Noli Me Tank in a Mall

Noli Me TangereandEl Filibusterismoare important cultural works that ignited the Philippine Revolution against Spain. They are novels that exposed to the populace the abuses and the injustices of their Spanish colonial rulers, the hypocrisy of their priests, and inherent cruelty of their class structure over the powerless masses.

Unfortunately, they rose up in the middle of the Spanish-American War, one which saw Spain lose most of their overseas colonies and decisively end as a World Power. The war ended in the1898 Treaty of Paris, in which Spain also sold the Philippines to the USA for the sum of twenty million dollars. The revolutionary government was then crushed by the overwhelming military might of the United States and the Philippines turned into a territory. While the Philippines stands as the USA's greatest successes in nation-building, their early occupation left almost one-fifth of the population dead from combat and disease.Jose Rizalwas executed by the Spanish long before knowing what might happen to his country. The world presented within The Noli and the El Fili is therefore stuck frozen in time, forever caught in that moment before a Revolution.Now let's see what happens to this nation if wegive it the Light Novel treatmentandjam the entirety of the Internet into their protagonist's skulland watch him try to fix thingswith his unfortunate tendency to sound like a supervillain.

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Note: The Noli and El Fili have beenpublic domain since 1946. This is completely fair game.