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Not quite. Since you’re dropping the series anyways, here’s why all that happened:
Daemons of the Shadow Realm first few volumes
Asa spent the first several years of her life kept in a cage by this village. At some point her parents took her and ran, but they were forced to leave Yuru behind because the people of the village got in their way. She and Gabby have spent all the years since then being targeted by assassins from the village because of the power she has. They even succeeded in kidnapping her once, which is related to her missing eye. The fake Asa in the cage is there purely to keep Yuru around because the village wants him to awaken to the power he potentially might have, and then help to conquer Japan someday. They’ve sent people to attack him in the mountains as a false flag sort of thing multiple times before to try to get his powers to awaken; the only reason he’s still fine is his dad brought him up to be a complete badass. Every adult in the village is complicit in this; they’re told what’s going on when they come of age. Those who aren’t willing to go along with the plan are exiled, which is what “going to the lower world to earn money for the village” actually usually means.
Honestly this one is very very good but it might be better binged anyways.
@[email protected] Is Yomi no Tsugai your first Arakawa Hiromu anime? You can bet there’s more going on than you see in the first episode,
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since Arakawa’s stories are generally pretty nuanced, and Yamaha-ba was implied to be a suspicious character from the get-go.
I’m cautiously optimistic about this one, but I think it won’t really come into its own until around the middle of the season. Definitely recommend withholding judgement until that point at least.
Of course not.
I don’t recall either Fullmetal Alchemist or Silver Spoon opening with a character chopping an entire village’s adults in half while they screamed in agony and their children looked on, sobbing and screaming in terror and grief. And if they had (FMA had its share of broadly similar moments), we certainly wouldn’t have been expected to then sympathize with the person who so eagerly did it.
I mean - we weren’t expected to sympathize with Shou Tucker were we?
Yes - that was made pretty clear. And I don’t see how it can possibly be relevant to the brutal and horrific murders of a whole bunch of other people.
I haven’t entirely given up on it, if for no other reason than that Gabby hasn’t reapoeared and hasn’t been mentioned, so I don’t know yet how her and her actions are going to be addressed, if at all.
But everything I’ve seen so far indicates that they’re going to just be sort of swept under the carpet, and she’s going to be treated as not so bad after all, because she must be okay because she won’t kill children (even though she will leave them sobbing next to the corpses of their parents). So I’m not optimistic.
Thanks - saves me having to wonder if it might’ve been worth it after all.
I’m sure there are people to whom a story that unfolds like that is appealing. I’m not one of them.