I was with someone who had to use alcohol to give them the confidence to tell me everything they hated about me and tried to make me feel like I couldn't do anything right as well. To be in a relationship with an emotional, disrespectful, insecure alcoholic was too much for me to deal with.
It's mindblowing to think that Kazakhstan was still known as "Kazakh SSR" when the Strider manga was written. Makes you think about how much the landscape of the world has changed in terms of geopolitics. Also, Strider has a very pro-freedom/anti-global-government message to it. And the OG Kazakh theme has always been one of muh faves. This rendish is spectacular!