Inuyashiki: Last hero review [Spoilers alert, skip to P/s for apologies]

 

This series has a stupidly simple plot and still is baffling. There is a reason for everything mentioned [edit: at least for the psychological questions], but it may not be satisfactory as it is either too simple to believe or too generalized, yet exactly because it is simple nothing else can be derived from it; it is simple true. I will try my best not to spoil while still giving best insights possible for what happened, but I recommend you to get familar with the whole plot first. Also, I have only watched the anime, and not read the manga yet, although I am confused enough by the anime and would probably not going to read the manga, as I don't think there is anything else that could be a missing piece from the anime; it was a rather well rounded storyline in the anime already, although, like I said before, it seems to be far too simple. There may have been a lot of cuts in the storyline, and therefore the story moved much faster than it should have. It is the curse of the first impression. Maybe I will read the manga, after all. But I am so busy these days, and the recent DCMA shutdown on mangadex and other sites didn't really help either. And I'm certaining would not be spending 50 bucks to get like 3 volumes either. But enough about me already, I just wanted to update a blog on this stupidly simple and complicatedly cool series, but here I am debating copyright morality versus accessibility in my head, thinking about how I managed to get to see this, blah blah blah. Well, I just need to stop and focus back on the topic. And I will now. Sorry for that! Thank the author Hiroya Oku for creating this, and the studio and everyone who helped created this; thank everyone on the internet who has spend money and time and effort for letting people like me to get to see this!

 *Spoilers* tag for the content below.

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 Suddenly there is some aliens came to Earth just to kill two random people by isekai-ing them with their spacedisk-kun, only to not isekai them and recreate them with world-destructing machinary and then never came back. Already this sounds like a gag anime, but it's not, and we get hit by these psychological scenes and questions of what it means to be a human, and the pathos of those actions the two main characters made with their newly acquired abilities. One is an old man who looks even much older than his actual age. He has been working hard his whole life, only to have a wife who looks like she competes in wrestling and also doesn't give a shit about her husband, plus two kids who aren't grateful barely enough for what their dad has been sacrificing for them to have a normal-ish life. He found his life to be meaningless, that no one would even shed a tear if he would die of terminal illness. He went to a park walking his dog, which he found in a carton box, and you can tell that he resonates deeply with the fact that no one wants the dog. He broke down and cry hugging his dog. The spaceship came and crash into him, killing him instantly, alongside a teenage boy. They were recreated with weapon modules strong enough to destroy the planet from the spaceship because they didn't have anything else at hand. Why those aliens felt the need to recreate them can only be explained by the plot armor. 

The old man ended up using his power to save people, which make he feel human even though biologically he is everything but. Nothing much to say about this since it is easy to resonate with: helping creatures of your own kind could be very well programmed into our DNA, and if not, religions, modern education and ideologies might as well have done that, for a good reason. Human's strongest ability which has helped us rule this planet is collaboration. You may think it's our "intelligence", but without the ability to communicate and hence collaborate, one person's intelligence doesn't really make any difference, especially in the early age where nothing is discovered yet. The screen you are reading from, the speakers you are listening from, the house you are in, just to name a few things, the technology to design, raw materials gathering, refining and assembling efforts go to them have been the collaboration effort of countless people. Helping other people may as well be common sense.

The teenage boy, however, has a different vision, one is much more controversial, but still, nonetheless, widely accepted. He doesn't care at all about people who are not directly close to him. He cares deeply about his family, his best friends, but not at all about anything else, except manga, which he loves. He would feel more sorry for a manga character if they die than a real human. It was a revelation for me that a view like that exists. The widely accepted part stops here. He first use his power to kill random people, just for him to "feel something", as now he is a machine, and he chase to feel the grieve of other people like it's the key to his humanity. After seeing how painful it is for his mother if she ever finds out about what he has been doing, he decided to stop killing people, only for the police to come after him; society, the internet and media to decimate his image and so his mother to suffer collateral damage, with the result being the mother dies by suicide. So he went and killed all those internet trolls who has been stalking his mother, giving her location and photos to the media, mocking her. He is now crashing at the home of the girl in the same class who fell for him for standing up to his friend (after he has received his power). The girl first chose to not believe his crime, eventually forced to believe by him showing her his power, still she let him stayed with her and her grandma, urging him to redeem his ways by helping people. At first when she heard the rumors of his crime she was very uncomfortable, but after she and him go out saving people's lives as a way for him to redeem himself, she is not bothered by the gossips anymore. Once again the police came, this time they even shot the girl and her grandma, which I guess is a understandable thing consider now they know how dangerous he is. He survives of course, and set off to kill the whole nation (Japan) for coming after him, and asked the girl to live with him somewhere like Hawaii after he has killed all those who are after him, and this time the girl allegedly refuse (I did not hear her refusal, I only infer from what the boy said). Did she or did she not refuse again? I have to rewatch that part. But one thing I know for sure, that she would let him stay at her place if he ever wanted to. He chose not to because he didn't want her and her grandma to suffer collateral damage. And he set off to kill every single (other) Japanese people, and then only the hero can stop him, and stop him the hero did, only by a stroke of luck as they are matched in abilities. One thing to note is that they fought until they both are unconscious, and the machine automatically fought out and with a stroke of luck our hero won. Another stroke of luck for the hero's now-is-grateful-because-her-dad-is-ironman-who-heals-people daughter's life as the story conveniently helped the hero to save her. It is baffling to me these scenes that they use AND recylcled of dead people suddenly coming back to life with no other reason than plot armor. I hate how MAPPA studio does these 100% pathos 0% logos scenes, which is the main reason why I dropped AoT from season 1. I also hate their idiotic looking 3D rag-doll modelling. The show also touched on controversial topics such as (cyber) bullying and the appearance halo effect but those are easier to explain so I'll leave it at that. My guess is the manga may go a bit deeper on those.

 That was a lot to take in, I know. The plot contains both good and bad points. I like how it resembles real life, showing how a circle of hate and revenge human normally prefer could be detrimental for both parties, but then again there is no change for a human to turn into a machine that can "ratata" non-existance air-bullets to kill other people, not to mention doing that through freaking webcams. Again, no explanation given except for plot armor. I guess the story doesn't really answer every reasonable question that could be raised. I was too focused on the psychological implication and most likely so did the producers. But the psychological stuff is pretty cool and I like that. Still it is absurd because a lot of things just don't make sense and could not be further from reality. Still, it is a fresh air from realistic psychological shows without being a show mainly about fantasy. 

Worth a watch. 7/10, tag: for experimental viewers. Or read the manga, after some questioning Gemini told me it explains a bit more about the "deus ex machina" origin, but the anime captures the 10 volumes run quite faithfully. 

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P/s: Sorry for not uploading last month. I was sooo busy. Sorry for being a bitch too; of course I'm writing for myself, but this is for other people to enjoy too, and a balance between both is the best, at least for me, as it is quite meaningless to write a public blog without anyone to read it except me. Well, I don't even read it, I just want to write it, because to be honest it's kinda suck lol, and to polish it takes too much time and effort, and ultimately defeat the purpose of uploading, as I would not upload anything because I will never feel that it's good enough, or I would upload but it would be more like a study than a blog, and worst of all it would be once every lifetime. So it is quite meaningless to do something like this just for people to read it as "content". I mean, I can certainly try to do content-ish stuffs, and maybe it could be fun, like those YouTube channels about everything and anything. And it could also still be satisfying for me to create those blogs as they may be relatable for me, I learn about the thing, and many other reasons. It would be a kinda fun thing to do. I would need to increase the production value of this blog by spending more resources into it. I maybe will try to do this eventually, without breaking my resources bank, of course. But I'm not promising anything, a promise is a responsibility I'm not yet willing to take.. It's funny how you would have to carry more responsibility simply by being more powerful, like if you have money, you have so much say in what kind of things are to be developed, what kind of people are to have a better lives, etc. Being weak does give you the advantage of no matter what you do you wouldn't really affect anyone. For example, if my blog has like 8 readers as of now, if I say stupid things, not many people would know, not many people would be exposed to my stupid ideas, even fewer would try and may cause harm for themselves or other people, so I can say literally what the fuck ever I want without damaging anybody, even myself. 

So I'm going to say: good night. Just because I can do something doesn't mean I should do it. OK now I'm trying to think of something cool to say again because I'm an attention whore. Luckily I'm shy enough to not cause too much damage upon myself. That was not the case in the past. One may think that if one is an attention whore one could come up with some solution that makes one famous and not infamous, if one cares about that. By I am also lazy, and not a very bright one either. So that's that. I have learnt about what I'm capable of, and am now starting to manage my expectation accordingly. I would still try to do my best and test my limit sometimes as not to miss out on life. But yeah, life doesn't faze me as much anymore, now that I have started to think this way. You only suffer if reality is worse than your expectation. I learnt that from watching Dr. K on YouTube. I also learnt that if you watch a video and feel good that means you are only recalling what you have already known and not really learning anything new, because learning literally creates a chemical or hormone or whatever in your brain that makes you feel uncomfortable. Why is learning makes you uncomfortable? How does this make sense biologically? Oh because it takes resources for your brain to forge new pathway, aka learning. I guess it's kind of the same with a lot of things; when you want to create something potentially valuable you gotta give up some resources. Do I wanna do that with this blog? I kinda just wanna be here and have fun jerking myself off. Metaphorically, of course. But that wouldn't really create anything more meaningful, which is kind of like my physical situation right now(?) Just stay at home and jerk off wouldn't really help you grow/learn, but it would save you from the world beyond, from which I have received many hard-knock lessons and I'm not sure if I'm comfortable to venture out again without any sure-fire rewards. Too many metaphors and it clouded the fact that I am not really out of this world and I'm just finding a better way to cope with life and I think I'm getting better at it, at least for my mental state as of now. Feeling like a snob saying this but knowledge can be such a curse. OK I will shut up now it's 2 am and I have school tmr so peace if you are a cute girl please send a message I would do anything to have a cute gf I was born to roll you in a blanket of rose petals those kinda shii :* I'm sorry for asking for your nude please forgive me I thought what I wanted would make me happy but many times I have been proven to be wrong and really I think you are such a strict girl sometimes and you will grow to be a very strict old lady but I think time would soften you as you become more confident and less insecure. And there were many reasons for why I couldn't do what I was supposed to I really appreciated you for being such accepting but exactly because of you being so nice I couldn't tell you that I hate the fact when I kissed you you tasted like cucumber and I didn't really like that but I ended up saying other stupid stuffs anyway that still made you more insecure about yourself so I'm sorry for that. I know words are just things people made up and pixels lighting up on screen but why do I feel the need to publicly told everyone about my and another person's private life I guess because this is the only interesting story I have to tell and I am such a lazy and attention seeking person that I would definitely not spend the time and effort to come up with a whole fiction to satisfy the need of the unknown internet community. Plus I'm a very honest and genuine person so I would never have lied like that but I'm also humble so I would never have said that about myself and would never expect other people to realize and feel good when they do appreciate me for being real and genuine and humble and full of interesting ideas and very logical about stuffs but I do hate it when I am invisible and ignored which I am totally not.