Am I the only one confused as to why there's discourse on the latest chapter (117)? Why the hell is everyone worried that Hokazono just portrayed the entire Shokoku population as inherently evil, did everyone just forget the entirety of Part 1??
"The story of the Soga Clan and the Mikaboshi portrays the Shokoku as inherently evil"
Uh... yeah? This is the same country that teaches kids in schools that the Shokoku islanders were "bloodthirsty savages in nature", did you think they only started the propaganda machine after the war??
"The Shokoku people attacking the Japanese pre-emptively is making Akemura's genocide look justified"
... What? These events are completely in line with Yura's retelling of the war - the Royal Family were the ones who led the invasion, it's not a stretch to believe they were aggressive about it considering they did successfully invade the east coast of Japan until the damn Shinuchi came into play (if I read the below panel correctly).
But the actions of the Royal Family during the Irishima talks don't say anything about the civilians living in Shokoku, that was the entire point of Yura's retelling of the war. None of that has changed. The Royals could be the most evil incarnate villains in all of fiction but that changes nothing about the innocence of the civilians.
There's no way that everyone read through the entirety of Part 1 and are now worried that Hokazono is going to make Akemura's genocide look justified... you know, the genocide that ate at Kunishige until he died and passed on his sins to his son, the one that made him create a blade specifically to destroy the thing that caused it, the one that wrecked at least two of the Enchanted Blade bearers with guilt to the point that one was gonna go through a s**cide plan to atone for his sins??
Tell me what the hell am I missing for people to now be comparing Kagurabachi to KKK and Israel propaganda??
[Side note: I'm also seeing some people thinking the two prophecies Chiaki made are the same, but they're two separate prophecies - the one in the previous chapter (116) was for the group that left the letter on the beach, those people came in peace. The 2nd prophecy at the beginning of the latest chapter (117) was for the Irishima talks with the Royal Family, that's the meeting Chiaki said was extremely hostile.]
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