This is good. This brings out that feeling of dread and uneasiness that yukkuri comics are supposed to have, at least for me. Why? Because of the stark contrast between the reality of yukkuris and the depiction of them in the book, creating a sort of implicit culture of abuse and torture. So the child doesn't become angry at adults or the book for lying but rather at the yukkuris for failing to live up to the expectations in the book, sharing food and living happily. Every time the child sees a yukkuri he or she will hate the yukkuri for this reason, much like humans covertly hate each for not looking like the fashion models found in magazines or the romantic heroes found in movies and novels.
No, he's not. That book is his report that he makes himself Maybe you got it wrong and think that those happy book is the factory version of their doing?
The book seems more like a textbook, seeing as he was reading from one in the previous strips (or maybe he's reading his account of factory visit to the class). Either way, we won't really know until this get s translated.
Assuming it was a field trip the teacher supervised, it would be funny if the teacher was all like "Didn't you pay attention? That's not what it was like at all. Are you functionally retarded or something?" and failed him.
Oh, well if book is made by him then that's even more delicious. It shows how the child wants to hang onto his idealistic vision of the world rather than the harsh reality.
Isn't the boy accept reality which is full of shit and wear adult mask to tell lies. He do his path as faking innocent boy who believe santa exist. Or else there will be huge scandel in class and his parent will be trouble.
^I'm not seeing how denying reality is maturing. If anything, this kind of behavior must be nipped in the bud before he becomes a pathological liar or psychopath (of which a lack of empathy is a symptom).
It is not deny.It's just accept how it is. Animal-lover group turn bind against livestock. Worker who drive pass accident to get to work in time. They know what is their roll.That is how adult is.
>^I'm not seeing how denying reality is maturing. If anything, this kind of behavior must be nipped in the bud before he becomes a pathological liar or psychopath (of which a lack of empathy is a symptom).
The reason he is mature is because the truth goes through a cognitive filter before it emerges, which is more mature than people who simply blurt out the first thing that comes to their minds.
For example: say someone you cared about asked you how they looked. The immature, truthful person would say "You look like shit." thus causing the other person to become depressed and/or lose their confidence. A mature person would tell a white lie because they know its result, although not the full truth, is more beneficial. They would say "You look fine." or "If you just did this, you would look a lot better."
Because the mature person realizes that the truth may bring about good things but that the truth in and of itself is not good, and should not be an unbreakable ideal. That's why Rorschach from Watchmen is a flawed character- he knows that what happened was tragic and for the best and the greatest good for the most, but his stubborn insistence on truth and nothing but the truth causes him to meet his death against a purely logical and rational being, which is what humans should strive to be.
So, this boy doesn't want to cause unneeded stress and fear among the classmates, so he tells a brighter version of the story. If a mature adult sees kids playing with toy animals and the animals are co-habitating peacefully, the adult will play along and not causes undue confusion and unease among the kids. An immature asshole, on the other hand, will tell the kids that in reality the animals would rip each other apart and insult the kids and forcefully enforce a rigid policy of only the full and exact truth, thus depriving the kids of imagination and a friendlier view of the world( at least while they are still children).
So it's not a lack of empathy but rather an abundance of empathy which motivates the boy's actions. Also, why tell people something they can't change? Even if those kids think what's happening is wrong, why tell them when they are young and can't change anything? It does nothing but cause unneeded stress and fear.
On the other hand, he could be retarded, and incapable of realizing that the things he saw in the factory were morally incorrect, but morbidly amusing.
His sever mental handicap might prevent him from acknowledging that the yukkuri were not only being starved, but likely prevented from achieving any kind of relaxation, as shown by all the dead and dieing koyukkuri in the pen, likely left there to cause even more mental trauma to the already despairing yukkuri.
Sarcasm tends to be lost on the internet... here it also has the ability to lead to massive wars and screaming over misunderstandings so it's probably best to avoid it.