I hope you like politics.

>The Kafkaesque autobiography of a diplomat who compares himself to Grigori Rasputin
and what happens after he gets caught up in a political purge during the early 2000s.
A legal thriller with a dash of geopolitics.

>Based on "Kokka no Wana (Trap of the State)", the autobiography of ex-diplomat and political writer Sato Masaru.


Chapter 1: That Man is a Scoundrel

Previous story:
>>280999337

>>281027961 (OP)
insane premise

Ra Ra

>>281027961 (OP)
Is this gonna be the longest dump?

>>281028214
ito is extracting a little fun as he can with those faces while he draws these boring scenes

>>281028223
Yuki looks good for a 42 year old man.

>>281028268
>>281028165
Of the Ito dumps, yeah.

>>281028318
Oh boy

>>281028525
>Yon
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>281028525
Yon reference!

Btw this manga is completely translated in spanish if any anon wants to read it and doesn't know japanese. I believe the english translation is halfway done, but it releases at a ((snail)) pace.

>>281028525
Yon...

>>281028608
Coworker is giving him good advice.

FINALLY, PENIS (AND ASSHOLE) INSPECTION DAY!

Done. I've never read this, so I have really no idea what to expect. I'm excited.
Have you ever been jailed?
See you tomorrow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16y1AkoZkmQ

This is the guy, by the way.

>>281028847
Thanks, OP.

>>281028847
I'm intrigued. I never expected a political thriller(satire?) manga from Ito.

>this dump at the same time as Shima
/a/ is going places.

>>281028956
>terminator pose

>>281028990
I'm glad H/a/tsushiba is back again, it's probably my favorite storytime

>>281028847
>512 day solitary
ok, now I understand how they got Ito involved in this. if Papillon is anything to go by, solitary confinement fucking sucks

>>281028990
>This
>Shima
>Oooooku
>Emma
it's a blessed day

>>281029030
I very much doubt his 'solitary battle' was solitary confinement.
We'll see, I guess.

Has this been completed ?

>>281029108
I figure it's going to part of it so he can have some weird dreams or hallucinations. otherwise why have horror mangaka junji ito drawing for you?

>>281028847
Thanks OP.

>>281028573
Many such cases!
The TS was top notch in this chapter, at least.

>>281028214
Do they really need this many people to arrest a single guy working for govt who even still comes to his old workplace?

>>281028407
Hussite bros, could it be...?

>>281028315
He also has a nice butt.

where's my nigga mo?

>>281028067
Can any Russkis confirm

>>281028143
Maybe it's more relevant to a closer nation like Japan, but it seems like a weird insult to give unless he's doing like wizard shit

>>281028223
Of course...

>>281028318
What a bizarre practice

>>281028268
This must be like, a terrible humiliation ritual for nips, right?

>>281028391
Why are they being such dicks

>>281028431
>random college students studying abroad in communist Europe
Did this actually happen

>>281028525
!

>>281030986
>being nice to criminals

>>281031068
He's gonna be a graduate working for the government, rather than an exchange student.

>>281028706
How are there evil Ito doctors even in this one

>>281031364
I think that may be an evil nurse.

>>281028717
Can someone arrest Hitler instead

>>281028760
I'm getting Wolfsmund flashbacks

>>281028847
Thanks OP
My legal troubles end at a call

>>281029216
There's an ongoing TL, but we'll catch up long before it finishes

>>281028717
Wait, you can get your dick ribbed for her pleasure?
>>281028760
That is a man who loves his job.

>>281031543
I believe in miracles.
you sexy thing

>>281030589
Taken by the spiral

>>281028863
He looks funny.

>>281031268
Innocent until proven guilty
Besides, it's not like he's been accused of raping kids or anything. May as well treat him like a human until it's all over

So why the fuck is Ito doing this

>>281031610
>defending rasputin

>>281031640
He probably got paid for it.

>>281030589
Where Tomie fears to look.

>>281030589
Mohe

>>281028214
>Just gotta get through the week

>>281030589
What is Mo hiding in her butt?

>>281028847
Thanks for posting! I never read this series before but seems interesting so far, Ill definitely follow along

>>281028847
Thanks anon, this seems interesting
>Have you ever been jailed?
Never

>>281028847
Thanks OP
>Have you ever been jailed?
No

>>281033764
I look like that

>>281028037

hell yeah i like this one

Can someone give me a qrd on the background to this story? I have zero idea about Japanese politics beyond Abe's "have sex and reproduce".

>>281028067
What did he even do? Can't a man just fuck around a little without being blamed for shit?

>>281037092
From a cursory google search
https://fpif.org/ideas_identity_and_ideology_in_contemporary_japan/
He seems like a grifter to me.

>>281028249
>2,272,347 NOK
jesus, they really got jewed out of this one

>>281037262
>He was accused, and in due course convicted, firstly, for improperly disbursing Foreign Ministry funds to pay for the visit of Israeli academics to Japan and for the convening of an academic conference in Tel Aviv
>Vigorous promotion of the Japan-Israel connection, of Israeli patriotism as a model for Japan, and support for Israel’s wars.
What the fuck, am I supposed to root for this guy?

>>281028847
>Have you ever been jailed?
No, but I've read a CGDCT about prison so I'm practically an expert y'know

>>281028156
>the prosecutor's here

>>281028847
Never read this one, thanks. Politics are boring but prison life is always interesting to read about

>>281028847
Thanks OP. I was a bit wary when I was the cover, but this story has been interesting so far

>>281037518
Prosecutor was being silly don't worry

>>281027961 (OP)
My favourite manga from Ito

>>281028178
Clown car

>>281030821
Maybe he's screwed the wives of most of the Diet?

>>281030761
He's often used as a scapegoat for the fall of the Russian Empire, which was a good thing but people think it's a bad thing because they romanticize the idea of the empire and hate communism. The fact is that whatever replaced the Russian Empire, it would be hard for it to have gotten worse than things already were. People were living like 10 to a room with no functioning sewage system and rampant pollution.

The man himself is immature. The people overthrow the Empire because anything was better than living in it.

>>281039980
>immature
You mean immaterial.

>>281028178
>Call in 2 vans stuffed full with prosecutors, this is Discount Rasputin we're up against.

>>281040015
Well I'm sure he was also immature.

>>281028543
>Yon's exact date of birth?
>STOP PLAYING WITH ME YOU'RE UNDER OATH

>>281028666
is that number thing real?

>>281028573
It's because the group that translates this also has a myriad other active translations

>>281029003
Imagine Ito Terminator

>>281041160
An under-noticed element of the original Terminator is that his flesh is literally rotting after the Tech Noir shootout, Itou would have a field day with that

>>281027961 (OP)
>>281028951
Because he is not the writer, the writer is the dude that make this great Manga that you can only read if you know Japanese or Spanish, Like always The USA lacks translations

https://mangadex.org/title/f809955a-2059-4a1b-bf8d-4ec0199697bb/inspector-kurokochi

>>281037518
>What the fuck, am I supposed to root for this guy?
You never root for characters in a story, that is mental illness

>>281028067
I thought Nicholas II was the most hated man in Russian history.

>>281041160
Shortened Itominator

>>281028038
That's why I read manga and watch anime
Burgermutts, leafs, bongs, and frogs are too paranoid of a concept being "unrealistic" or "unrelatable" or "outlandish"
Meanwhile nips= "what if the old car wash that just got demolished was reincarnated as my imaginary friend who is also a demon loli with a dragon tail"

>>281041749
Russians I've met see him as a weakwilled overhyped Christcuck pussy king who got unfairly murdered by psycho Jews (and Britbongs weirdly) and whose entire bloodline was probably doomed anyway

Now Boris Yeltsin, holy fucking shit, they fucking HATE Yeltsin
And Gorbachev, but especially Yeltsin

>>281041853
>Britbongs weirdly
They fear the Boris Johnson in a Japanese torpedo boat disguised as a North Sea fishing smack ready to deny them a warm water port.

>>281037572
Man, I wish I was a cute girl in jail.

>>281039980
The russian empire falling was a good thing, that had a long time coming.
The fall of the russian empire was a bloody affair filled with excesses.

>>281041824
Western weirdos just keep their most insane premises to text and books.

>>281041824
>"unrealistic" or "unrelatable" or "outlandish"
>Burgermutts
They use up their stockpile of those concepts on thinking that other countries like them
>leafs
They use up their stockpile of those concepts on new recipes involving maple syrup
>bongs
They use up their stockpile of those concepts in thinking they're still relevant to world affairs
>frogs
They use up their stockpile of those concepts on "philosophy"

>>281041699
This is the spiritual successor

https://mangadex.org/title/4a378fde-e143-485b-a938-44eeffee34b9/inspector-daimajin

>>281028706
That looks like an inefficient way to do it.

>>281028847
Thanks anon, fuck the media and fuck the feds. Interested to see where this goes, first chapter doesn't really do much aside from set the mood I guess I'd call it, but it sure is effective. And thank you for not disappointing with the song.

>>281041765
So he Itonize things? Turn everyone into comedy mangaka

>>281042699
>"philosophy"
t. germ

>>281041824
you clearly don't read enough comics.

>>281027961 (OP)
thinking premise

>>281041824
>"what if the old car wash that just got demolished was reincarnated as my imaginary friend who is also a demon loli with a dragon tail"
You could have used lots of good stories as examples and chose trash

We have Ito manga until October, right?

>>281045984
Marvel and DC writers from the 70s to the 90s went wild with their fetishes at times

>>281048762
Maybe November too.

>>281037572
>8 years
>secret
is she a dangerous rapist?

>>281028863
interesting, seems like he ran afoul of some faction in the ministry of foreign affairs which hated him for trying to normalize russo-japanese relations over the kuril islands. the offenses they charged him with were administrative misdemeanors and the the punishment was unusually harsh
>https://fpif.org/ideas_identity_and_ideology_in_contemporary_japan/
he became an advocate for distancing japan from the united states and an apologist for japan's attack on the us in ww2 after his release from prison

>>281052746
>hate Russia
>hate the US
I doubt it but does he like China?

>>281033764
Beavis ?

>>281037518
Apparently he's also christian.

bump

>>281055135
Bet you feel like a fucking idiot now

>>281052746
>Sato, the convicted ex-Foreign Ministry official and Russian expert, conservative, emperor-revering, constitution-supporting, Christian (originally a theology graduate), Israel advocate
what the fuck

>>281041853
Gorbachev was the guy who had to make the announcement that the party was over, because shit was falling apart really fast in the last two years. So it's quite silly to blame him for it, if Grigory Romanov was in the leader instead of him, he would've been blamed for it. Now Yeltsin, he's an actual rat. Allowed corruption to go rampant and performed the 1993 coup.

Where the FUCK is OP

>>281057337
prison

>>281057337
Opočno

>>281057337
With me

>>281028863
Same hairline I guess.

>>281058829
Bring him here

Please wait a bit for the chapter. I think there's a page missing in the scanlation, and am currently downloading the raw to check if it's there.

yawn

>>281027961 (OP)
>>281028037
a period piece with Rasputin by Junji would have been kino

Chapter 2: Outbreak of the Coup

>>281060377
>power to the people
LISTEN TO HIS SONG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkYFDwpNip0

>>281060443
>I'll have a tea
FUCKING FINALLY
FUCK YOU AND YOUR SHITTY COFFEE, TADASHI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_attempt

This is the page that was missing from the scanlation.

Done. I think Ito showed admirable restraint with Gorbachev's nevus flammeus.
Have you ever done anything to make Bush-san proud?
See you tomorrow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN1pIzq3PQI

>>281060663
Thanks, OP.

>>281060443
>No samovar

>>281060563
Bigger than some Tokyo apartments

>>281060725
i-it's in the other room

>>281060188
Look at the size of that cunt

>>281060906
In the (vague) words of an old song: he's actual sized but he seems much bigger to me

>>281060312
That's a fun tie for the situation

>>281060663
Thanks OP. It's weird reading this because j recognize all the names from the dozens of hours of communist documentaries my friend makes me watch, but I can't remember which ones I'm supposed to like. I get the feeling it's none of them.

>>281060986
I like gorby

>>281030761
No, we think that Yeltsin was the worst person in history.

>>281060663
Bush jumpscare
Anyway thanks OP
I don't think I want to

>>281060663
Yuki is Japan's Top Guy

Something something Mamoru something something all dailies

>>281060663
Thanks OP
>Have you ever done anything to make Bush-san proud?
Never will

>>281060725
Samovar is a novelty item, I've never seen one outside of a museum

>>281060663
>Have you ever done anything to make Bush-san proud?
Haven't shaved it in a while

>>281062300
Making fun of tank drivers

>>281060663
Thanks anon
>Have you ever done anything to make Bush-san proud?
Never want to

you guys make george-kun sad...

>>281060663
Thanks OP.

>>281060663
Thanks OP. I have never made either Bush proud I’m afraid

>>281060607
I don't get it. What attidude? Huh?

>>281060397
>not posting the john lennon song

I don't get it. Why would this super special information be given to some rando who just asks for it? Even if he works internally to the place, why tell him?

>>281063379
For fun

>>281063379
Apparently he's just friends with the guy.

>>281060524
He looks tired.

>>281063379
People like to gossip, and international politics on a day-to-day level is mostly just gossip. There's a quid-pro-quo aspect too, an implicit "I give you some info and I expect some in return when you have it".

>>281060648
It's different to Ito's usual style. But a lot of good expressions here.

>>281063363
I don't think Lennon was a character in M7

>>281063379
he established really good personal relations with the russians because of a reason that will be revealed soon plus it was a matter of time for the coup to start revealing information since they probably thought they were successful and Yuki was the first one to get there, he was simply good at his job

>>281063337
he's being ironic, the food sucks

>>281063837
I'd say this manga is at the very least a good exercise on facial diversity for him.

>>281055126
Tomie my love

>>281027961 (OP)
june

too early

>>281028371
I don't know what were they expecting from a pretty normal man.

>>281040218
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rlnBDrEWoU

>>281064266
Is he? The reaction looked genuine in the previous page

>>281060563
If you could get some books in there, it would be max comfy

>>281027961 (OP)
scoundelino

>No drinking
>no fucking
>no dancing
>no preaching.

This guys no Rasputin, this is just your average japanese herbivore.

>>281060663
Being a practitioner of Bullshitdō

>>281060663
I might be retarded or historically illiterate, because I don't even understand what Mamoru is in prison for.

>>281063337
They exepct him to put up a fight. If he becomes too compliacent and acecepts his life in prison, they'll just keep him in there for as long as they can.

>>281064266
Nope, his reaction is genuine.

>>281063796
That's what Russia do to you

>>281064266
I think the point was that, by genuinely enjoying the food, he's helping institutionalise himself

>>281067152
I wouldn't want to sleep next to my toilet, is the only thing

>>281062300
odd post to get spirited away

>>281072706
Aru's modest Arus

>>281072706
now this is the kind of AI anon should be making

>>281073609
>the east has fallen

>>281073708
>billions must spiral

lmao

>>281073609
>>281073772
Maybe wait until we reach those chapters?

>>281073840
it dosent spoil anything but ok

>>281073730
No, billions must wee hee

>>281073925
Don't be a wanker

>>281030761
Rasputin is just a wacky footnote of history for most Russian people. He was a corrupt man (a dime a dozen in Russia) who ended up way way higher than he had any business to be and started exploiting the imperial court to fulfill his needs. Nicholas II gets all the blame for trusting his spiritual healer to advice him on serious political decisions.

>>281028129
>bowing down to a telephone call
do japs really?!

>>281028249
>not even $250k burger bux
so lame

>>281075371
That's like burgers nodding during a phone call

>>281028318
Damn

>>281053062
?
he doesn't hate russia, the article implies the pro-us faction had it out for him because he tried to lay the groundwork for japan to get closer with russia by solving the kuril islands dispute

>>281077343
I read it wrong and thought he was the one against all that

>>281070448
misappropriating funds to pay for an academic conference and giving confidential info about russo-japanese relations to some businessmen, which I guess was interpreted as insider trading

>>281028525
>>281028543
what a retarded conversation, he's only asked about shit you'd find on an ID
what's the fucking point? if any government worker asks me about my astrological sign i will fucking flip
what's next? a personality test result? ass or boob man? my spirit animal?

>>281028579
>>281028599
>>281028608
>>281028627
Now that's a good friend to have as a drinking buddy, a rare sight to see. I like these fun side characters.

>>281078753
>what's the fucking point?
It literally says at the end:
>It wasn't until later that I learned that making prisoners answer rapid-fire questions was a way to determine whether or not they are lying.
The questions are just to gauge the person's behavior.

>>281078753
>i will fucking flip
And you'll get beaten for your trouble, since prison guards are psychos.

>>281078944
>to determine whether or not they are lying
my point is that the questions shouldn't be basic shit you find on an ID card, who would lie about their name, birthday and home address, especially as a government staff?
the cat and marriage thing was useless. the astrological crap are non questions, i never bothered learning about those and i happen to know my sign because girls mention it, otherwise i'd never know. so what happens if you say "i don't know" to those random questions?

>>281075371
It's just muscle memory I guess

>>281079048
I won't claim to at all speak for everyone, but I have a habit of saying random lies sometimes because I hate innane questioning when it's done too much
I might say I had chicken sandwiches for lunch instead of leftovers, bullshit like that

>>281031589
What's the QRD on this japan russian thing? I didn't expect an actual historical/political story

>>281079048
They're asking basic questions you'd be fine with answering, so you get used to answering immediately, and truthfully, when a guard asks you something serious later on.

>>281060663
I still don't understand what the fuck is going on and why is that a problem

>>281082532
He was dishonourable and must now be killed

>>281083364
I mean how's revealing such information to america leads to him being the Rasputin of japan?
am I missing context? politics is so garbage

>>281084407
You know what would be a great way to find out? Reading the manga that's being dumped

>>281084407
You see these boxes? They imply that it will be explained later on, anon.

>>281084823
>spilling tea

>>281072709
All I did was post a Yuri Bezmenov lecture in a yuri thread. Jannies are the thinnest-skinned, no fun allowed faggots imaginable lmao.

Where the FUCK is OP

>>281086451
Opp

Chapter 3: A Spy by Trade

Done. The battle is on.
Where do you hide your money?
See you tomorrow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS5_EQgbuLc

>>281088166
Thanks, OP.

>>281087759
I feel like I'm missing some context here. What exactly is the difference between "Career" and "Non-career" diplomats?

>>281088268
Mostly the chances of being promoted, I guess.

>>281087759
You think they'd be a little less useless

>>281087986
Feels like an error to have outbursts like this
Unless it's part of his genius spying

>>281088001
>dojinsha university
Do you think they have a stand in comiket?

>>281088142
Now that's just unfair

>>281088166
Thanks OP
Money?

>>281089686
basically they went through diplomat school and are expected to climb up their careers, meanwhile Yuki joined after taking an exam and from an unrelated university to help with his studies of the USSR

>>281030761
Some people don’t even think he was real

>>281090734
Fascinating
Expand

>>281088268
In the USA a career diplomat is someone who has qualifications and experience, a non-career diplomat is either a political appointment, or someone hired based on their expertise in a specific field.

>>281090752
That he was a bolshevik invention you know how they make up stories

>>281088166
Thanks OP
>Where do you hide your money?
Behind you

>>281087759
I wish I could get caught in a KGB honey trap

>>281088166
Thanks anon
>Where do you hide your money?
In many places

>>281091763
But you would die

>>281027961 (OP)
dairy

>>281092770
of what?

>>281088166
Thanks OP
Is this going to turn into some horror manga eventually, or it will remain as a politic manga?

>>281094238
Politics are already horrifying

>>281028249
>>281028268
>we need your seal
>you don't get to use a seal
I can't tell if this is supposed to be a some accurate depiction of Japanese bureaucracy, a slight parody, or an extreme parody.

>>281093627
ligma

I have to confess that when I heard the story was called Rasputin I thought it was going to be a biography of the actual Rasputin instead of a Japanese guy

>>281027961 (OP)
bu

>>281097026
Given the title I was expecting a spin-off of Moriarty the Patriot

>>281041699
Looks cool

>>281095262
give him the stick
DON'T GIVE HIM THE STICK

>>281093627
Of sex

>>281027961 (OP)
patriots will win

>>281099917
I accept my fate. I'll take this one for the team.

>>281094702
What?

>>281095262
It's a humiliation ritual

>>281100752
NTA but I can see it, a very japanese way of doing it

>>281097026
I thought roughly the same thing. I suppose I should've known better.

>>281027961 (OP)
dying

>>281087759
I like to think I’m immune to honeypots.

>>281102192
So does everyone

>>281102301
Yeah, but I actually am.

So is this going to culminate in the main guy having his penis pickled and put on display? Because anything other than that will be a let down

>>281102301
NTA but if a woman, never mind an attractive one, started talking to me out of nowhere my assumption wouldn't be "she thinks I'm hot and wants my babies" it would be "she thinks I'm not going to be missed and wants my kidneys"

>>281102694
kek I doubt it anon but I trust Ito will figure something out

>>281101932
living!

>>281088166
Thank you, OP I hide it in the wallets of other people

>>281027961 (OP)
scoundrel man

>>281090769
That explains a lot.

>>281102694
Double pare spread of his penis

>>281105819
I'm looking forward to it.

>>281027961 (OP)
made our day

>>281098366
Same

>>281098366
Now that seems unlikely for Ito

>>281027961 (OP)
Appreciated

>>281094238
The only horror we´re facing in this one is politics, arguable more of a fucked up mess than anything eldritch.

Spoon?

really enjoying this one, politics are frightening
>also

Chapter 4: The Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Third Secretary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara

>>281117934
fucking lol

>>281118070
happy handshake

>>281118112
it's that dude!

Done. Mamoru is loyal like a samurai to his lord.
How many jews have you saved?
See you tomorrow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzE32ChEp24

>>281118247
Thanks, OP.

>>281118070
What a savvy and mature answer

>>281118247
Thanks OP
It'll be in the negatives, when I'm king of the world

>>281118247
Thanks OP.

>>281118247
Is this manga about saving joos and how joos always win or something?

>>281118247
is that how the vending machine isekai starts

>>281118247
Thanks OP. Is the horror in this manga the japanese justice system?

>>281118219
How come he still gets to wear his own fancy clothes?

>>281117899
Russia led itself to that collapse back then pretty well with or without Rasputin and his extra long wiener frankly.

>>281117990
>>281118015

Dunno, seems like a cool guy to me. I would put my trust into his innocence

>>281118141
Would be based if they weren't Jews

>>281118247
Thanks OP
>How many jews have you saved?
Zero

>>281118247
this manga doesn't really feel like Ito so far but once in a while you get a spooky vending machine panel and it's like "Oh right"

>>281118247
Thanks anon
>How many jews have you saved?
Zero

>>281121354
>>281122432
Why zero?

>>281028525
yon

>>281117899
>Actually, my nickname is Rasputin because of my huge cock.
Alternatively
>Actually, my nickname is Rasputin as an ironic joke because of my tiny cock.
Whichever one is more applicable.

>>281027961 (OP)
cool

>>281120121
Still in investigation, I guess

>>281118247
Thanks OP
I hope he gets away with this

>>281124061
cute

>>281118232
>They'll press you until you've become a vending machine
I swear if this becomes an isekai