Quote Originally Posted by fireheart View Post
The way it's been depicted in the anime so far isn't realistic to me.
1. Guardian dies while in debt (believable)
2. Government doesn't do anything to put an orphan in an orphanage or foster home (hard to believe)
3. Child doesn't even go to school (according to David75) despite elementary school being compulsory and this doesn't trigger anything in any system (hard to believe)
4. Yakuza tells the child they have to shoulder the debt (believable)
5. Leaves the kid to do whatever he wants (hard to believe/maybe, I don't know)
We don't really know anything about his dad and his involvement with the yakuza.

For all we know, his dad was a transient under the yakuza's thumb just like he is. A homeless person's kid might not even be in the system in the first place. In which case, the government might not even know there's a kid that needed to be taken into custody.