Zutaboro Reijou wa Ane no Moto Konyakusha ni Dekiai sareru Episode 11 Discussion

I love how both sisters have their dark secret, they don't want their happiness taken from them even if asked by their own sister.

But I want to know more about their little brother, it's almost as if he doesn't exist. I'm concerned if he's being abused as well.

Pfft, I'm sure all the nobles and royals in the kingdom do all the paperwork on their own rather than delegating it to staff. Sure. Riiiiight.

Real stretch for 'criminal activity' when they could easily point to mismanagement on a broader scale that has led to the impoverished state of the county.

@Tarrian I'm sure you know, a lot of crimes are impossible to prove but the ones that get the perps caught are small, petty ones. Think of Al Capone... the Mob Boss who evaded arrest for murder, racketeering, and worse, for years only to finally be apprehended on tax charges. So, it's not inconceivable that this is similar. Though it seems that the Shadaran family father is really just a dolt who is himself possibly a victim of some sort. His mom said herself, he was meant to play music. Perhaps her husband, his father, insisted that he become the Lord against his own wishes. And who even knows what his wife did to persuade him. She seems the real evil in this mess.

@Ranchpig That wasn't the real point. The point was that the creator pulled something completely ridiculous out as a crime to hammer them with, when there is ZERO chance that the vast majority of nobles/royals aren't doing the EXACT SAME THING by delegating paperwork of all sorts to their underlings.

There's no way that could be made criminal conduct. None. Zero. Zip. Once a country gets to the point that it's running on records, there's going to be an absolute flood of paper that no single person is going to be able to handle on their own. That's why you see secretaries and assistants, and every other manner of paper flunkie put to work in every other series.

It's like expecting the CEO of a company to do it all themselves. Nope.

@Tarrian

I hear you, and this is basically the case of the anime cutting important details of the "chores" Marie was doing for her parents. The Web-comic and manga provide more important details. Marie, wasn't just writing letters for her father, she was also managing the village workers conditions, talking to immigrant workers in their native language, of which they have many in their territory. She was also managing equipment and public projects of the territory, as while handling the accounting, and overseeing her little brother's studies.

Simply put, Marie was the one practically running the barony.

@Strategist0083 And that is exactly the kind of information that needed to be left in, it's kinda important to supporting the plot.

I'm glad to hear the creator wasn't just pulling things out of nowhere but it really hammers home the critical failures that can happen with an anime adaptation. I wonder if the creator wasn't involved or if the director made poor choices...

I've enjoyed the setup and character interactions especially, enough so that I suppose I'll have to check out the source.