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ウ組の若衆
カスタードくん:捜査追跡
フルボッコちゃん:尋問
ミーシャさん(故人):死体処理
これに加えてヒンリギさんの掌を治療した能力者もいるのかな?(ヒンさんがジョルノみたいに念で自分の体組織を作って傷を埋めた可能性もあるけど)
若頭含めて全員サポート系で火力不足……暴力方面で突出した念能力がある人材は十老頭系に売り込みに行くかフリーランスで腕貸し稼業なのかもしれない。
生牡蠣の吐き戻しを慣れた感じでやってのけるあたり、ヒンリギさんは駆け出し時代にあの芸で運び屋をやってたのかなとか、人混みでガンガン円を使うのは「極道はモメてナンボじゃろが!」というヤクザマインドなのかなとか、ハンターや暗殺者とも違う念使いの流儀が垣間見えて面白いよね。
マフィアのみなさんは師匠から指導を受けつつ将来性やら考えて能力ビルドした訳じゃなく、天性の才能ある奴が何かのきっかけで偶然に能力が開花しちゃったんだろうけど、カスタード君は何がどうしてああいう能力になったんだろう。フルボッコちゃんは何となく想像つくけどw
ヤクザの幹部なんだから部下の鉄砲玉を囮に使うんだろうな、と内心で見下してたところで自らあっさり死地に赴くヒンリギさんのナチュラルな覚悟の決まりっぷりに本気で驚いて、自分もリスクを引き受けてサポートに追っかけてきた上で改めて名前を聞き、自分の方も敬称抜きで呼んでくれよと告げるノブナガのくだりは蟻編のメルエムとコムギのカジュアル版再話ですな。
ノブナガにとってのコムギであり、「頼んだぜ」の重さを承知の上で目下にしっかり伝える点では若衆たちにとってのジンであるヒンリギさんは、ハンタという物語世界においては確実に格の高いキャラのはず。ヒソカも「君の推しグループの解散ライブを最前列で観せてあげるよ♡」って心づもりだろうし、旅団の行く末を見届けるまでは退場しないだろう、多分。
つか、「今、殺りにゆきます(人を殺す感触を味わいたい)」vs.「てのひらを太陽に(ぼくらはみんな生きている)」で後者が勝つのは生命賛歌だよね~~
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羂索 Vs. 髙羽 戦まとめ
第一ラウンド
羂索:呪霊で先制攻撃 髙羽:事象書き換えにより攻撃結果をリセット 羂索:事象創造系の術式と判断 髙羽:羂索のコスチュームにアイテム追加 羂索:術者自身のイメージを具現化し他者にも強制する術式と分析
羂索:ギャグへのダメ出しによる精神攻撃で出力抑制を図る 髙羽:オーディション会場を創出し羂索のコスチュームもTVディレクターに変更(羂索のイメージを取り込んだ?髙羽自身のイメージ?) 羂索:通常攻撃が通るようになったのを確認し、術師のメンタルが術式発動に影響すると推論
羂索:髙羽のギャグを独りよがりとダメ出しをした上で、より面白いギャグを披露 髙羽:羂索からの評価を否定して対抗しようとするも黄櫨の死体を見て動揺
※お笑い芸人としての原点を確認した髙羽が自己開示とコミュニケーションを諦めない意思表示
第二ラウンド
羂索:特級叛霊で先制攻撃 髙羽:トラックを具現化し呪霊を一撃破壊、羂索にもダメージ(おそらく通常は特級クラスにトラックが衝突してもノーダメージだが、「もったい付けて登場したバケモノが出オチ一発退場したら面白い」という髙羽の発想により世界観が押し付けられた)
羂索:警官コントから病院コントに誘導し、その流れで髙羽に電撃 髙羽:次のコントに移行しダメージリセット
羂索:看護婦コントで自身の肉体変容を確認 自分が仕掛けたコントのイメージもフィードバックにより具現化されるのを確認(クイズ番組への移行は髙羽が素で知らない「ハドロン」が出題されたので羂索の意志か?)
羂索:猫に変化し髙羽をタクシーに撥ねさせる 髙羽:そのままロケーションを海に変更したコントを続行しダメージリセット(水平線が見えるような広大な背景を現出、対戦相手を質量ともに変幻自在な生得領域に閉じ込めるという領域展開に等しいことをやっている)
※全てがコントの一幕として如何なるダメージも「なかったこと」にされる髙羽に対し、ダメージの蓄積により疲弊していく羂索(死者を出さない術式なので、おそらく羂索は呪力も体力も尽きた状態でも表面的には無傷に修復されて延々コントに付き合わされるはず)
第三ラウンド
羂索:髙羽を満足させることで術式を終了させる目論見でM-1の舞台をイメージし相方を務める(自分がボケ役を引き受けて舞台を主導) 髙羽:夢の舞台で相方と漫才を演じきって満足、術式終了
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感想戦
私は『呪術廻戦』という作品の良い読者ではなかったけれど、この羂索 Vs. 髙羽 戦というカードは能力バトルもの漫画の歴史に刻まれる傑作だったと思う。
ギャグ世界の住人が能力バトルに参加したらどうなる?という試みは作中でも引用されたフリーザVs.両津や『遊戯王』のトゥーン系カードとかでもやってるし、明確な下敷きであるボーボボのハジケバトルの構造がそういうものだ。 個人的には領域という自分の世界観を押しつける呪術バトルの中でギャグ世界の法則に巻き込むというのはTRPG『TORG』のカートゥーン・レルムを思い出した。カートゥーン・レルムは流石に実装したらGMの負担が大きすぎて扱いきれないのでエイプリルフール企画で終わったが、あれを真面目に実現したらどうなっていたかを突き詰めると「超人」術式になるわけだ。
初手から一切��めプせずに必殺攻撃を放ち、��ントに巻き込まれてダメージを負いながら試行錯誤して術式を分析し、遂に攻略法を発見する羂索の姿は、完全に「理不尽な強敵に蹂躙されながらも粘り強く戦って勝機を見出すチャレンジャー」であり、全力でぶつかり合った結果として強敵との間に友情が生まれちゃってるのも込みで、本作中では非常に珍しい「さわやかで熱い少年漫画バトル」の一戦になっている……いやまあ、そもそも羂索は準ラスボスで物語の黒幕なんですけど。
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「宿儺に全力を出させてやれなくて申し訳ない」&「孤独だが寂しくはない、生物として隔絶しているので他者に理解を求めない」という五条、「挑んできたものを返り討ちにするという形でしか他者との関りがもてなかった」カシモ、長生きし過ぎて友達がいなくなったせいで独り語りが増えた羂索という描写が重ねられた後に見ると、寂しさを認めて自己開示し、羂索を笑わせることを諦めないと宣言する髙羽はみっともなくも美しい(この戦いの裏では宿儺の「孤独を恐れぬゆえの強さ」を称える裏梅のバトルが繰り広げられていたりする)。
今際の際のヨロズが宿儺に対して「私のことを知っていてくれた」と喜んでいたように、相手の術式を真剣に解析して攻略するというのは相手の世界観を理解することなので、「俺のことを知ってほしい」がお笑いの原点である髙羽の本願は倒されてこそ成就するのだろう。
でも、羂索は全身全霊で髙羽に挑んで理解しようとしてくれたけど、髙羽の方は羂索のことを理解してないから、やっぱり「ひとりよがりな三流芸人」ではあるのだよな。
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すべてが終わり日常に帰った後、髙羽は「夢の舞台」を心にしまい込み、あえて「最高の相方・羂索」の幻を追わず、本来はツッコミ適正でありながら羂索を手本にして相方を幸せにできるボケを目指す……というあたりが健全な落としどころかなと思うけど、この漫画はあくまで「呪い」の物語ですからね……
アレはリカちゃん2号と同じ呪力によって再構築された仮想の羂索だと思うんだけど、だとすると適性のある観客にしか目視できないしTVにも映らないから漫才は成立しないはず。髙羽がピンで舞台に出ても、ノリによっては客前で収拾のつかない事態になるので芸人として詰んでいる。呪術師に転職して、自分の術式について自��することで大幅に出力を落として制御するしかないか。いろんな意味で強烈な呪いを残していったな、羂索。
髙羽の末路は物悲しくも恐ろしいけど、『破壊神マグちゃん』の単行本加筆版最終回の相似といえないこともない……か? あちらはひとりの人間の一生をかたわらでしっかりと見守り続けたからこそ、その記憶と権能によって非物質的な永遠の存在として再構築できたけど、髙羽は羂索のこと全然知らないからなぁ。少ない情報を元に作り上げた人形だと、「他者」ではなく作り手の可能性の域を出ない成果物になっちゃう。やっぱり羂索らしいエグい呪いですよ。
でもまあ、千年を生きたバケモノがその命の最期に「運命の人」と巡り合い、ほんの一瞬、心を通い合わせて死ぬという羂索の末路はやっぱりロマンティックで大好きなんだ。髙羽は気の毒だけど、古来から化生のモノに魅入られた人間は破滅すると相場が決まってるから、しょうがないね~~。
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Why is it so difficult for people to understand that Ubisoft is being racist?
I’m a long-time fan of Assassin’s Creed. It’s a part of me at this point: a reason I got interested in history, a reason I opted to take French classes in Highschool. I remember counting the days until the movie came out, going to theaters on release weekend with a friend. It wasn’t a good movie, but it remains a fond memory to this day.
As I played Ghost of Tsushima, I kept thinking about how cool it would be if the protagonist were a Ninja. Sure, there was a skill tree focused on stealth, but the storyline was very much about honor and the internal conflict of being a warrior. I wanted more subversion, loyalty and shady dealings- in short, I wanted to see the Assassin’s creed take on it. Templars funding corrupt kirishitan daimyo, lone assassin shinobi becoming nukenin, that sort of thing.
When I first heard that there would be an Assassin’s Creed game set in Japan, I was excited for it. Then, they revealed the protagonists to be a Japanese kunoichi and …a samurai foreigner. Was it a marketing decision? Because we’ve had Italian assassins in Italy and American Assassins in North America and Egyptian Assassins in Egypt. It’s obviously a conscious choice, then. Ubisoft stating that no, having a Japanese woman as the sole protagonist just won’t do. The Japanese Ubisoft statement that has since been deleted spoke of the creative team finding “our” samurai. Are the Asian, much less Japanese, constituents of the AC fandom not “theirs” enough?
If that were all, then it would’ve been business as usual; I wouldn’t have posted anything, albeit with lingering disappointment towards Ubisoft. However, there’ve been claims that the allegations of cultural appropriation and historical fabrication are all racist reactionary backlash to having a black protagonist, which I felt was actively harmful to my continued existence so here I am.
First of all, the fact that Assassin’s Creed is a work of fiction and that there are many works of historical fiction that do outright silly things in Japan is not the center of discourse anymore in Japanese circles so arguing that Ubisoft has artistic license is rather a moot point. Yes there’s feminized Oda Nobunaga in FGO, made by a Japanese company, move on from that please. Most people aren’t concerned about the player base being stupid enough that they can’t tell that AC is a fictional game. We aren’t stupid, neither are you.
The issue about historical fabrication lies in the concern that players will enjoy the game and decide to search about the historical Yasuke and come across Lockley’s book, African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan, which is utter bullsh*t. He is alleged to have edited Wikipedia in small increments over the course of ten years to authenticate his speculations as fact. After being outed on Twitter by Japanese AC fans he deleted his socials. And although I believe gamers aren’t stupid enough to believe AC is completely factual, I can’t believe that people won’t trust a printed book written by a scholar since even Encyclopedia Brittanica believed him. An article in ScreenRant even cites this book; while Japanese fans have been exposing one falsification after another these past few weeks, none of that information is reaching across the waters, where it would actually be relevant to target misinformation. If you think I’m lying, go to the Japanese language version of Wikipedia and click on ‘translate page’ for a quick overview of the problem (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC). It’s not in the English version. We are rightfully concerned that people will read the book because they like the game and come to believe that Japan participated in the transatlantic slave trade. We are rightfully concerned because we know there’s been wars fought over who has enslaved who and punishing those deemed morally degenerate. We are actually scared because Assassin’s Creed is a big title series god*amn it.
This is honestly my first time coming face to face with racism to this degree. Posts on Tumblr, English Twitter, and gaming media have made it out to be that the only people complaining are white men, as if the backlash is only from gamergate. I enjoy reading articles from IGN and Polygon and whatnot on a normal day, but now I’m faced with articles saying there’s been “some criticisms” (emphasis not mine) being raised in Japan and even claims that Japanese people are overwhelmingly looking forwards to the game while white bigots are the only ones complaining, completely minimizing the issue. There’s 90k+ signatures to cancel the game in a Japanese language petition, and sure, there may be a few thousand racists who took the time to translate the page and sign, but it’s insane to state that it’s composed of mostly white men. Like c’mon. There’s been boatloads of Japanese language tweets about the AC Shadows controversy getting tens of thousands of likes and quotes on Twitter. There were only two English articles that I could find that cut into the issue and one was written by a Japanese writer translated from Japanese media. COME ON. “Ubisoft didn’t need to release an apology since they’re only angering internet trolls” is not the point media should be making. Can someone have the guts to write “Ubisoft needs to release an actual apology instead of dancing around the problem?” And why do we need to say that we want a Japanese Assassin’s creed game to be about Japanese people in the first place? Shouldn’t it have been the obvious choice? I’m looking forwards to playing an African Assassin cutting the throats of colonial traders in Capetown, whenever that might happen, and my non-Asian friends have been looking forwards to playing a Japanese Assassin in feudal Japan, and I think Ubisoft is just giving all of us the finger. A nice, nonthreatening, manicured finger.
I really hope Ubisoft and/or HarperCollins denounces Lockley’s book before the release date for at least some semblance of damage control.
And before anybody says anything stupid, I am in fact not a white dude, I am a Japanese American Female studying Anthropology. So thank you, Ubisoft, for influencing my life decisions. I hope my disappointment reaches you.
#yasuke#ac shadows#assassin's creed#Ubisoft#cultural appropriation#historical revisionism#Thomas Lockley#Assassin's Creed Shadows
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Examining developer interviews reveals a key difference in approach. Ghost of Tsushima involved meticulous research to craft its fictional narrative, while AC Shadows chose to "portray historical facts with imagination." This disparity in handling historical representation is what distinguishes the success of one game from the other.
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Furthermore, being fiction does not excuse copyright infringement or plagiarism.
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As can be seen from his frequent lies in media interviews, he doesn’t seem to consider lying or rewriting history to be particularly bad. There are people in this world who prioritize their own sense of justice over conventional moral values: Why destroy classical artworks? → Because it’s better to make more people aware of environmental destruction. Why block roads? → Because it’s better to stop the use of oil. Why portray Cleopatra as black in documentaries? → Because it’s better to give black people “a history they can be proud of.” Why fabricate the story of the legendary black samurai? → Because it’s better for people who arrived in a foreign land by fate to gain the strength to live. These are recent phenomena occurring mainly in the West. Destroying artworks, blocking roads, distorting history, and fabricating history with double tongues are obviously all bad. However, in their minds, these bad deeds are secondary to realizing their “justice.” In other words, they genuinely believe that their actions are good deeds. You may not understand this, neither do I. But the fact remains that there are a certain number of people who hold such beliefs. However, with freedom comes responsibility. Those who cannot follow social rules, such as abiding by laws or not lying, should be arrested or expelled from academia, even if their actions are their “justice.”
#yasuke#ac shadows#Thomas Lockley#historical revisionism#cultural appropriation#assassin's creed#Assassin's Creed Shadows#Ubisoft
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Dreamy History Assassin 1: How Did Thomas Lockley Edit Wikipedia?
How Thomas Lockley edited Wikipedia and the impact of his actions The adverse effects on the general public abroad are immeasurable
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Yasuke - Thomas Lockley & Fakten 【Deutsch】
Assassin's Creed Shadows war doch nie historisch akkurat
【日本語字幕有り】弥助&トーマスロックリー問題についての追記/アサシンクリードシャドウズ(ドイツ語)
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THE TRUTH OF YASUKE AND DEI MARKETING
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"Insane! Thomas Lockey, responsible for Japan's major deception about Yasuke, was caught editing Wikipedia since 2015. He has since quit social media and claimed he will never play AC Shadows. Portrayed as a hero by the media, he's now seen as Japan's biggest historical scammer! @Mangalawyer "
"Japan started a petition to demand Nihon University and Thomas Lockley to correct the misconceptions of Yasuke. The truth always wins. @Mangalawyer"
ソース: youtube.com
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WE ARE MAD! JAPANESE SPEAKS UP: RACISM IN THE SHADOWS.
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I am not good at, nor do I like, expressing an opinion on a single matter. However, as a Japanese person, I would like to express my opinion.
I played Assassin's Creed and was looking forward to the release of a game set in Japan one day. But that idea has changed. UBI said, "This is based on historical fact" and "Yasuke was a great black samurai.
When I saw The Last Samurai (movie) , "White people are becoming samurai! I don't like it. It's weird." I never think that. I thought it was a very attractive and cool movie. It doesn't matter what color your skin is, what gender you are, what nationality you are.
"This is a fiction story, or, this is a fictitious story." If Assassin's Creed SHADOWS is fiction, I would not be so critical. Yasuke was real, but there is no historical fact that Yasuke was a great black samurai. You are mixing fiction and reality.
What ever happened to the culture of Asians? Do you think the history of people with yellow skin can be changed on its own? I hope you know what many Japanese are angry and saddened by this opinion. This is by no means just a Japanese problem, it could happen to any country. Please think about it as your country and yourself.
This text was written using a translation. I apologize if some parts are not clear. Thank you for reading this long text.
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War Yasuke überhaupt ein Samurai? 【Deutsch】
弥助・伝説の侍の真実と問題 アサシンクリード シャドウズ【日本語字幕有り】
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署名の発信者 Shimizu Toru
最近、ゲームデベロッパーのUbisoftがリリースを予定している「アサシンクリードシャドウズ」について、歴史的正確性と文化的敬意の欠如が深刻な問題となっています。 このゲームは日本の侍を主題にしており、侍が武士階級の上位階級であり、「御家人」あるいは貴人に仕える者であるべきという事実を無視しています。実際、初めて侍の称号を得た欧州人であるウィリアム・アダムズ(三浦 按針)は、250石取りの旗本として徳川家康に仕える者でした。 このような歴史の中で、Ubisoft は侍の本質と役割を誤解し続けています。これは日本の文化と歴史に対する深刻な侮辱であり、またアジア人種差別に結びつく可能性があります。 私たちはUbisoft��対して、「アサシンクリードシャドウズ」の発売を直ちに中止し、日本の歴史と文化に対する真摯な調査と敬意を示すことを求めます。あなたのサインが必要です。この請願に署名して、文化的敬意と歴史的正確性の重要性をUbisoftに伝えましょう。
#Assassin's Creed Shadows#Assassin's Creed#Ubisoft#cultural appropriation#historical revisionism#Change.org#Thomas Lockley#ac shadows#Marc-Alexis Côté#Sachi Schmidt-Hori#Yves Guillemot#Karl Onnée#Charles Benoit#Jonathan Dumont
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