Guriko is a character from my favorite Japanese manga
Worst.
It is about a school called Suzuran which is famous as it houses most of the delinquents within its area.
It’s like reading a mob story. You have beefs between characters, group clashes, betrayals, loyalty…
The main character is Tsukishima Hana who is basically a Boy Scout that leads the school against another school from Toyko in an epic clash at its climax.
Hanaki Guriko is Hana’s antithesis. The anti-hero. Womanizer extraordinaire who does his thing and cares fuck all about the general situation, until one of his friends get assaulted. Then he shows his true colors, his loyalty to his friends and the rage it unleashes inside of him.
It goes without saying that they are the best of friends who duke it out in the end. And what a glorious fight it is. The buildup, the punches, the defeat and its aftermath.
What I love most is the permeating sense of honor. The sense of traitors being more vilified than enemies. The sense that even enemies can respect each other and help if a greater foe arrives.
The sense of everything that is lacking in Western society.
It’s worth a read, I recommend it.
Because we all have a little bit of Hana and Guriko inside of us.
Hana
Guriko
Romans 8:31 - 'What shall we then say to these things? If God
be for us, who
can be against us?'
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