Abstract: This article examines how Mayavi , a Malayalam children's comic from Kerala, constructs ideas of crime, justice, and protection by privileging moral resolution over legal process. Through narrative analysis, it shows how wrongdoing is addressed through a specific guardian model in which adults define moral boundaries and act as primary protectors rather than institutions such as police or courts. Mischief and crime are treated differently: childlike pranks invite mild correction, while serious offences are neutralized by Mayavi through magical, extralegal intervention. These narratives reduce justice to moral binaries and marginalize institutional accountability, shaping a worldview in which law remains largely invisible.
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