Requiem Vampire Knight 11: The Evil Empire

Despite new public awareness and the statue of British slave trader Edward Colston being thrown into the dock, Britain still behaves like the imperial overlord it once was.

Volume 12: Dead Love includes a full-on critique of the British Empire referred to in Hell as Dystopia.

Not only are the Dystopians in league with the Vatican to provide a papal pipeline of holy water from Earth to Resurrection, but many of Britain’s past crimes are documented in this episode, and explain why there is a special and well-deserved place in Hell for all concerned.

A brief reminder of some of the crimes of the Evil Empire: Palmerston selling opium to the Chinese. ‘Because if we don’t sell them drugs, someone else will.’ Classic Dystopian logic, and hence why they control the Black Opium trade on Resurrection. The genocide of the Great Hunger in Ireland, followed by other genocides such as in India; winning a war against insurgents in Malaya, which acted as a role model for the Americans in the Vietnam conflict. Cecil Rhodes creating a secret society that would instigate World War One, which in turn led to World War Two.

Somehow, despite new public awareness and protest, despite the statue of British slave trader Edward Colston being thrown into the dock and similar icons of imperialism rejected, Britain still seems to behave like the imperial overlord it once was. Hence its support of Israel, with weaponry flown from its sovereign (!!) air base in Cyprus and, behind the scenes, directing Zelensky with the war in the Ukraine.