Me: Daughter, isn’t it weird how every Guild member, when they get the upper hand on a member of the Port Mafia or Agency, they remark how they’re only fighting because it’s a job, and without their job they’d be dead or on the streets? It’s very similar to how in the real world, people take on and stay at unfulfilling jobs, or even jobs that are detrimental to society as a whole, instead of doing what they really want to do. People are forced into these situations and they can find themselves performing morally questionable deeds because the alternative means losing their job, losing the means to support themselves, and could even lead to them losing their lives.

The Guild characters in part represent the modern alienated worker, and in this way offer a critique of the western capitalist mode of production, namely its reliance and insistence on worker alienation and precarity…

Her: Hey Dad, aren’t Chuuya and Dazai so cute and gay together?

Me: Yes.

The show really has something for everyone.