Afro Samurai

The manga series Afro Samurai follows the life sentence of a depressed samurai named Afro, who is on a mission to penalize his fathers close. After avouching the death of his own father, Afro no longer brave outd a prevalent life. Instead, exclusively he wanted to do was view and kill legal expert, the man who killed his father and in additionk the numeral One Headband. Interestingly, the past that brought him pain and aversion had only given him the strength to stand on his life. As a kid, he killed bothone who stepped in his way of avenging his fathers death.Even though Afro is insolent and strong enough to continue the only(a) and dangerous journey, he still confront accidental injury and painful flashbacks. Through Afro Samurai, we leave behind be suitable to examine the mental disorders and officiates of holding by creating an outcome ground on his tiddlerhood experiences. At a very young age, Afro had to helplessly witness Justice cut off his public ad dress systems spot. Tears fell drink on his face as the head was rolling over to him. Normally, if a child experiences such thing, he/she wouldve run away. How of all time, Afro in effect(p) stood in that respect with his eyes wide open.It was too cruel and traumatic for him to even oppose with the accompaniment. The feeling of fear, helplessness and anger had go forth a mental illness in Afro. Without shaking, he picked up the number 2 headband and his dads head. Carrying them in his bag, he set off to seek retaliation from Justice. He went crazy and killed hoi polloi cruelly even though he was solely a kid. Based on what cash in ones chipsed to Afro when he was young, I diagnose that he strength suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (posttraumatic stress disorder). posttraumatic stress disorder is an fretfulness disorder caused by experiencing life- death situation, or witnessing out-of-control events.There be three types of PTSD symptoms peeping reminiscence, avoidance/numbing, and increased anxiety or sensational arousal. Afro t displaceed to show nigh symptoms that are related to avoidance and intrusive holding. composition watching the first half(a) of the second episode, I nonice that Afro prefers not to talk. Lemonade, he replies shortly to the lady in the bar. Plus, he doesnt join any conversation with Ninja Ninja who most of the eon duologue endlessly. Afro definitely has emotional numbing as if he doesnt care most anything except revenge. Even though, his eyes are filled with sadness andanger, there is exactly any facial expression shown when he is with his friend or when he kills people. On the other hand, Afro also experiences flashback in his residual after he is rescue from a life and death situation. His breath becomes heavier and instantaneous as he dreams about the fully grown casualtys that has happened after his father died such as world chased, humiliated, and beaten up. The flashback comes when the even t tends to happen again. It might be impossible to be cured _or_ healed Afros mental illness since his emotion is numb. However, in order to help him, I need to define what he desires the most.Since he only aims for avenging and killing, it will be attach to change his thinking on his trauma and revenge. Cognitive therapy rat help him think over on the whole situation. With the help of a therapist, he will be able to replace his thoughts with to a greater extent accurate and distress thoughts. What would you do after you kill Justice? , Where are you going to take your life after you success your mission? , Do you think it will be the end after you kill Justice? , etc These questions can be asked to help Afro determine his touchable goal in life.The prognosis for Afros case depends upon the severity and length of time has suffered from PTSD. It will be difficult for Afro to call back since he was very aware when and how the incident happened. The treatment process can be cont inued for years. Afro will be more than bidly to have fewer traumas when he sleeps, and show more emotion. As a human-being, he should be able to live and feel like a normal person. He might be disposed to seek revenge and kill people if he is not cured. Afros memory is mostly filled with his dads death.When he witnessed his dad died, his senses collected info and held those cruel details in receptive memory. From the sensory memory, the information was encoded and hive awayd in functional memory. Since the incident was too traumatic, it became flashbulb memory which was immediately stored in long-term memory. bump than anyone else, Afro knows that this memory cant ever be forgotten and it will resort hotel him for the rest of his life. Even though, it hurt to remember, it was what taught him to be strong and to be cruel to whoever time-tested to harm him.He kills people without a eye blink in his eyes just like how Justice did to his dad. Afro had suffered so much in the past, tho it doesnt mean there is nothing bright in his memory. While he is unconscious after being poisoned and fell down from a cliff, he dreams about the little girl who had saved him in the past. The little girl with her teddy bear bear is probably the only begin in his dark memory. This long-term memory is detectd to working memory as the situation seemed to repeat. Afro tends to act gently to the lady who doesnt only save him but also prompts him of that little girl.Maybe, after all, he is not a psycho killer. Painful memories narrate him to be strong and give him the occasion why he is alive. But, nice memories remind him that morality still exists in this swarthy world. After all, by watching Afro Samurai, Im able to discover more about psychological disorder and function of memory. The movie helps me encode information deeper, store them better in my working memory, and retrieve them more affectively. It also shows me that pain mayhap is not there to destroy people, but to give them the strength to live on and do better.