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05/12/10(Wed)16:44 No.34723973Looking
at this series, I can really tell how good the manga must be. A bit
more subtlety, and this really is an excellent look into the depths of
corruption inside prisons. If it were so easy for one person (in this
case the friendly guard), there would not have been a problem at all,
however this episode showed that it’s really impossible for him to stand
up to his superiors.
It’s way overdone, but heck, I’m really
warming up to the themes of friendship here, and the bond between the
lead characters. This isn’t just one-sided, in which An-chan protects
the six ones around him because of the suicide of his former friend in
prison. You can also see that everyone tries to return his favour, and
help him out to defy psycho guard.
This episode also kept hinting
at the practices of that really creepy doctor. I tried to look at some
statistics about prison rape, and got quite scared of what I found. In
2007, there were already 70000 prisoners raped. Just think of how worse
it would have been in a world recovering from the biggest war it had
ever run into. I find it really hard to determine whether that creepy
doctor is portrayed accurately or not.
Psycho guard is a bit too
much though. Even though I have no idea how the minds of these corrupt
officials work, he still feels like a caricature: for 24/7, it feels
like he’s busy trying to make An-chan’s life miserable. Now there are
grudges, and there’s hate so ridiculous that it just stops being
believable. |