"Kamo no Negi ni wa Doku ga Aru" is incredibly interesting! Highly recommended to avoid being scammed by multi-level marketing and cults!

"Kamo no Negi ni wa Doku ga Aru" Review: A must-read for students! A masterpiece manga I highly recommend to avoid being scammed by multi-level marketing and cults!

Let me start by saying this.

"This manga is the best! An amazing work has arrived!"

First of all, seeing is believing. You can read the first chapter for free from the link below, so please check it out.

I also learned about this manga through an advertisement, but I was shocked after reading it. And because it was so interesting, I immediately bought all the volumes.

The plot of this manga follows Professor Kamo, an economist, who brilliantly strikes back against "malicious people who prey on the information-vulnerable," and it is incredibly realistic and interesting!

The mechanisms by which people get hooked on multi-level marketing and cults and end up being mind-controlled are also described very carefully; I can only call it masterful.

And in this manga, you can receive various lectures from Professor Kamo, and the academic field that appears there is behavioral economics.

To put it very simply, this can be called "economics based on human behavior." You might think, "Isn't that just what it sounds like?" but while traditional economics assumed that "humans take rational actions to pursue profit," this behavioral economics is a field that exposes the opposite: "how humans end up making irrational choices."

I have also been paying attention to this behavioral economics for a long time, and I have introduced books such as "Misbehaving" by Richard Thaler (Japanese title: "Kodo Keizaigaku no Gyakushu") and "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman (Japanese title: "Fast & Slow") on my blog.

I was excited while reading it, thinking that a manga based on behavioral economics had finally appeared.

Even so, this manga is wonderful...!

It is amazing that it so brilliantly reproduces how the information-vulnerable are being exploited right now. Moreover, the key is that many of those victims are "ordinary people" who are quite close to us.

The reality that those "ordinary people" are being preyed upon by malicious individuals.

Why is it that there is no end to people who get caught up in multi-level marketing and cannot escape, or who get mind-controlled by cult groups?

It is because they do not know that they are the information-vulnerable side that gets scammed. And because they do not know how to deal with it, they are taken advantage of even more.

Being kind, serious, and honest is a good thing.

However, there is a harsh reality that just being that way will only lead to being preyed upon. We must learn and protect ourselves. You can learn such things from this manga.

Especially since I am a monk, I have to think deeply about the problem of cults. As I am a person on the religious side myself, there was a time when I worried about what the difference was between myself and a cult. I talked about that in my article"Aum Shinrikyo, Temples, and Me: Why I, a Jodo Shinshu Monk, Study Dostoevsky", and I think the story of mind control taken up in this work was very sharp.

I am currently working as a part-time lecturer at Hakodate Otani College, and I strongly encourage my students to read books and learn for themselves.

However, the beginning of one's learning journey is actually a dangerous time. If you choose the wrong books to read, there is an unavoidable risk of heading straight toward a cult-like path.

That is precisely why I strongly wish for them to have the ability to pause and ask themselves, "Is this a cult?"

This manga will surely serve as a very useful textbook to protect oneself from such dangers. Do not underestimate it just because it is a manga. It is a truly wonderful textbook.

Also, starting from volume 7, there is a story about a so-called F-rank university, and it really hit home for me! The episode is structured in a way that makes you think about "what learning is," and for me right now, it was content that made me nod until my neck almost snapped. I am completely impressed by this manga for explaining the importance of learning so clearly.

Lastly, this manga proceeds with a thrilling and refreshing story development. Each episode is independent, and Professor Kamo fights against different themes, but Professor Kamo is just too strong. In reality, you might think it's not that easy to defeat them, but let's just accept that as fiction.

As a manga that confronts the realities of the world, "Ushijima the Loan Shark" is also famous, but that manga is too hellish. There are many episodes that are too harsh and hopeless. I think that is also wonderful content that shows the reality of human society, but this "Kamo no Negi ni wa Doku ga Aru" does not have that harshness. You can read it quite lightly.

This was surely something the author intended to create. Learning about society while reading enjoyably is also an important element in attracting readers. I think it can be said that the presence of this overwhelmingly strong Professor Kamo has made the work easier for more people to pick up.

I would definitely like to recommend this manga to those involved in education, and I also strongly, strongly recommend it to all students.

That concludes "'Kamo no Negi ni wa Doku ga Aru' is incredibly interesting! I highly recommend it to avoid being deceived by multi-level marketing and cults!"

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