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

[BakedBanana]

@sterven @bigtiddyoneesan @pandascepter @EOTFOFYL @BakedBanana @Manko-sensei
Seems like the buffet is open.

And I'm all for the food, I heard they are serving alien.

But I read the whole chapter, what's the whole fuss about that I kept hearing? Seems pretty normal.

 

[Cable_TV]

This whole chapter felt like one of those twitter schizo threads when someone gets incredible mad at some imaginary problem that only exists in their head.
This manga is going to be extremely popular lmao

 

[tblaziken]

Maybe it's just me but compared to the first chapter of Gintama, the narration here is less subtle, due to Shinpachi (straight man) being the narrator, while in Drama Queen the roles are not that clear yet.

 

[bigtiddyoneesan]

@sterven @bigtiddyoneesan @pandascepter @EOTFOFYL @BakedBanana @Manko-sensei
Seems like the buffet is open.

mc is literally me. when this gets a live action and mc is played by ryan gosling he will be even more literally me. can't wait for the arc where they find out a second race of aliens was behind everything the whole time

 

[Fireboy]

Holy shit they didn't butcher the 2 page spread. Truly Manga Plus has entered into a new golden age.

 

[pandascepter]

@sterven @bigtiddyoneesan @pandascepter @EOTFOFYL @BakedBanana @Manko-sensei
Seems like the buffet is open.

ami drama queen after all?

 

[ElSuperNova]

Close enough, welcome back Gintama.

 

[Yodium]

Good shit, might let it cook for some time

 

[Mah_Buddy_Keith]

Let’s be xenophobic. It’s really in this year.
Let’s find a nasty, slimy, ugly alien to fear…

 

[2hot4you]

How can you call it xenophobic when they have a legitimate reason to hate them? An alien killed his family and got off scot-free, its entirely reasonable for him to hate them. I like a based manga as much as the next guy, but so far this all seems pretty tame and not really worth a fuss over yet.

 

[ZenMasters]

Just because their opinions are different doesn't mean they are westerners.

“If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck”.

Only Westerners would throw around words like "fascist", "bigot", "racist", "xenophobic", "oppressed", etc like they're nothing. Also, if someone's interpretation of the first chapter is that of "anti-immigration", then there's a big-fat chance they're a Western Liberal.

 

[walebtd]

Says something stupid
Someone responds
'You fell for bait dude it's bait'
Holy fucking shit you're not real

 

[starbruh]

I love racist, xenophobic, manga thats actually about white people (more specifically disrespectful American colonialism attitudes after WW2) and I’m tired of pretending otherwise

 

[Manko-sensei]

Since @Angry_Panda asked for... at first I was surprised this shonen wasn't about human farming and rapey-rape, so I put it on the "generic trash manga" skip but at the end I saw some squid/meat eating so I guess this won't be pure edginess? It was boring nevertheless so it won't change my mind, eww, it's shonen manga after all.

 

[wankerLin]

Not fan of the alien design, but yes alien are annoying.

 

[Monovar]

I like how they suggested the meteorite was a part of the aliens' takeover plan. Interesting so far.

 

[sterven]

@sterven @bigtiddyoneesan @pandascepter @EOTFOFYL @BakedBanana @Manko-sensei
Seems like the buffet is open

Drama queen huh? Sounds like an adaptation of my life im in

 

[smart_fella255]

I like how they suggested the meteorite was a part of the aliens' takeover plan. Interesting so far.

The meteorite conspiracy theory is probably what the story is gonna be mainly about, I think.

 

[Sakuyadorf]

Where can I buy the Blu rays and figures?

 

[Eighty-six]

Holy shit. Tumblr on life support. Saw this mentioned on Twitter and the usual suspects are already having the best kind of freakouts about the mere existence of this manga.

They're gonna move on to some new outrage bait within the month, and so will the people using it for bait.

In the meantime, I'll bear witness to this being (mostly) inexplicably used as a culture war football.

Japan seems to be entering the same migrant crisis going on in the West, so I'm not surprised something like this cropped up. It remains to be seen if this is a critique of right-wing beliefs or an endorsement.

The protagonists eat an alien corpse to dispose of it.

The girl says it tastes like squid.

How can you call it xenophobic when they have a legitimate reason to hate them? An alien killed his family and got off scot-free, its entirely reasonable for him to hate them.

That's still xenophobic, and it's still him prejudging an entire population based on the actions of a few of them. It's just sympathetic xenophobia, especially when we haven't gotten a positive representation of aliens beyond their salvation of the earth-- the veracity of which is expressly scrutinized.

It'll probably be justified xenophobia if it turns out the aliens did stage the disaster they saved the earth from.

Says something stupid
Someone responds
'You fell for bait dude it's bait'
Holy fucking shit you're not real

The way to look at it, is that the baiter is dragging you into the mud alongside him. It's not that you're "responding to something stupid", it's that you're responding to something stupid enough that it's not worth responding to.