If it is the third option Hikaru is awfully casual about it. There'd be more fallout if that were the case.
But it certainly throws some parallels to Death Note and Light into the mix.
Methinks Obata is the one who potentially has issues, and it bled over in HikaGo and is more deliberately portrayed in Death Note. Together with the mystery surrounding Ohba's identity, there's the possibility of collaboration or something else entirely. Even with Hotta doing the writing for the story, Obata does have some influence over things that happen/are shown.
I think the Dad is "just" distant and absent, as is often the case for a Japanese salaryman.
Meanwhile, it does go both ways, but we don't know, as you said, which came first. Still, Hikaru is the kid in the situation, something had to have made him act that way.
Mmm... Artists can influence quite a bit - an angle, an expression, the pacing, it all makes a big difference in how the story is read. Don't think he had much to do with the absence of Shindou senior, though. Hmm.
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Re: I'm working this out as I type, don't mind me
Date: 2010-07-14 10:18 pm (UTC)But it certainly throws some parallels to Death Note and Light into the mix.
Methinks Obata is the one who potentially has issues, and it bled over in HikaGo and is more deliberately portrayed in Death Note.
Together with the mystery surrounding Ohba's identity, there's the possibility of collaboration or something else entirely.
Even with Hotta doing the writing for the story, Obata does have some influence over things that happen/are shown.
I think the Dad is "just" distant and absent, as is often the case for a Japanese salaryman.
Meanwhile, it does go both ways, but we don't know, as you said, which came first. Still, Hikaru is the kid in the situation, something had to have made him act that way.
Re: I'm working this out as I type, don't mind me
Date: 2010-07-14 10:25 pm (UTC)Re: I'm working this out as I type, don't mind me
Date: 2010-07-23 08:13 pm (UTC)Re: I'm working this out as I type, don't mind me
Date: 2010-07-24 04:43 am (UTC)