Before you give out such advice, first learn to follow it yourself. However, then I will lose the opportunity to read such ridiculous insults and provocations at the elementary school level. You don’t even know that mobilization exists only in Ukraine and you actually joked about the death of Ukrainian soldiers.
IMO an author can do whatever the hell they want but it sure takes some cognitive dissonance to draw this manga and be an "outspoken liberal" at the same time, though I can't tell what that means in Japan. Since the USA have tainted that word beyond recognition. Now that you say it, I faintly remember some awkward, weird and out of place politics that he added into this story a few times though.
He is a member of the Liberal Party of Japan and, if I'm not mistaken, he even planned to work in this direction when the manga went on an indefinite hiatus. So I assumed it didn't work out if he went back to the manga. He also previously illustrated a comedic political manga in the past, from which the Akira character was taken with some developmental changes (?), which once fueled speculation about the connection between the two manga (in that manga Akira is already an adult woman and works as a deputy, while here she is just about to start political career). I don't follow Japanese politics, so I can't say what it means to "be a liberal" in Japan. But judging by his political retweets and the liberal initiatives I've ever heard of in Japanese life, it seems like typical US-inspired politics.
Well he better stick to manga then, that's better for everyone involved. The US leftis would rip him apart and ban his manga in two seconds, I wonder if he's even aware of that. I'm always amazed how the whole world is witnessing to the ongoing self-destruction of the American society ( in slow-motion) and still figures " hey, maybe we should try their form of leftism"
In the past, an American feminist living in Japan tried to accuse him of promoting pedophilia due to the first sex scene with Beruko, to which Rui succinctly accused her of attacking his art. Without any political background. But without knowing him personally and without reading any of his interviews other than tweets or notes on the original volumes of the manga, my personal impression is that he is simply an idealist living outside the United States who sees American politics through the American and Japanese mainstream media. Compare with Carol and Tuesday from Shin'ichiro Watanabe, when he moved from being inspired by 80s American culture and Hollywood to representing how he saw modern Western life.
