All I Asking For Is My Body, Part I, Dialogue

b.     Who is Makot?  Do you feel sorry for him?  What are your thoughts about him and the way he copes with his parents? 

Makot is was the "gang leader" for Kiyoshi, Nobuyuki and Mitsunobu. They were much younger group then Makoto but they looked up to him a lot. Makot felt comfortable hanging out with those kids rather than kids his own age because kids his own age would make fun of him. They would taunt him for how he acted or the way he talked but Kiyoshi pointed out that they were treating him that way because Makot always had money and they others did not. By hanging out with the younger kids, he never got treated less than, and those kids really looked up to him as a bigger brother. Someone that they can confide with and have a great time with.

Of course it is odd that he never wants to hang out with kids his own age which makes me think of other things as to why he is doing this. Is he doing this because he wants to gain their trust and then manipulate them to do anything he wants in order to continue to get the same benefits as before? i.e. the chow fun, movies, candy etc... Or is he really doing this to get away from something that he does not want to share with others? The only other questionable thing that came up was the fact that his parents were never present most of the time until the very end of this section where you finally meet Makoto's mother for a brief moment.

A lot of things came across the this first section that just made you question the relationship Makot had with this younger kids and made me question just as much as Kiyoshi did to his parents as to why he was not allowed to hang out with Makoto any longer. That just brought back a lot of memories of when I was a child and being told who I could or could not be friends with. My parents never gave me a straight answer but just I could not and that I should respect what they say as they are my parents. I hated that so much but they eventually understood that they can not choose who I can be friends with and I can befriend anyone I wanted to and that I would sooner or later learn if that person would be a good person to have in my life. Maybe that is Kiyoshi's parents are trying to teach him, that Makot is not the greatest person to have as a friend and that he will understand at a later time but for now they are trying to protect him from harm that may be coming his way if he were to continue this friendship.

Also, since Makot's parents weren't properly introduced in the first section, you are left to wonder who exactly they are and what it is that they do that made Kiyoshi's parents comment negatively about them? They did not specify exactly what it was that made Makot's parents bad but just the way that they presented it with such secrecy made you think more and eventually find out for yourself. Since his parents weren't around that much, he probably took advantage of that by having them give him money when he wanted it and befriended those kids so he wont feel alone and do things that he might of wanted to do with his parents. Maybe he was just trying to fill a void for his parents working so much throughout the day. We shall soon find out more...