Some Final Thoughts on The Royal Tutor (manga)

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I agree. I also thought that the Kvels were representative of the Jewish population. We were introduced to the Kvels by some anonymous person or group’s hatred of the Cafe Master’s success in business. Heine talked about their ancient kingdom falling into ruin thousands of years ago, dispersing the populace. Yet despite moving to other countries and a millennia passing, it seems as though they’ve never fully integrated themselves into those countries. Despite being born and raised in those countries, there’s a huge sense of “other,” like there wasn’t much mixing (ethnic wise anyways, obviously they’ve become a part of the community through business, working with a befriending the natives, contributing the same way as any other regular citizen). It lines up a lot with what we’ve seen with what the Jewish diaspora had to put up with in the past. And I agree, it’s not a representation you see often in Japanese media. It made me appreciate the story a bit more since it gave it more depth, and made the lessons of becoming a leader multidimensional and realistic. Not too surprised tho, we see in the beginning with Bruno, his thesis often mentioned the country’s multi-ethnic strives of equality, developing the government to fit modern development, etc. The author did a good job adding layers to what could’ve been a simple, cute story