It's been a while that I'm reading on mangago but it's only recently that I decided to creat an account (in 2022 I discovered that you could create an account) I'm using mangago sinceeeee middle School so I was 14y and now I'm 19 o/....I wish I could learn translating or cleaning since I'm learning japanese in college, btw I'm french
HEY everyone! I do have a question about ai no kusabi : it's been many years since I watched and read the novels, but it's only now (since I recently rewatched the anime) I'm asking myself : why there is no women in this world or where are they lol? why there is so many men in the slurs and in the low city like ceres? is it because men control everything? does riki have parents, since we rarely see women?
and how the blondies are ...created? selected? (is there a school, are they genitically modified to be better human?)
there is many things that are weird and mysterious for me In Ai no Kusabi, But I REALLY love this anime and novel so I need answers!
i went back to look cause i realised i had no idea either the book has lots of stats about the sex ratio in ceres, that being 9:1, but nothing about why. id probably chalk it up to genetic alteration that reduces the chance of females after the creation of guardian, to prevent ceres from having a large population. although the ceres independence movement failed, should they have a freely growing population they could likely try again and that wouldn't benefit Jupiter.
in guardian only approved bloodlines can have children, all naturally born, as only midas citizens have the possibility of artificial wombs ("[Ceres] ought to be using artificial insemination. Men and women are born in Midas using artificial wombs, right?"). guardians main purpose is to control the population of ceres, and part of that is reducing the female population to prevent those living there from being able to have children.
and i went to look at what the wiki had to day and they said this "The number of blessed children whom women bore were limited in number for population control. The accursed law of Ceres said, "You don't have to kill what you never let live in the first place." (V4 p103)" which is like exactly what i had to say but more concise
idk if u want me to answer any of ur other questions if ur curious the wiki is really quite good if u wanna browse
https://ainokusabi.fandom.com/wiki/Ai_no_Kusabi_Wikia
The og novels explained the gender ratios, there are women in the rich areas but they just aren’t really talked about. Among the blondies the ai that controls the planet created them and didn’t want anything to taint the perfect beings it created, so there are no female blondies, and they are created sterile so they can’t breed with any female of any race. So that’s why there aren’t any women mentioned in relation to the blondies (there are a small few in the og novel).
As for the slums, Ceres, there’s a political reason that area became the slums (read the novel if ur interested). But the political system wanted to ensure that area didn’t grow or have any control of its population. So all children are born in a nice area, raised until a certain point, then the boys are sent out into the slums and the girls are kept and given a “good” life.
The world building in the og novels is really interesting, I wish there had been a little more focus on it. Particularly how Ceres became what it was, there where hints of interesting backstories all over the place that really didn’t get fleshed out.
Hello.
Would you mind to share the og novel links, please? I really love to know more details of the setting and story. (☆▽☆)