What is Hayama Akira's ethnicity supposed to be?


Judging from the flashback in episode 23, where Shiomi Jun meets a young
Hayama in a spice market somewhere, I get the sense that Hayama was probably
not born in Japan.

And given that Hayama is

  1. Brown
  2. A master of curries
  3. Apparently a fan of tulsi

I have a sneaking suspicion that he's supposed to be some kind of South Asian.

Am I right? What's his ethnicity supposed to be?




As someone who is from Tamil Nadu, I'd say it's very evident that he really is
from South India. Was extremely surprised to see Kozhi Varutha Curry as one of
his dishes because it's a purely Tamil-based dish. Even in one of the pages in
the manga where they show him living in the slums, I could see a board at the
edge of the panel that had Tamil writing, I think it's enough proof.

