Concrete Garden

Concrete Garden is actually a Japanese Comic (manga) that I've read just a few moments ago. Just because it's comics doesn't necessarily mean it's for kids. If I were to rate it, I'd probably say Mature, and even then I won't recommend this to people with a weak or shallow way of thinking.

My love for homoeroticism aside, I do believe this is one manga to challenge minds out there. I'm not a great person, I'm not old enough to say that I've acquired the wisdom of age so I don't really know how said wise minds will think about it. In other words, what I'll be babbling about here is completely based on my opinion of the manga.

I don't want to summarize the story, I will only say something about the cannibalism part. To be blunt, this post will be another part of my campaign against animal cruelty and dog meat trade.

At one point in the manga, Toki (the angel who eats human flesh)tells Kiyoharu (the protagonist) that eating human flesh is the same to him as eating fish and poultry and goes on to tell the story of the first blood-sucking mosquito who had the courage to drink blood from a mammal and continued doing so because blood has more nutrients and it tastes better. He even states that his preference for food would be a woman with a bit of fat in the inside.

To Kiyoharu (and to most of us as well), the idea of knowing a cannibal is downright appalling and we'll find ourselves ready to throw up. Toki responds by saying that that's because we are looking at it in a human's perspective.

Point should be well taken right there. It is from a human's point if view.  Personally speaking, I can't eat any red meat. I have witnessed livestock being slaughtered, and even until now, I cannot get myself to  forget the cry of a goat as it is killed hanging. It sounded too human for my ears. My thoughts as a child went somewhere along the lines of "Please stop it". And my thoughts went from that to "If you can hear that kind of cry and still kill, who's to say you can't kill a human begging on his knees for his life."

Yes, I'm a dark person by nature.

People I know who are included in the dog meat trade and dog butchering own their own pets at home, and even now I still wonder how those pets remain by their side knowing what their masters kill some of their own and may as well kill them in the near future.

It's like being the loyal child of a heartless murderer. To a child, until his/her mind is at a certain stage, the parent is god. So you see your god killing people and you think "he wouldn't do that to me". That is how much trust a child gives to the parent. But pets give more trust than that.

When a child grows and s/he realizes the wrong of parents, he has the mind to refuse it. He  can work for a different future, move away and live his life the good way if he wants to.

But for pets, that trust and that love is eternal. There is no such thought as betrayal, or running away. There is only loyalty.

So for that loyalty to be repaid by cruelty and death, personally, I think is inhumane.

Shame on humans, huh?