I really question the mental states of these kinds of artists....
The POV of it all got me thinking: what if the author saw someone being bullied and this is how they rationalized doing nothing and getting turned-on from watching their classmates suffer?
That judgement felt unfair until I saw people saying this was the author of that "alien" story, where one of the core premises was: helping other people is (basically) foolish and pointless.
Thinking about it even MORE, this same author also did a one-shot where he turned a "victim" of human trafficking into a sock puppet talking about the benefits slavery, and how much money an unemployed person could make opening their legs as a "slave." (I have no clue what bro thinks a slave is 😳).
So, you were right to question it. There's a strong body of evidence suggesting this author needs either therapy or an exorcism. Every minute he spends making these comics is, at least, a minute he's not terrorizing the streets.
Why ppl surprised? Look at the history. Japanese did really fked up things in WW2 like Unit 731, Nanjin Mascaraed and there are Japanese out there denying these war crimes committed by Japanese in WW2. Some Japanese even brag about it in the social media.
I think this is every major country where people have access to the internet.
Read this book "The Authoritarians" by Bob Altemeyer. Unfortunately, this personality profile probably just EXISTS within a certain minority of humanity, in any population. They have no moral floor and will deny reality when it comes to atrocities their group has committed, evidence or first-hand participation be damned.