Imagine in 5 years if this arc gets animated, the mass refusal of weebs to recognize the politics behind it.

It's been so heavy for a while, and I love it. Subtlety is for writers that are cowards.

::: spoiler spoilers for parts 1 and 2 What she is doing here is a callback to Makima having the exact same contract with the Prime Minister of Japan to have Japanese citizens "shoulder the burden of her deaths" (die in her place). There are valid criticisms to be made of Fujimoto, but I believe he is completely sincere at least in his opposition to militarily-enforced imperialism as well as nuclear warfare and threats thereof (several chapters ago the US reinvented nukes after they were erased from history and we only know this because they nuked the Soviets; the whole geopolitical plot of CSM 1 is an allegory for nuclear proliferation -- which Japan is portrayed as heavily complicit in -- etc.)

It’s a fantastic story. I would definitely recommend.