Drama Queen - Ch. 1 - Who Needs Love When You've Got Rage?

[starbruh]

CHAPTER 2 WHENNN

 

[slugslum]

Alright time to see what all the fuss is about, dropping this will edit it after i read it lol. I wanna know what changes.

EDIT:
Meh don't see what all the hate is about its just there. Not too interesting that I'll return, not "offensive" enough to drive me away. I can see myself reading it on a bored Sunday night. 3/5

 

[saintofducks]

Japanese culture is centered around aliens. They have holidays for aliens. They killed hundreds of thousands of japanese men to free aliens. They listen to alien music. They elect an alien as their president. They dress and act like aliens. They draw the entirety of their modern culture from aliens. They post sassy gifs about aliens. They watch sportsball in worship of aliens. Their biggest event of the year involves throwing parties in honor of aliens playing sports. Their cities are completely overrun with aliens. They worship their SQUIDbot police force disproportionately filled with aliens and their global police force of soldiers filled with aliens. Their men sit around watching alienball while their women sit around watching alien talk shows. They worship aliens like the ones that destroyed the asteroid while attacking the japanese who actually built their country before the aliens took over. Their movies are filled with aliens and their music charts are topped by aliens. They send aliens to the Olympics and celebrate when the aliens win because those aliens are true red blooded japanese aliens. They watch alien porn to a point where "BAC" does not make them think of an international media company but about alien penises instead. They will tell you how much they hate aliens and how the mutt's law meme is a stale joke and they are just pretending to love aliens but the evidence speaks for itself in that Japan has always been and will be a nation of alien loving aliens.

I think part of this could be seen as valid but have you considered globalization? Every country has it including japan

 

[avefenixflames]

They are calling "aliens" to the Aliens and we already know who the Americans call Alien.

Is this an american franchise or with a setting in america?

 

[OogieBoogie]

Bruh so the main characters are whiny, racist murderers with a chip on their shoulders who engage in cannibalism based on unfounded resentment of an alien race that has actively helped society? Not sure how I'm supposed to root for them in any way.

 

[chojinra]

Dammit. I didn't want to comment on this, as it seemed just like internet ragebait drama.

However, I can't understand that people don't understand that they're basically going after the 1% in this. Considering how many people were cheering not mourning the passing of a CEO recently, I'd figure the other 99% would be all in.

 

[hawkflights]

Bruh so the main characters are whiny, racist murderers with a chip on their shoulders who engage in cannibalism based on unfounded resentment of an alien race that has actively helped society? Not sure how I'm supposed to root for them in any way.

You almost had it except for the "unfounded" part. There seems plenty wrong with this stratified society, even if its malice falls within the band of what many readers consider Normal.

 

[OogieBoogie]

You almost had it except for the "unfounded" part. There seems plenty wrong with this stratified society, even if its malice falls within the band of what many readers consider Normal.

Really? Other than some aliens being jerks, I didn't pick up anything really wrong. Unless you count their conspiracy theories.

 

[74HC595]

You know the end of season one of the Chainsaw Man manga? Well it’s like that but an entire series.

 

[Michika]

Is this an american franchise or with a setting in america?

You know exactly what I mean. Americans reading "alien" assumed it was an allegory for their problem with immigrants, they always think it's all about them. Like the time a Pokémon came out that was based on a detective and they thought it was Trump because of the shape of his head and he was fighting some ratattas that were stealing food from Alola.

 

[vannn]

Kinda meh, there’s a lot you can do with a pair of cannibal serial killers but neither of them are charismatic enough for me to care.

The fact that a bunch of anti woke lemmings are flooding the comments doesn’t bode well either, not necessarily the manga’s fault but having culture war bullshit in the periphery takes away some of the fun of reading for me personally.

 

[Dagger]

I wish...

Why doesn't she qualify as a Tomboy for you?

 

[Eighty-six]

Why doesn't she qualify as a Tomboy for you?

Why would she? Especially as of chapter 1 (but even as of the most current chapter as of me posting this), there's no insight into her interests and how society views both said interests and the fact that she-- as a woman-- has them. Tomboyishness is normally characterized as "girls doing boy things", but the heart of it is that they engage in behavior that doesn't conform to the given society's sex-based expectations for women (which often means that they do "boy" things more so out of what happens to be the case-- there are only two sexes to have expectations for, so if their interests aren't popular with girls it's likely the case that they're popular with boys). That may happen incidentally-- they're more concerned with their interests than whether they fit sex-based expectations of them as females-- or it can happen on account of some hatred of femininity and/or other women. Perhaps it happens because of an abundance of male influence (e.g. her family is majority male) they happened to take to. As for Nonamoto: one could point to her factory job, but said job's not much characterized (it doesn't matter enough to be) and we also see women working there at any rate.

Her thinking patterns and more general behaviors also don't portray the aforementioned tension of "girl doing boy things" (or "girl thinking boy things", in this case). Not that she isn't characterized at all, but that the characterization she's received so far doesn't involve the aforementioned.

Even on the most superficial level-- her looks-- she doesn't really fit the stereotype. Her hair's braided, and she puts them up into loops at work. The closest to "tomboy" she gets is that she wears pants, and perhaps that her body is "plain" (but her body shape isn't entirely deliberate on her part-- I'm reaching at this point). I say this is "superficial", but even her appearance can portray her personality: the stereotypical "short hair" and boyish dressing of many tomboys (characters or real people), for example, can be the result of those things being practical for physical work or activity (things seen to be predominantly in the "male" domain) or just "easy" to tend to (a manner of thinking also often ascribed to men). Alternatively, they can be the result of wanting to adhere to either a boyish style-- or at least one not attractive to girls in said society (whether that's deliberate or incidental on the tomboy's part). As far as Nonamoto's been characterized, though, she's a runaway that's been struggling to live paycheck to paycheck-- she doesn't appear to have the luxury of clothing choice, to begin with.

I could turn out to be wrong as her character is further developed. Currently, I'm of the mind that both her design and (secondarily) her character are the product of the mangaka wanting a female protagonist while also wanting to suppress potential sex appeal.

 

[Saybah]

Am I the only one who find this fun? I don't know what the alien supposed to represent as in this manga (IRL foreigner?) but I don't really think that way so I'm just happy to see dumb looking aliens get murdered. Feels like the kind of fun when you play GTA where you can just murder anything that moves.

 

[Intrigbagarn]

 

[ryuumajin]

lives in Indonesia
can't go to Bali
can't live in Bali
sees the video about foreigners working on laptop in some cafe, then chilling and partying at night, NOT PAYING TAXES, in bali
reads this manga that aliens are given special rights

................................. ouch. I dunno why this hits deeply.
I'm feeling that they might go as Villain Protagonist like Kira in Death Note. But with more chaos.
Will be waiting for the next chapter.

 

[Kryloth]

HUMAN SUPREMACY!

 

[Kakyoindonut321]

Incredibly funny and boring

 

[Kampfarsch]

...This is what people lost their minds over?
This is literally nothing? How do you see this and think of immigrants or racism?
Is this the craziest dog whistle of all time?
From their perspective/what little we are shown here humans are treated as second class citizen and we know fuck all about how the merger actually went down.
For all we know MC is completely justified.

Bruh so the main characters are whiny, racist murderers with a chip on their shoulders who engage in cannibalism based on unfounded resentment of an alien race that has actively helped society? Not sure how I'm supposed to root for them in any way.

These are aliens, but your twitter brain is hard wired to argue brown people huh?
You know literally nothing but you instinctively take their side, whipped dog

 

[q0099]

I think it's going to be some sort of emotion-venting manga.

In coming years there going to be an outburst of people of many forgings in Japan, as the US is going to make preparations to oppose China at East Asia region, as well as to move from declining Europe markets to the Asian ones, making Japan the main base of military and economic operations. So, it is safe to presume a lot of local people would be pissed off by this new people who had to hastily (and maybe even unwillingly) move oversea, barely speaking Japanese and unknown of Japan culture.

The overall premise based on a general suspicion, fear and rejection of the aliens. The premise for the main character girl is quite crudely put together, so it appeals to emotions and feelings towards the aliens rather than to logic. Meanwhile, the premise for the boy protagonist appeals to past tragic experience related to the aliens. With that, the main cases are covered.

Killing and eating the aliens might seem to be quite risky idea, but it is perfect to vent reader's pent-up emotions, as making eating aliens a crucial part of the process prevents everyone sane from replicating the whole experience IRL (still, they made a safeguard by making one of the main character strongly hate the process).