can you please help explain to me what exactly the etiquette committee does?? i know they have a bunch of severed head dummies but what do they do with them..... what is the committee for??
Your question made realize that I also didn’t know what the true purpose of the Etiquette Committee is. But don’t worry, I asked amazing user namenamo if she could help me with this question (Thank you so much Nacchan!!).
Here’s the info that she investigated in mostly her own words:
Basically what they do is that they learn about etiquette in wars, mostly in handling heads (as in real chopped heads) like carrying them or putting on makeup or tying their hair or how to pack them up and ship them etc.
It’s quite extreme (the handling heads thing in real life won’t be figures it will be real heads) and it is said that only kids brave enough to stomach the content of the etiquette syllabus can join the committee. It started only in vol 33 of the manga and probably season 6 of the anime.
It is revealed that before etiquette committee was founded etiquette lessons weren’t done for lower grade students (probably due to it’s extreme nature). Why do they need to handle heads? Because examining heads is an important thing in identifying whether they got the right person to kill in a war (killing the general/admiral is an essential point to prove victory of a war or to threat the other party to surrender or scare the enemy) they don’t always identify the heads, sometimes they prep and show to a POW or ask their mole/rat of the enemy for confirmation.
That being said, etiquette committee’s job is to learn everything there is about prepping heads, from the make-up/dress to presentation (the stage) to how to identify the heads (there is a specific way to do it apparently) and how to carry it. Etiquette committee also managed the head figures (this was previously part of the tools committee job, but Senzou insisted on taking over because it’ll be easier to learn). After identifying the heads, the soldier/samurai that brought in the head could claim their prize (either a promotion in rank or some kind of promised reward).
In the event that Ninjutsu Gakuen becomes a battleground (this happened in Vol. 38 when Takamaru entered the school and was “supposedly” attacked by assassins) etiquette committee automatically assumes a role of keeping the army diary (states who their enemy is, number of soldiers of both sides, weaponry, how the war broke out, flow of war (from start to finish, how much time passes and the what of casualties)) and also a book on achievements (like who did what that made the war/campaign successful) so that they can hand out the prizes/bouses later.
In Season 16′s seaside school arc and season 17′s whale hunting arc the etiquette committee was involved in learning about etiquette of the navy via hyougo suigun (their navy is not more like pirates but not as bad as real pirates). They also acted as emcees in season 20′s Shirahaemaru audition arc (because of this relation). There’s a ton of other etiquette involved with suigun mostly because they’re really superstitious and cowardly when it comes to luck /ghosts, (this is the same with wars on land). LIke in was there’s a way to eat/conduct daily life (because of superstitions).
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