tbh I kind of shudder to think just how fucked that village in India would be if they didn't have that 11/10 handsome-ass dude repping them living there
The big irony, of course (and probably a good thing he didn't tell her this) is that the garudas are the eternal enemies and natural predators of nagas, and in Sino-Japanese mythology nagas = dragons (they're human-faced cobras in India).
Also, where the hell was that substitute-excavator-level carrying capacity during the festival prep, Ilsela?
Anime art is pretty consistent in that foreigners have to have really defined features. Indians get this kind of look, Europeans a similar, but obviously "White" kind, and then the poor Chinese become Super Asian.