[Kurona]

Kiwami I get what you’re saying here, and in a vacuum I agree with it, but I still highly doubt this was influenced by BLM. The way Humagears were set up, I think a rights protest like this was ALWAYS going to happen; and they couldn’t really predict what was happening now 2 years ago.

I would more likely look towards the multiple protests Japan itself has, for instance there’s a lot of protests against the government; protests in favour of immigrants’ rights; protests in favour of womens’ rights; etc. It’s no small wonder a japenese drama would do a theme of protests and minorities and we’ve seen it before.

In my mind though, I think what they were trying to go for was general unrest in the world than any particular issue. Since at least 2016 the world’s been wrapped up in divisive political issue after divisive political issue, and I feel both Build and Zero-One decided to focus on that; to varying degrees of success. Zero-One didn’t need one more protest to encourage it to write about this when it’s been an everpresent reality for half a decade.