#namely midsommar bc I grew up in a cult

[genderfluidgothwitch]

Also, I made a realization today. Today was the first time EVER where I have officially been too stoned to watch a horror film

[abri-chan]

One thing im wondering in gangsta is how are the kids not in school most of the time? Like ik home schooling exists but not all these kids are going to be homeschool

I'll be honest, I don't think most manga or anime have a good take on kids and education in general. Kids are there or exist in these series because often anime only has teens to young adults as protagonists, but they're written by adults so???

I think in Gangsta we get glimpses of what education is like for the very rich and the very poor. Rich kids like Loretta and kid Worick get proper education through homeschooling and private tutelage. On the other hand, kid Nic didn't know how to write his own name until he was 12 or so, take a few years. He only learned to read and write bc some rich kid got into his blond head this mercenary boy could be his friend and took it upon himself to tutor him. Doug, however, wasn't so lucky as he even confesses to adult Nic that he didn't have any good education, let alone knowing sign language. Maybe the guild has some basic school programs, as military establishments often come with them. As for the rest of the kids who are in the middle, it's not clear to me where or how they get any education. There's been some philanthropic institutions in the past, like the orphanage Delico and Yang (and Erica) grew up in, but that got burned to the ground. It was never touched upon what happened after that, even though we see some kids run into adult Delico and get freaked by his apparent tags. There may be schools at the outskirts of the city, maybe? Other options are good adults that take pity on you, like Theo possibly teaching Nina through apprenticeship. Maybe a lot of kids are simply illiterate.

We could find out more about kids and schooling if Heather gets some manga time.

(Unrelated but one critique of Midsommar is the lack of children in the picture, because children play a great role in these cults. The role of kids is less defined in a world like Gangsta: you need them bc the circle of life, but it is ultimately a manga about adults.)