Actually, quite interesting that he phrases things in terms of establlishing his *family* on the throne, not himself. He talks like he’s only doing it for his son. Maybe that’s some internal rationalizing (“I’m totally not selfish, I just play the game better than others, for the glory of my family”)

On the other hand: All that stupidity we see at work here was completely invisible to me on the first read. It just made Iwatani look like an even bigger monster. Seeing it now, one might think it as obvious beforehand what was going to happen, but nope. All these aspects only become really visible once you know how it ends.

(Of course, that raises the question of how Iwatani came into power in the first place. If he inherited it, it stands to reason that he’d see nothing wrong in passing it on to his own son, regardless of whether he’d proven himself worthy of it.)

Could be that that’ just how Iwatani calls Persson in front of his son. But still a very bad idea in this moment. He’s teaching him all the really gritty “grown-up” stuff, exactly the things which most parents would try to avoid their children from noticing exist at all, way before he demonstrates he’s able to handle himself in way less grown-up situations. I really wonder what Iwatani’s youth must have been like that he thinks this was a good idea.