
That panel that says “is it a gang?!” Felt kind of weirdly racist. Eric is clearly intended as rich white American so the fact that he’s this idealized white guy (“cashman”)makes it worse. Non Japanese poc usually get paid dust, black/african people getting racist caricatures and brown(particularly middle eastern) getting odd bastardized depictions in manga. The artist knows what poc look like. Black people are not even in it and can’t just read it without being seen as criminals.
I think it’s so funny he was like “I’m gonna sue!” And then immediately “actually here are the building blocks for you to get into bl we can be friends”