I’M SO IMPRESSED

I’m just SO IMPRESSED by the delivery of this story.
Normally, in manga depicting black (especially African) people they’re depicted like a joke.
They’re always seen as savages, have European features/waaaaay overly exaggerated features (except for the skin tone), have no agency over the language, and are generally confused but inticing because of their exoticism.
This story is really impressive. He is drawn with so much care and detail (even his body, isn’t super muscular, but just looks real and normal). And his character seems like a ‘real’ character with dimensions, not just an exotic foreigner lusting over a Japanese. His culture isn’t treated like a joke, and he is written as a kind and intelligent character My only criticism is tha afrotextured hair is NOT like that, lol.
I also apriciate that the author mentioned a LGBTQ movie in Kenya. Though, in reality that movie received much critical acclaim overseas (nominated for an Oscar, I think) it was unfortunately banned in Kenya.
It’s very obvious that a lot of care and detail has gone into this, with a huge deal of respect. We should be holding other manga’s up to this standard.