Drama Queen - Ch. 4 - Don't Come Any Closer

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I think it’s a but early to tell what the author’s thoughts behind the story are. Anti colonialism, xenophobia, classism, something else, I can’t say just yet, but for now I consider them all an option. This isn’t like Yattara where it’s clear that it’s against xenophobia, it feels more open for now.

I would think it’s a rather daring move if it’s xenophobia the manga to then translate it in English though lol
 
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The aliens aren't just aliens, that's pretty obvious from the tone, though the author's specific intent is hard to parse since there's a lot of overlap. I doubt the aliens are meant to be the rich since they're killing random aliens on the street. They aren't just a stand-in for bad or rude people either since they just established that humans can still suck in this narrative.

This leaves them as obvious foreigners, but I don't think the anti-colonial/imperialist aspect really works yet since the two MCs are losers and, despite what they've said, we haven't really seen the aliens in a clear position of power outside of PR compared to the average human. The MCs also spout pretty standard anti-[insert any maligned ethnic group here] rhetoric, so the aliens could be a stand-in for basically any immigrant group that conspiracy theorists claim run everything behind the scenes. I've seen rightwing Japanese artists panicking that Turks or Kurds secretly run the Japanese government, so I'm not sure the anti-colonial aspect of this is in good faith.

I think the absurd and comedic tone was a decent choice, and the cannibalistic premise is fun, but I don't think it goes far enough if it wanted to land the tone. I'll watch this trainwreck to the end, though. I'm fascinated.
The aliens very clearly represent my agenda. Can't you see? It's so obvious it's about my agenda.
 
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the JP side is now saying the aliens are just the author's stand-in for anything they want to criticize, as they're linking this case to the nippon television donation scam. search 日本テレビ募金詐欺 or 24時間テレビ募金着服 if you're interested. if we're drawing real life parallels, we could also say author is going the classism angle as others have said. this may be a coincidence but notice the author focuses on the shoes of the humans helping with the scam. it sounds silly, but it's common and true that people use the condition/appearance of shoes to evaluate the wealth of others, which i find a bit dumb since most of us are passing strangers who may never meet again but if everyone was rational the world wouldn't be the state it's in.
If it really boils down to "everyone I don't like" it'd explain why it feels so scattershot. Some of it is clearly a dig at foreigners (the baseball player, boyfriend, and manager) and I read that the author is from Okinawa, which'd make sense, though I don't know if that's true.

But I don't know if it really holds up on the classism angle given that the protagonists have it out for every single alien so far and a good number don't appear particularly wealthy (the random guys they killed on the street, the boyfriend, the neighbors, the prostitutes, etc.).
we may all be overthinking though, because at the end of the day manga is manga
True enough. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Should be interesting to see how it goes forward.
 
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The client (huntaways human competition) is the one who died, likely due to a minion of huntaway killling him. Since the client, as in the person who is paying for the assassination, is dead then they wont get paid so they were pulling out of the job since no money no killing.
So, assassins are just consultants in the end? Checks out.
 
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Is it anticolonial agitprop?

Is it anti-immigration agitprop?

Is it just a story?

Hard to say, but it's definitely mid either way
 
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if he has half a brain he'll say that she's taking care of the bodies alone bc one of them had to keep guard, but that he can do the secret alien disposal method ™️ as well
 

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