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May 4, 2016 · Mana finds out about Gen’s homelessness but continues coming to Gen to learn chess. Things explode when Gen and Noble spirit Mana away from home so he can join the rest of the Eastern Knights at the chess tournament.
He eventually decides to show up at his brother's house unannounced to take Mana home with him. Mutt (Baz Te Hira), a gang member responsible for breaking in Mana, beats Genesis with a lead pipe.
Father and son both hand off the Obstacle Character Throughline as they challenge Gen's positive mental attitude. Ariki and Mana feel themselves stuck in gang culture without a future to look forward to.
Mar 31, 2016 · If Ariki gets his way, his son and Genesis’s nephew, Mana (James Rolleston), will be “patched” into the gang on his imminent 15th birthday. Genesis, armed with medications and advised to avoid stress, does not condone and cannot handle the group’s casual, brutalizing mayhem.
The director is suggesting that this energy and noise is about to overwhelm Genesis as it comes towards him and up until this point, he has been fairly quiet. When Mana is being patched and robs the home, the boy who is terrified in the corner and the music that it playing.
The yellow dusters highlight genesis with his haND on Mana’s shoulder and the way he is looking out for him and treats him like a son; It shows mana starting to turn away from the gang life and heading towards the light (a brighter future). A close up shows Genesis crying and telling Ariki “it’s gonna be alright”
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Re-watching S1 in excitement for S2 and I realized details around the mana disruption were never revealed in S1. Assuming it’s eventually addressed, I’m hoping to get some vague, not too spoiler-y answers about what it’s purpose was, why it happened, who caused it.
