of the beloved: Kakugo is determined to sacrifice his life for the salvation of Tsumiko, of course, thanks to his sacrifice, by virtue of the purity of her feelings, she will be able to "awaken" the evil "spell" of the enemy: the "reality" of Tsumiko Demon Fighter is in fact only an appearance and surface Kakugo and his comrades know that the essence of Tsumiko, just like a warrior, is immutable. After this introduction pretext
two decades about the plot and then analyze the table with some of my favorites ^ o ^
Uhm ... Ok. We
around 2015 on that of Neo-Tokyo and the planet Earth is a disgusting: polluted and poisonous to the point where baths are provided "disinfection" to prevent the population to get sick just by breathing, horrifying insects seem to rule the world where the terrible "Combat Demons" does not make their appearances / Banquet looking for some human to be muttered.
Single institution still seems to be running the school, where kids can interact with normal, defend one another in dangerous falls at home and especially hope to be able to build a future. One fine day
makes its appearance in the Institute of High School Gyakujuji a new student, quiet and serious, Kakugo Hagakure, which conceals the identity of Zero, the Humanoid Combat Weapon.
Task Kakugo / Zero is to defend the weak with his superior martial techniques, residual post-war dear grandfather of Shiro, a terrible war criminal who developed gingillagine all of which is attached to the family at the expense of millions of Hagakure innocent victims (among other things, I Shiro must explain why the experiments carried out in China, implying that uses civilians and enemy soldiers as guinea pigs but in the end the victims seem to be just and only the Japanese themselves -).
denying the perverse practices and ideals of his grandfather, Oboro, the father of Kakugo and Harar, he coached children from her beloved children, with the ultimate goal of making honest warriors in the service of humanity and justice. Oboro
children first began the practice of the Martial biozero, then the strength training through the metal ball biozero and, as a last gift of an uncomfortable legacy, it gives the two Exoskeletons of Empowerment.
The exoskeletons are sentient armor, so with souls souls full of bitterness as from the victims sacrificed for their creation, and synchronize "to be accepted by them is virtually impossible, and Oboro is well aware of the risk faced by their children.
Kakugo, with his gentle soul and sympathetic Zero wins, his armor, the first offering from the warmth of your body, and later a repairman seppuku after hearing the terrible truth behind its creation.
Harari, the gifted and handsome older brother Kakugo however, must contend with the much more rancorous Kasumi: possessed by the spirit of a mother "died of hatred" after her child had been sacrificed to create the pretext of armor 'Using "Pure material," Kasumi hates gender and human and even more people: after having been cut to pieces by the entrails of Kasumi, Harari accepts the challenge and "recomposed" (with the help of the Spheres) in a female body , stating that he also shares the hatred of the wretched human beings: Kasumi and Harar make an oath of vengeance.
After realizing the intentions of Harar, Oboro tries to kill him, but worse on the unique abilities of the child, and since then Kakugo has promised to kill his brother (Harari has a female body and speaks of himself using the feminine, but it is undoubtedly a "male"), representative of human perversion, and his feeling was reinforced after becoming aware the fact that behind the attacks of demons Combat is just Harari, who leads the troops monstrous calls himself "The Human Devil."
While the fighting and proceed one at a time the thugs of Harar fall under the force of spirit and colossal ass Kakugo barrels, we begin to look even Harari and his point of view in a not-so-obvious: the same author in final fight where the two brothers face each said that the two are custodians of "Two Truths" equally legitimate: Kakugo where is the human dignity, Harar has been targeted at protecting the dignity of all creation, man always walked to his inherent selfishness and violence. At
Kakugo has the upper end is up at that Kasumi Harar, which frees our hearts from hatred and violence which blinded them both, with acts of mercy and humanity before violence.
But there is no time to breathe Kakugo and Co. already have to cope with an unexpected new enemy, nientepocodimenoche Hagakure Shiro in the flesh!
Shiro has returned to implement his delusional dream of Empire, but is blocked by Kakugo and Harar, and after the ultimate sacrifice of his advisor has now been brought back to life from his flesh.
The two brothers then, having finally reconciled agree to cooperate in creating a new world where the hopes of finally Humans can develop in the shadow of the safety and happiness.
.. Now straight yarn on my favorite scenes:
Tsumiko is the chubby female protagonist, with a generous spirit and kind and madly in love with Kakugo (naturally reciprocated, but in modest reserve).
E 'apparently modeled on the singer Mitsuko Horie, which is the primary source of inspiration and that is the seiyuu nell'OVA.
After suffering a blow in the stomach by Zero, the Demon Combat duty svomitazza his human meal - Among the dead one, however, is not dead yet!
Tsumiko and others recognize their classmate, who, dying, he complains of the cold and pain ... Tsumiko instinctively running toward the boy, and despite the stomach acid burning the skin and clothing, keep in a warm embrace, comforting him with words of support in his last minutes of life.
It 's a scene that touches profoundly Kakugo, which is even more convinced that defending human beings is good.
In this scene Oboro "shoot" the metal balls biozero in the body of his children: the pain of a single sphere is capable of killing a human being, but Kakugo accepts as many as 8 in himself, his father ringranziando gift of blood and vomit.
Harari claims that, as elder brother, should have at least twice, and not satisfied with the pain calls his father to shoot from distance still closer: Harari is a member of the family Hagakure with more balls implanted in the body.
"The true warrior is not enough to overcome the pain, the true warrior fights to dominate."
Here, a special Kakugo / Zero because Zero is clearly gay and Kakugo for both:
Kakugo, not knowing how to approach the armor decides to communicate with Zero sharing with him the warmth of her body. After
private warmth until he dropped into a state of unconsciousness, finally Zero "opens" to test the spirit of the boy.
Shocked and moved by the misfortunes of Zero, Kakugo to make himself worthy of his tasks is to achieve the same level of suffering by committing seppuku, and then beheaded: the souls of dead warriors who live in 4000 Zero are so touched by the kindness and generosity of light Kakugo to accept it with enthusiasm and strong emotion.
two pages in which the emphasis is to taste the sexual union between Kakugo and Zero, in the manga there are the beats of the classmates of Kakugo about it.
Another fanservice.
But we must not think that acts of devotion only concern Kakugo.
In this scene, another of my favorites, Zero puts his devotion before his own happiness:
After being exorcised by an enemy, Zero finds himself in Heaven.
With a unique and perfect body, assisting the peace of paradise, a place where souls are completed, and love forever.
However, when other souls are close to him to make him share in eternal peace, he contemptuously away: "I am a soldier I do not want happiness, I want to do my duty and my duty is to restore peace in desolate world inhabited by Kakugo! " , and commits seppuku, defile and saying goodbye forever to the salvation of his soul.
Epilogue of the previous scene: Zero Kakugo back to find him and to support the exhausted body of the beloved Mitsuko; disgusted by the weakness of his partner asks him how dare a female preference for the salvation of the duty for which he has sacrificed his soul, and Kakugo, after laying on a Tsumiko giacilio essersene and safety assessments, strips and responds "Words are not enough to express what I feel! will be the answer to my own body!" and the two finally reunite
~ And finally, we can not say a few words to the adorable Harari / Kakugo :
Surprisingly, affected by the significant progress Kakugo, Harari decided to make one of his vassal, bending to him with the power of a kiss.
The thing ends with a stalemate, because the thought of Kakugo Tsumiko to prevent Harar creep into his psyche, but these boards sent me into raptures * _ *
A nice metaphor in the final battle between samurai Kakugo and Harar in the eyes of Tsumiko.
"Killing people ... I wish this had been the last time."
Harari melts, Kasumi unfortunately no Q:
The bloody embrace between the two is simply adorable.
Harar is also an interesting character, but I noticed a discrepancy in the fundamental its characterization, giving the idea that, compared to the final, Yamaguchi has begun Kakugo with a clear set of "work in progress". Indeed, if initially
the author's position is quite clear in defining the reasons of Harar in the series and nell'esplicarle Yamaguchi goes around in football.
In the opening chapters dedicated to the betrayal of Harar in fact, what I deduced from his behavior is that he and Kasumi have rejected the teachings of Oboro because they clash with the initial reasons for the imposition of arms biozero.
"Who mastered the martial art biozero has been chosen by Sky and has a duty to use his power to restore the beauty and order in the world "is what Harari cries of his brother at a time when he proclaims his loyalty to the ideals of his father.
background appears Shiro Hagakure, to testify that Harari did his grandfather's teachings.
Instead, later, Harari will be represented like Satan devilman, on the side of the Demons and the Combat against humans, hated for their cowardice and the culmination of which is just the hated Shiro, a source of hatred which is driven by superhuman Kasumi the same, in a kind of junk eco-terrorism.
Only in the final fight against Kakugo, especially after the sacrifice of trusted Rai and dell'impavido Bolt, Harari has begun to be represented under the light of a character "with a thirst for equal justice in Kakugo" reprehensible and hardly ... About the
Kakugo reviews that are around me is pretty simple disagree on several points, offered as a leitmotif of the series: the first is that of Bushido; usually purports to explain all the work as a post-modern homage to bushido, while certainly references to bushido, in its most decadent dell'Hagakure are obviously present, to venture that the whole work revolves around it is a little bold and simplistic, in fact Kakugo also praises the spirit of simple ordinary people and how they are those in whose hands is the salvation of the Earth: "biozero is a martial art. biozero gives death. biozero stifles the breath, stop the heart, tearing the meat. but also can spend a hundred or a thousand years, biozero will leave behind only a river of blood and a mountain of corpses. The whole of humanity struggle in the dark deep of this planet destroyed. I'll never know take her out of this sea of \u200b\u200bdarkness. But you're able to do it! " admits Kakugo Tsumiko beloved.
Another point to clarify is the apology to the alleged "fascism", perceived by some readers suggested, and abundance of greetings martial warriors and ideals of sacrifice and selflessness.
I think if that were the case would given more importance to the role of Shiro Hagakure, the most "fascists" of the series and not coincidentally the only true "absolute evil".
's goal is to bring glory to Shiro Japan and the emperor, objectives or never even mentioned by Kakugo Harari, concentrated towards more absolute and anachronistic ideals of vulgar nationalism.
also interesting to note that, as the samurai ethic is based on hierarchy and obedience to his master one face of the cardinal points, and Harari Kakugo that in itself does not have any "master", and act motivated by a strong moral temperament staff rather than 'orders' imparted to him by a superior.
Of course, one could use as Oboro and Kasumi deferens of the two, but I believe that the role played by these figures is more traditional and strictly hierarchical motivational.
- And ok, that's all. Sorry for the post
unprofessional, but I really loved this series ... Melts at a disarmingly simple moral un'efferatezza equally disarming.
great.
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