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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

He'd describe it as hell because to him, it was. There's no discrepancy. I wasn't trying to say he was manipulating Takeru or anything. The writers didn't just make up what the Ganma world is like later on. Everything you see in that first arc is consistent with what you see later. Makoto's relationship with Alain, all of Javert's dialogue, Makoto even having a Ghost Driver; Yurusen mentions early on the reason Gramps doesn't show up half the time is because he's "busy", wonder what that could mean?

I should rephrase a little bit here. Even if the Ganma World isn't as bad as Makoto's description would lead us to believe, for him it was that bad and it's a crucial piece of his character development, so the audience should at least feel that way.


But then we come to find out that what makes the Ganma World really suck is that it used to be a beautiful place, but then the Ganma had to watch the world go to shit as their dreams of this society started to be crushed more and more (mostly because Adonis had this naive notion of death and suffering being a thing that should never happen). That's not something that Makoto or Kanon got the chance to really experience and not long after they arrived, they had people taking care of them and offering them their friendship. Sure, they were separated from friends and family, but that's not a reason to describe the Ganma World itself as "hell".

You could argue that the general state of decay is what caused Makoto to describe it like that, but when people talk about Hell, they usually refer to actual pain and suffering, not just a red sky.