A review by awkwardreader13
Tesla Note Vol. 1 by Kota Sannomiya

2.0

I'm not sure about this. In itself it was fine, there were some funny moments and the art style was nice too. The plot seems a bit overly complex, but all in all it's fine I guess. I only had a problem with the one black character in the story. At first we meet the guy and I'm like "great, the only black character is poor and drunk and steals from others.." then the character was presented as an actually good guy who had a bad time of it because people are racist and because he was grieving. I then thought "oh hey, a commentary on racism, that's pretty good!" but THEN... it flip-flopped again because the main characters saved the black man's son, and suddenly he was like "oh thank you, now I will be able to turn my life around and live clean and stop drinking and provide for my son, and all I needed was you!" and it gave my White Saviour vibes, even though the main characters are Japanese. So maybe white saviourism isn't a thing without the actual white people, but it still felt weird to me.. I realize my whole review is based on a side character but it just... Ergh.