Eden of the East

[Yukimura]

@Ryllharu: What rational adult would enter into a buisness contract with someone who has an admitted case of ~weeks old amnesia without doing at the very least that same Eden search that Ohsugi did? These people know nothing of Akira's life before his mind wipe and what issues he might have forgotten about that the world might still remember yet they seem willing to just trust his word that he's completely on the level. I find this puzzling as he himself can't offer any explanation for his abnormality or guarantees that something from his past won't jump up and bite them in the ass for associating with him. Getting involved with someone you don't know well and who doesn't even know themselves just seems like asking for trouble to me.

On the Ohsugi front I'm far more annoyed at the plot device that he represents than his contrived jealous guy behavior. When I look at him I don't even see a character worth judging at this point I just see a plot device worth being annoyed at for its lack of subtlety. Ohsugi's purpose in the story seems to be to uncover potentially dirty information about Akira while at the same time tainting any such information with his jealousy and zealotry so that the characters (and the audience) will be less inclined to believe ill of Akira than if they had uncovered the same evidence themselves or through a neutral party. Since I lean toward the 'Akira was not such a good guy' camp I'm somewhat annoyed that any evidence supporting this belief will likely be poisoned by strawman Ohsugi and written off as less jealous rambling . On the bright side (for me) the fact that they are going to the trouble of setting up Ohsugi to skew negative opinion away from Akira's past could be a sign that there is more dirty info to be found and I can hope that ignoring that info now might later bite everyone in the ass, serving them right for falling for the strawman ploy in the first place.