Yeah, but is a manga that is sensationalized this way the right medium though?
It doesn't help that a sizable amount of the Japanese manga-sphere are racist against Chinese people.
I'm looking at that one scan on ANN and I go "hmm.does this look like a racist caricature to me?"
I don't know, This whole thing just feels uncomfortable
Regarding Chinese descendants in other countries. I won't pretend to know how it is in every Chinese diaspora. I know there's at least some mainland supporters in HongKong, and that's unfortunate.
But I can say the ones in Indonesia certainly know mainland China doesn't care for them, and have been long divorced from it culturally. And it doesn't help they had to culturally purge a lot of their Chinese roots after the "failed communist coup". (which weren't done by any Chinese)
Speaking of which, they too have been a victim of ethnic targeted violence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discri...se_Indonesians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_19...s_of_Indonesia
But yeah, I get your point. But as someone who has personally lived in Indonesia and seeing all the misery happening, it strikes a personal chord to me.
Especially since populist nationalisism is making a comeback globally.
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