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the more i read this the more impressed i am by it. i love the way that the author doesn't trauma dump all the necessary characters' backstories in one-go, and leaves a lot up to plot-reveal or gradual revelations from other characters. i also love how these moments are often used to introduce new characters in a way that expose how culturally ingrained they are in this world, even if they're new to us. like they feel like real characters who have their own personal life in this world, and since we don't have their full story or picture and we often have to piece together a fraction of their backstory through the different perspectives of other characters who know them, they feel like real people to even the audience.
i think this immersion also applies to the story's setting, as well. like the way the culture, laws, and politics aren't info-dumped in a couple panels or suddenly exposed to us and instead scattered throughout the story so we get the info we need to understand what we already know, makes it feel like a real world with real people. because a real world is always going to feel so much bigger than one person, so it makes sense how we're learning more about its cohesive culture and rules gradually through the characters' interaction with it, rather than having a large exposition about how it works like there's some random narrator or god telling us, a separate third-party, about this place. like it feels like a culture and setting whose existence doesn't revolve around the audience perceiving it, and can be a real place that functions on its own with or without the readers. idk if this makes sense, but it feels like we know as much about the world as the characters we follow do, which i think is hard to do given how many characters of different sides and perspectives we're following so far. like i think many authors who create amazing characters, settings, and backstories, don't have the ability to plan ahead and properly introduce it to the audience without making it feel like they're all creations of another human (LOL GEGE,,, JJK IM LOOKING AT YOU). like all those authors have crazy creativity and imagination, just no writing skills lol. meanwhile i think the author of sakamoto days has both, and idk i just think it's an amazing story lmao. bc not only is it so well-written, it's pretty entertaining, as well. and the artsyle is SO good for its plot: like the action scenes are AMAZING.