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Effex ([personal profile] effex) wrote2010-07-14 02:53 pm

The Totally Epic HikaGo Reread - Vol. 10



~Volume 10 of Hikaru no Go~

Chapters 79 - 87
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[personal profile] onkoona 2010-07-14 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Like I said in an earlier post; this is not unusual behaviour for a Japanese family
Kida are allowed to run free (see the converstation between Hikaru's grandpa and his mon, earlier)
untill at a certain age they have to become an adult almost instantly.

Now Hikari is only 14 but Isumi is 17 and he's starting to feel this preasure and not much from now Nase will feel it to.
This is NOT an 'oh I have to grow up sometime" preasure. This is a REAL preasure that is part of Japanese society.
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[personal profile] zanzando 2010-07-14 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Believe me, I am intimately familiar with the "No Boundaries + IMMENSE PRESSURE ALL AT ONCE" method of raising your kids.
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[personal profile] onkoona 2010-07-14 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sure you do.
As did I.
It doesn't work. Unless the kid has his own drive, as does Hikaru.

But in Japan it's true for ALL kids.
It's so bad it has become a real social problem; not every kid is as resilliant as Hikaru.
Take Ochi. He's going to have obsesive compulsive behaviour problems, if he isn't there already....
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[personal profile] zanzando 2010-07-14 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
If he's this bad at that age - nope, not looking good for Ochi.
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[personal profile] onkoona 2010-07-14 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[nods]
And doesn't look like his grandpa has the gumption to get him some help anytime soon...
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[personal profile] zanzando 2010-07-14 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
True. Especially since his grandpa seems the type to think that some pressure and hardship do a kid good. >_>