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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Brenan calls himself "Director of the GIB" or "Chief of the GIB", but what is GIB exactly? BTW, countries named "Commonwealth of Borodias" and "Republic of Catanbe" do no exist IRL. And "Mr. President" of what? He mentions Europe, so it's possible that he's president of some country from Europe. I couldn't find to what country those flags belong: The best I could think of is that "G" means "government" and "B" means "Borodias" |
SerhiykoAug 31, 2017 3:01 PM
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| I was enjoying this Jigen-centered episode a lot...until it turned into political conspiracies and such. Newser said: Brenan calls himself "Director of the GIB" or "Chief of the GIB", but what is GIB exactly? BTW, countries named "Commonwealth of Borodias" and "Republic of Catanbe" do no exist IRL. And "Mr. President" of what? Well, fictional countries are nothing new for a series with a minimum level of silliness such as this one. I was thinking that this mystery country is a stand-in for America given that the flag is red and white stripes with a blue field in the upper left with a white celestial symbol inside and "GIB" would be a stand-in for the CIA, although the president doesn't look or act anything like Jimmy Carter, the US President at the time. The reason they didn't just use America is that this country does outrageous things in this episode. America is a favorite punching-bag of anime, but it's commonly not very fair, as here. The most egregious example of white minority rule in post-WWII Africa was Rhodesia, and America, as well as virtually the entire rest of the world, refused to recognize its government as legitimate and punished it with economic sanctions for its racist policies. The whole idea of a decolonization story is a little late as virtually all of Africa had already gained independence/majority rule by the time this episode aired (Rhodesia and South Africa being exceptions), but fiction usually lags behind reality a bit. Aside from that, it seems kind of weird of Lupin and company to be used as a sort of commando team, and it's pretty weird how they outright kill the president of this country at the end. |
| From Apartheid to full blown racist genocide and a murder of a U.S. President to boot. This wasn't heavy handed at all. |
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| I don't know whether this is original story or manga adaptation But the writer/author really like the "black people is oppressed" theme Are they trying to send a message? xD Awww this is 2nd time Jigen have broken heart Well at least Angelica is good girl unlike the previous |
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| Yo, what's up with Jiren's bad luck when it comes to woman? |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| It felt bad to see all of those people and Angelica die, and believing in a lie. But at least Jigen, with the help of his friends, was able to avenge them. |
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