THE SILVER CASE: Killing the Past with Kusabi Tetsugoro [redux]
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2024
- This is a remake of a video that originally went live in January 2021. What’s the deal with Kusabi Tetsugoro, and what does that tell us about The Silver Case’s messaging? Answering these type of questions led me to make this video. I hope you find it engaging. If you wish to point out some mistake or alternative reading, though, please be civil.
My Twitter: / mackerelphones
My website: mackerelphones.com
Also a thanks to Nic Freeman ( / nicrnack ) for his assistance with "Facts Behind the 'Truth,'" which I struggled to keep short enough, and to Cullen Black ( / drcullenphd ) for giving the video a pass to make sure I hadn't left any editing mistakes in it.
0:00:00 Intro, and All Copaganda Is Bad
0:09:06 Meet Kusabi
0:11:22 Old-Fashioned Detective
0:31:33 Backstory
0:44:41 Adjudication
1:07:44 Tetsu in a New Millennium
1:18:34 Facts Behind the "Truth"
1:28:29 Ending: Still an Authoritarian Brute?
Natividad's excellent drawings:
“Sumio, Tetsu, the Stakeout”
“Past, present and future”
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/ inafieldofwhitelilies
www.pixiv.net/en/users/28538781
ko-fi.com/yummy_lammy
Additional footage:
Killer is Dead - Gigolo Mode 2
omegaevolution
• Killer is Dead - Gigol...
【1997年】神戸連続児童殺傷事件中継妨害
Uploaded by Jet Stream
www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1571...
懐かしいＮＨＫニュース グリコ森永事件
Uploaded by Erts Hotes
• 懐かしいＮＨＫニュース グリコ森永事件
Making Tools and Splitting a Rock
FinnCrafted
• Making Tools and Split...
37 - 東アジア反日武装戦線 - 1974&1975
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• 37 - 東アジア反日武装戦線 - 1974...
How Norway’s Prisons Are Different From America’s
NowThis News
• How Norway's Prisons A...
The Communes of Rojava
Neighbor Democracy
• The Communes of Rojava...
Audio:
record scratch.wav
luffy
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CC BY 3.0
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“The Silver Case”
“Reminiscences”
“Neutral”
“Tearoom”
“Baian Sayaka”
“Kusabi”
“Cauliflower”
“Resolution”
“Tokio AM”
“Moon”
“Disappearance”
“Kokusai Building”
“Uehara Kamui”
“Kill the Past”
“24 Modern”
The Silver Case
Masafumi Takada
Silver Case unreleased tracks uploaded to RUclips by Placebo: • The Silver Case: Unrel...
“Main Theme”
Moonlight Syndrome
Masafumi Takada
“Someone to watch over me”
Flower, Sun, and Rain
Masafumi Takada
“Spectrum”
“LifeCut”
Akira Yamaoka
“Conspiracy”
The 25th Ward: The Silver Case: The Soundtrack
Akira Yamaoka
“Silver2018 TKD Remix”
The 25th Ward: The Silver Case: The Soundtrack
Masafumi Takada
“EVEN”
The 25th Ward: The Silver Case: The Soundtrack
Erika Ito
25th Ward original mobile soundtrack
Uploaded to RUclips by cj iwakura
• The Silver Case: Ward ...
“Local Forecast - Elevator”
Kevin MacLeod
Local Forecast Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Pictures:
Photo of George Floyd mural
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Breonna Taylor photo
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Michael Brown photo
storycorps.org/stories/michae...
Eric Garner photo
www.nyclu.org/en/news/four-ye...
Blood on sidewalk
Garrison Davis
/ 1282178674683310081
Suda photo
/ 1
Ezaki Katsuhisa photo
www.glico.com/global/about/me...
Scan of Glico case newspaper
www.themonsterwith21faces.com...
Fiend with Twenty Faces
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Tokkō searching demonstrator photo
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Utah Phillips photo
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Police box photo
loc.gov/pictures/resource/hec....
Due to RUclips character limits, I will post the rest of the "credits" in the comment section. 
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This is a revised re-upload of a video I originally posted on 12 January 2021. I had various issues with the original, which you can read about on my website if you like: mackerelphones.com/2021/08/06/self-criticism-killing-the-past-with-kusabi-tetsugoro/
It is my hope that this remake, while mostly identical, will not be as embarrassing as the original.
My Twitter: twitter.com/MackerelPhones
Here's the rest of my "credits," which the video description isn't roomy enough to fit:
Research:
“The Silver Case HD Completes the 17 Year Localization of an Iconic Videogame Trilogy”
Gareth Damien Martin
14 July 2016
killscreen.com/previously/articles/silver-case-hd-completes-17-year-localization-iconic-videogame-trilogy/
“The stray dogs of The Silver Case”
Gareth Damian Martin
23 April 2017
www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-04-14-the-stray-dogs-of-the-silver-case
“Suda51 on Sports, Serial Killers, and ‘The Silver Case’”
Steve Haske
17 October 2016
www.inverse.com/article/22320-goichi-suda-suda51-interview-silver-case-killer-7
“Silver Case Documentary”
PLAYISM
ruclips.net/video/kLgQbDtBSp4/видео.html
Minamata disease stories:
“Japanese Industrial Pollution and Environmental Injustice” in Transnational Japan in the Global Environment
Simon Avenell
2017
www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctt1wn0qwk.6
“W. Eugene Smith’s Warning to the World”
Alexandra Genova
14 April 2019
www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/health/w-eugene-smith-minamata-warning-to-the-world/
“Aging Minamata disease victims continue to convey lessons”
Takuya Okamoto
30 December 2017
english.kyodonews.net/news/2017/12/757254cd2c65-feature-aging-minamata-disease-victims-continue-to-convey-lessons.html
“The History and the Present of Minamata Disease”
Noriyuki Hachiya
2006
www.med.or.jp/english/pdf/2006_03/112_118.pdf
Video of Sakamoto Shinobu in 2017:
ruclips.net/video/nN8c98aFQJ4/видео.html
“Environmental Health in Japan - A Retrospective and Prospective Review”
K. Tsuchiya
1987
www.jstor.org/stable/26720344?seq=1
Minamata: The Victims and Their World
Tsuchimoto Noriaki, 1971
Other research:
“Chief removes Punisher emblem”
Fernando Alfonso III
www.kentucky.com/news/state/article134722264.html
“August 30th, 1974: The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Headquarters Bombing”
William Andrews
30 August 2014
throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com/2014/08/30/east-asia-anti-japan-armed-front-mitsubishi-bombing/
(This guy doesn’t cite any sources, best I can tell, though! Times like these I wish I had studied Japanese much, much harder, so I could thoroughly look up the subject in that language.)
“Police abolition and other revolutionary lessons from Rojava”
Hawzhin Azeez
6 June 2020
roarmag.org/essays/police-abolition-and-other-revolutionary-lessons-from-rojava/
“Tracking the Mystery Man with the 21 Faces”
Marilyn Ivy
1996
www.jstor.org/stable/1344076
“Not just ‘a few bad apples’”
Alexi Jones and Wendy Sawyer
5 June 2020
www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/
「うるさい、静かにしろ！」 入管施設「制圧」の実態 映像入手
Kamito Asako
13 February 2022
mainichi.jp/articles/20220211/k00/00m/040/249000c
“Death row inmate apologizes to victims of 1974 bombing”
Kyodo News International (no author name given?)
30 August 1999
www.thefreelibrary.com/Death+row+inmate+apologizes+to+victims+of+1974+bombing.-a055895554
“Mangaaka Power Figure”
The Met
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/320053
神戸・須磨の連続児童殺傷事件、大津いじめ自殺事件、川崎
Ogawa Ichi
14 April 2019
mainichi.jp/articles/20190409/mog/00m/040/008000c
“Japan Holds Anti-Racism Rally”
Thisanka Siripala
8 June 2020
thediplomat.com/2020/06/japan-holds-anti-racism-rally-protesting-homegrown-police-brutality-in-solidarity-with-black-lives-matter/
“Sentenced to Serving the Good Life in Norway”
William Lee Adams
12 July 2010
content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2000920,00.html
“Section 1. The History of the Police” in Policing: A Text/Reader
Carol A. Archbold
October 2012
www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/50819_ch_1.pdf
“Power Figure (Kongo peoples)”
Khan Academy
www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/africa-apah/central-africa-apah/a/nkisi-nkondi
14-Year-Old Arrested in Japan for Brutal Slaying of a Child
Nicholas D. Kristof
29 June 1997
www.nytimes.com/1997/06/29/world/14-year-old-arrested-in-japan-for-the-brutal-slaying-of-a-child.html
少年A「ショックレスハンマーと狂気の部屋」
Matsui Kiyoko
August 1 2019
president.jp/articles/-/29519.html
“History of Urban Police”
Eric H. Monkkonen
1992
www.jstor.com/stable/1147625
“Kobe murderer writes ambiguously of regret and pleasure from 1997 child killings”
Osaki Tomohiro
10 June 2015
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/10/national/crime-legal/kobe-murderer-writes-ambiguously-regret-pleasure-1997-child-killings/
“The History of Policing in the United States”
Gary Potte
2013
plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/history-policing-united-states-part-1
“How a massacre of Algerians in Paris was covered up”
Ahmed Rouaba
17 October 2021
www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58927939
“The Price of Coal, Part 1,” 30 September 2016
“The Price of Coal, Part 2,” 31 October 2016
Ron Soodalter
www.kentuckymonthly.com/culture/history/the-price-of-coal/
www.kentuckymonthly.com/culture/history/the-price-of-coal_1/
“Protestors hit Tokyo and Osaka streets”
Ryusei Takahashi and Eric Johnston
7 June 2020
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/06/07/national/protests-rallies-race-police-brutality-tokyo-japan/
“The Long Path to Reparations for the Survivors of Chicago Police Torture”
G. Flint Taylor
2016
scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1136&context=njlsp
Japanese Police State
Louise Tipton
1990
www.bloomsbury.com/us/japanese-police-state-9781780939742/
“Accused Torturer Jon Burge Died Last Week”
Micah Uetricht
2018
theintercept.com/2018/09/25/jon-burge-chicago-police-torture/
“「思想犯」にされた日々 95歳と96歳 治安維持法を語る”
13 September 2017
news.yahoo.co.jp/feature/741
do you still intend on doing the other videos on the silver case and other kill the past games?
@@claymoregwen1276 Since he stated he does in the video and has said nothing to contradict that statement, the answer is yes.
fun fact, in the european version of FSR instead of saying "he was batting for the other team, if you know what i mean" tokio says "This guy, he was gay."
AYO FR?
This is the best analysis on The Silver Case, and probably on Suda's work as a whole, I've seen yet. Most videos tend to focus on the more absurdist aspect of Suda's work, ignoring the amount of detail and care that went into building these games' narratives and characters. Kusabi is an amazing character, and analysing his development throught the story to showcase the game's still relevant themes was genius. Thank you for making this fantastic video!
This is Still one of my favorite videos ever on The Silver Case. Thanks for the video I look forward to the article and the next video.
This is a fantastic video! I especially enjoyed the research that went into the historical aspects that influenced the story elements - it's the kind of thing that is really easy to miss if you don't actually live in Japan, and understanding some of the inspirations for the story really puts a lot of it in a new perspective.
I figured Suda51 would be a bit more...I dunno, manic? than he seemed in the interview footage. Considering the kind of games he makes he seems to just be a regular if slightly enthusiastic dude with an enthralling appreciation of the classics and a deep need to make things no one else has ever seen before.
i remembered this video a few months ago and went to rewatch, only to see it was gone. glad to see you uploaded it again, i've read your blogpost and appreciate how insightful it is -- you addressed most issues i remember i had with it. really solid analysis, great work! excited to see what you do next
Amazing work! Easily the best silver case vid out there.
I'd have to disagree with what you said about sexist undertones, I wouldn't really say they're undertones and I wouldn't say that the game is painting them in a good light either, generally the 3 younger members of the HCU are seen to be as the most competent of the unit. I'm not saying that it's a great example but I would definitely say that the way hachisuka is treated isn't supposed to be viewed as understandable or okay. I've not got long into the video but I wanted to bring this up in case I forgot
Yeah, I feel the same. I'm a woman, in love with this game, and before I had even played it I was very surprised to see the sexism presented the way it was and...making sense, not inhibiting my appreciation unlike many many many(more like every-other) games. I was expecting something crude or lowbrow as the outlandish example he presented in No Mo Heroes and was left instead with a sense of "Ah, makes sense really, the game is obviously making clear these men sound ludicrous and shitty, and the few female characters present are amazing"(least to me. I could easily say my most favourite character other than Sumio is Ayame).
I agree. As a east-asian woman.
By the way, according to Suda in a few interviews in 2013 and 2014, he didn't have a hand in Killer is Dead's dating sim shit; his vision of Gigolo Mode was a lot different and not fan-servicey sexualized shit, but he was pressured into it by the producers Yoshimi Yasuda and Hideyuki Shin. I think when people look at the examples of distasteful things in a Suda51 game, they always tie it back to Grasshopper and Suda himself, but they never really research beyond that point or understand the different power dynamics at play, and I want to clear up that I do not have a big issue with sexual content in video games; this is a mature-rated game after all, but I feel like it does deviate from the main focus of Killer is Dead and is unnecessarily implemented in a way that makes it seem like pandering to a different audience. I suggest people watch Ghenry Perez's video on Killer is Dead; he talks about the development history and clears up some of the murky shit that happens in GH games.
Your works that focus on Suda-51's work are my favorite things you do. Please continue with more. It's criminal how little his games (other than Killer7 and No More Heroes) are talked about.
I still have that other Silver Case vid planned, no worries
And also a few other ideas. If only having an idea was all it took to execute it though, eh
@@mackerelphones I feel you.
I also read your self-critique essay and was very impressed by your intense care for the quality of your work and your willingness and ability to catch and correct your wrongness. I'm very glad that you didn't simply delete the video, but fixed it and uploaded an improved version. To not have your commentary on Suda's games would be a sad detriment to the space of creative analysis. The world is better with your work in it.
oh nice, a reupload. gonna watch this again
Very good talking topic. Bringing historical events that influenced the story was also very interesting.
As a citizen of Russia, I absolutely resonate with the topic that was touched upon in the video. A police state and power in the hands of a limited group of people leads to disasters and the destruction of people's lives. This is one of the best videos I've seen on The Silver Case. Thank you for it!
I doubt that Ryo is a Shelter kid. He's a high-schooler, when all the Shelter kids in their late 20s. Timeline doesn't add up, unless you wanna retcon old game. I think it's more of having that criminal power erupted from Mithra confrontation. But that's a different topic altogether.
would love to see a video on the 25th ward
Excellent video. Though I have only played the Kill The Past games at the start of this year, this series is on my mind all the time, so I was quite interested in hearing the perspective of another person on one of its - in my opinion - best characters.
Has the written essay you mentioned been published to your website yet?
To be as fair as possible, they didn't like the Gigolo mode either
Great
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It should be Chizuru killed Morikawa. The implications are clear enough in the game. Chizuru appeared behind Morikawa and killed him, Tetsu took out his gun to protect Morikawa but it's too late.
When it comes to older games like this you have to realize the time period it was made and have that mindset going in, you'll enjoy the game more. I was worried they were going to censor the more colorful language this game has and thank the stars they didn't change anything. I personally find it insulting to change the "problematic" dialog of any media, the writer obviously wanted a characters personality to be portrayed a certain way and removes or even ruins the personality of a character.
Is there a reason why the No More Heroes series sits at a maybe in terms of having to do with KLP?
Mainly because when I originally heard of KTP I never saw No More Heroes included, even though now most fans probably would include them since Uehara and the 25th Ward etc. turn up in the newest ones
@@mackerelphones yea im trying to do a presentation on the NMH series and right now im stuck before 3 because I can explain some things but others I wanna confirm fully before making any statements. Great vid btw
Re-upload?
Yeeep