Talk:Golden Wind (Episode)/@comment-28205497-20181023081536/@comment-27659575-20181023110158

Well aren't you cute.

I'm gonna explain it to you. Golden Wind was published in the mid 90s. It was made with a mid 90s readership in mind. And in the early 90s, Italy and the mafia made the news a lot.

High profile judges being assassinated, bombings of touristic spots, the special antimafia organization was trying to tackle a group that made 12.5% of Italy's money and had men in their pockets at every level of society; and that group fought really hard. In 1995, you'd have to live under a rock if you didn't know Italy was synonymous with organized crime. And even with the arrest of the big boss of Cosa Nostra in Italy, it was known that the mafia merely adopted an invisibility policy, not causing trouble but still being there.

With that in mind, Araki of course only needed to describe the situation a bit, the readership would get it. Your criticism is invalid.