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

[Panino]

Nomamoto says she hasn't eaten meat in years.
Kitami was disgusted by the smell of baked meat... doesn't this implies that maybe he also hasn't eaten meat for some time?
Maybe there's something in the meat that is "brainwashing" people?
Is WcDonald's People?!

I also have a small suspicious that Nomamoto wasn't actually being hit...

 

[yurimakesmeuglycry]

Can you explain? Sorry, I’m unsure with the connection.

It doesn't remotely and that poster is a troll.

If it's anything it's white people, particularly Americans. Probably influenced a bit by the base at Okinawa. To a lesser extent it could extend to foreigners in general, particularly and primarily wealthy ones.

 

[Yatagan]

Not really inclined to instantly declare what this is based off of the first chapter, what is meant to be a possible hook for the series.

And the hook/buzz about it clearly works with it gaining tons of attention on Manga Plus (319k views at time of writing, versus say 180k for the last chapter of Sakamoto Days and 173k for Kagurabachi).

Curious if it goes the route of genuine xenophobia (or anti-colonialism, as I saw one commenter put it, which could be interesting) or if there's going to be some twist to double back on to act as satire

It's sure to piss off tons of people no matter which route it goes now.

 

[OiIMan]

Man, this really brought out all the fucking weirdos huh?

Eat the rich. Kill your masters.

BASED BASED BASED BASED

 

[OiIMan]

racists try to have any reading comprehension challenge:

 

[aluckypizzaguy]

Hey now, basic pattern recognition is hella racist. Implying consequences that happened repeatedly in the near past will continue to happen in the future is socially unacceptable. You better lobotomize yourself like the rest of us if you want to fit in. Here, let me help you start. Repeat after me: Every single bad thing that happens because of my beliefs is an isolated incident, and no amount of isolated incidents can represent a broader pattern. It doesn't matter if it happens 99% of the time because that 1% of the time where it didn't happen PROVES that it's not true.

Yea, that earlier comment was just "bait." My sides. Ya'll niggas really take this culture war shit serious. 🤣

 

[aluckypizzaguy]

I'm also going to enjoy all the people who are gonna call this woke when it bait and switches into the MC being wrong. 😭

 

[aluckypizzaguy]

This manga kinda mid so far, lots of people see a bit of racism and got excited haha. I wonder where they will go with this? The real fun is seeing the woke and anti-woke sides both trying to stake claim over this already! 🤣 "Actually it's a metaphor for anti-colonialism." "Actually, it's a commentary on how migrants are ruining the world." "Actually, it's about eating the rich." "Actually, it's about tourists in the anime community."

 

[unfilteredjw]

This manga kinda mid so far, lots of people see a bit of racism and got excited haha. I wonder where they will go with this? The real fun is seeing the woke and anti-woke sides both trying to stake claim over this already! 🤣 "Actually it's a metaphor for anti-colonialism." "Actually, it's a commentary on how migrants are ruining the world." "Actually, it's about eating the rich." "Actually, it's about tourists in the anime community."

No one gives a shit about your faux enlightened centrism lol

 

[runfromwolves]

this is unlikely to go anywhere. the longest runtime it is likely to have is if it keeps walking the line that's upsetting people for as long as possible. if it leans one way or the other it will very quickly lose the engagement it's built, because whatever agenda is being pushed will anger one of two groups of people, who will leave in anger, and then the other group will have nobody to argue about it with and stop reading it.

enjoy being mad at each other while you can.

 

[shinobanana]

Not really. It's usually Whites who occupy high positions in Japanese companies. The entire plot point of the drunk driver mirrors the numerous incidents of US Marines in Japan Drink Driving and causing accidents and even deaths and getting off with no or minor sentences. The "saving" of Earth and giving advanced Tech mirror the United States occupation and development of Japan in the Post-War period. The MVP of the NPB in the manga is an Alien (while several foreign nations play Baseball, it's most likely a reference to an American Baseball player)

Indians and Chinese are DEFINETELY not glamorized and in Japanese society like the Manga shows the Aliens are. Nor can they get away with speaking their own language in Japan like an English speaker can.

The space ships flying overhead and being a nuisance is definitely an American thing too. They hate those American jet flyovers.

 

[DarkeLourd]

This manga is a fucking Rorschach test for politics.

 

[Judaskiss]

It’s a bit on the nose, in my opinion. Also, unless immigrants are treated way differently in Japan than here in the US, the privilege part doesn’t make sense.

 

[MonsterGirlHusband]

some of the most annoying people you know are reading this and chortling to themselves thinking "ohh this'll trigger those libs..."

And they were totally correct.

No, it isn't. Immigrants don't readily revolutionize society, establishing superior technology and becoming the favored group while still being a minority (however fast their numbers are increasing).

Guy that thinks immigrants are not a favored group.

 

[undeadman]

This manga kinda mid so far, lots of people see a bit of racism and got excited haha. I wonder where they will go with this? The real fun is seeing the woke and anti-woke sides both trying to stake claim over this already! 🤣 "Actually it's a metaphor for anti-colonialism." "Actually, it's a commentary on how migrants are ruining the world." "Actually, it's about eating the rich." "Actually, it's about tourists in the anime community."

Dude they literally ate the upper class aliens it's definitely about eating the rich

 

[undeadman]

speedreader-kun... please try harder

I don't know I reread it and I couldn't tell I'm leaning towards girl tho need more unhinged girl rep

 

[D0ncoming5torm]

You know what's hilarious? If you completely removed the alien plotline, and it's all just humans, Namamoto's boss would be some spoiled nepo baby, and Kitami's family would have been killed in a car crash caused by some rich guy. If that were the case, the same people crying about the racism would be celebrating that it's about two poor and oppressed working class people killing and possibly even literally eating the rich. To me, this is just seems like Sweeney Todd with aliens, and I hope that's the direction it's going to go in.

 

[Derpthenerd]

And they were totally correct.

very well could be, that just makes two groups of annoying fucks

 

[AnotherRat]

Really cool. Whether the author means to parallel an issue irl doesn't matter. It's a fun concept.

Good stuff, so far.

 

[GamKHT]

Why do you start every post with "ah yes"? Are you autistic?

Considering the outrageous stuff you posted before, the fact that the best answer you came up was this is hilarious. Calling people autistic, are you 5?

LMAO HOLY SHIT HE'S SO STUPID HE DID THE MEME, I LITERALLY CALLED YOU OUT DAYS BEFORE YOU EVEN POSTED

Dude, please stop saying people are "falling for your baits" when they just comment things, it's really embarrassing... Seriously.
If this problem was widespread, it would be all over the news. The best thing you could find was one fucking blog post by a nobody that claims he saw those things happening. That's the definition of "isolated incident". Yeah, everyone should be a bit skeptical of mainstream media, but this is just you being a 4chan user.
Also, in what way did I defend animal cruelty, or did I downplay it? I said it was an isolated incident, and what you're saying is harmful to immigrants because you're generalizing, these people already live in the fringes of society. I agree with you, animal cruelty is disgusting, and nobody should grill cats, that's a given. (Also, I wish you won't look up how the meat we eat is processed, your head will explode)
You're really desperate to make me rage quit or some shit, huh. You should take a deep breath and review some of the things you believe in and go around defending.

Did I say that ONLY Chinese and Indians harass their workers? Did I say it was a race thing like its somehow part of their DNA? I'm saying that based on secondhand knowledge there is some of that going on those countries and cultures and some of it has spilt over to Japan. From the Japanese perspective that's certainly not something they want to import. They already have enough homegrown "black" companies to deal with.

Yes, you did, you even said an American wouldn't have the guts to hit their workers.
That's not a culture nobody wants to import, and if an Indian or a Chinese hit one of their workers in Japan they'd be in prison in a heartbeat. Immigrants are not that well received in Japan, especially low wage workers.

"Eat the rich" Really? Seriously, stop being a Redditard and seeing what you want to see. The rich Japanese aren't being represented here at all.

You're really obsessed with Reddit, but look around man, you're on mangadex. Get a grip, is this the prime social media?
"Eat the rich" is a famous and old saying (from 1793 btw), it's not Reddit exclusive. And where did I say it was about the Japanese rich? I said the manga was about anti-colonisation, the rich and powerful occupying another country.

Japan was also colonized and harassed multiple times in their existence. History doesn't start and end with WWII. Every group and country has some baggage and if not they haven't been around long enough to be judged in hindsight by armchair historians for something they though was "on the right side of history" at the time.

Source for Japan being colonized multiple times during their existence? I honestly couldn't find any, so I'm curious. They were occupied for a short time before WWII, but that's far, really far, from other countries experienced. I agree with the last statement somewhat, people shouldn't be judged from crimes committed from their ancestors, but people also need to learn from their country's mistakes and also not be hypocritical about it.
This rclay1 guy for instance is carrying around proudly an image of Britain's flag as his logo, fine, but dude is also complaining that immigrants shouldn't exist. Britain colonized multiple countries, especially in Africa, and these said countries now suffer from numerous infrastructural problems, while Britain collected a lot of wealth from the colonization. Shouldn't there be some reparation? Shouldn't these countries work together to come up with a solution? It's not about just blaming all on them, or even their people who had nothing to do with it, but it's about responsibility.