Drama Queen - Ch. 9 - What's With That Face?

[MangaDex]

 

[Robinisback]

The alien are still quite vague, they talk about the mundane things like any other human, show no emotion on their face but still can express emotions via their trunks, for all we know the aliens could be the good guys and find out that Nomamoto is just being a Drama Queen.

 

[AoiSpectre]

I do like that the aliens are vague enough that people who try to attribute them to a specific real like group look silly.

It’s a manga that uses political themes to tell a story, not a story meant to tell a political message.

 

[Ayumumono]

A feast is coming.

 

[Cool.Ice]

I love how only Kitami actually 'hates' alien

He is the 'hero's journey' ahh character
While Nomamoto is the 'Denji' character (Weird reasons)
Backbone is 'Death' character (Doing her job)
While Iglaskar just loves to watch the world burn, the 'Joker' character

Also, I love that the author is showing that it's wrong to kill aliens by humanizing them
As long as they get their consequences, I will love this story

If Kitami also starts to hate humans then…

 

[Pibata]

well
at least she (Nomamoto) tried to understand him

i'm curious on where's this is going

 

[Angry_Panda]

The further we go, the less any of the MCs seem like people I want to root for. Given this, can we at least get more slapstick alien murder/eating?

 

[YamiTheWitch]

The alien are still quite vague, they talk about the mundane things like any other human, show no emotion on their face but still can express emotions via their trunks, for all we know the aliens could be the good guys and find out that Nomamoto is just being a Drama Queen.

Except, you know, all of the early chapters showing us that pretty much every single Alien is an asshole.

 

[Pibata]

I love how only Kitami actually 'hates' alien

He is the 'hero's journey' ahh character
While Nomamoto is the 'Denji' character (Weird reasons)
Backbone is 'Death' character (Doing her job)
While Iglaskar just loves to watch the world burn, the 'Joker' character

Also, I love that the author is showing that it's wrong to kill aliens by humanizing them
As long as they get their consequences, I will love this story

If Kitami also starts to hate humans then…

I just dont understand a thing:

I hate the alien who killed my family, so I'll kill all aliens with no guilty.
But then, I cant kill the 'brother' of the muder of my family because i'm guilty..?

Or he wants to discover the truth?

 

[Robinisback]

Except, you know, all of the early chapters showing us that pretty much every single Alien is an asshole.

I don't think being "Asshole" is enough to meet the qualifications of being murdered and being eaten, Not a single one seemed inhumanly evil enough to warrant being devoured. They don't deserve to be revered like the society currently does, but they don't deserve to be eaten either. Every human in this manga is on the extreme side of the spectrum.

 

[Angry_Panda]

I don't think being "Asshole" is enough to meet the qualifications of being murdered and being eaten, Not a single one seemed inhumanly evil enough to warrant being devoured.

They are vapid as hell, though, so by manga logic, they deserve death.

 

[HippoPilot]

Love the professor being the redditor argument archetype. "They're not taking over! Btw we're going to double their numbers here this year." The reason these population replacements (peaceful genocide) happen slowly is because it's a boiling frog situation. Do it slowly so that by the time most realise, it's too late to change anything and in the meantime call everyone nutjobs for asserting it but then rephrase what they're claiming as you talk about "how it's actually a good thing if it is happening." If they attacked outright humanity either has a chance of winning or would be fine killing themselves to do the most damage possible to the aliens as a final act. This is clearly an immigration allegory but it's not about a specific group of people because any inferior "nation" has the same effect when funneled into the first world.

 

[Serenata]

I forgot, are they still working for that man (now teacher) ? looks like the organization gave up pretty easily about finding out how to get rid of the bodies, if someone follows them in secret, it would be pretty obvious, I think the author is cooking something but there's a lot of turn off your brain moments and inconsistency for me to truly enjoy it at this point. For example, this time he managed to kill 2 aliens with a single sneaky strike from the back, pretty easily, but back in the hotel, they got captured off screen, how? are they strong or not? can they only be killed if they're caught off guard?

 

[YamiTheWitch]

I don't think being "Asshole" is enough to meet the qualifications of being murdered and being eaten, Not a single one seemed inhumanly evil enough to warrant being devoured. They don't deserve to be revered like the society currently does, but they don't deserve to be eaten either. Every human in this manga is on the extreme side of the spectrum.

They were cartoonishly evil and short tempered. That aside, they aren't just assholes, they are assholes with the freedom to come and go to their advanced society. We haven't seen one fight back, but I imagine being on figurative gunpoint of hypothetical unfathomable destruction would put me on edge too.

In the real world, people already get antsy about soldiers being anywhere near a border. Having suddenly a gigantic influx of people after a weapons test across a border would be massively worrying.

 

[UberNomad]

I just dont understand a thing:

I hate the alien who killed my family, so I'll kill all aliens with no guilty.
But then, I cant kill the 'brother' of the muder of my family because i'm guilty..?

Or he wants to discover the truth?

Few reasons. First, everybody saw their confrontation, so killing him so early and thoughtlessly might put suspicion on him. Secondary, if this guy actually tells the truth, he's the only possible lead.

 

[Argon2409]

I do like that the aliens are vague enough that people who try to attribute them to a specific real like group look silly.

It’s a manga that uses political themes to tell a story, not a story meant to tell a political message.

Yea, but like, it's trying to vindicate the uber-racists. Its political message seems to be along the lines of the white genocide conspiracy is real, and the aliens are allegory for the undesirables being present in society. For those unaware, it's the idea that "undesirable" people are "invading" "white" countries with the intent of breeding with and "replacing" the native population. You know, the thing they were referencing in the chapter. Something you seem to ignore is that everything is political, and stuff like allegory appears even when the author wasn't intending on making it.

Highly recommend looking up New Criticism, a criticism technique originating from the 20th century where you ignore everything surrounding a text, including the intentions of the author, and focus on the text itself.

 

[AndrewRo]

The alien are still quite vague, they talk about the mundane things like any other human, show no emotion on their face but still can express emotions via their trunks, for all we know the aliens could be the good guys and find out that Nomamoto is just being a Drama Queen.

 

[UberNomad]

and the aliens are allegory for the undesirables being present in society

How does it coincides with aliens being way more technologically advanced than humans? Maybe it's the aliens who are "white" and opressing Earths population out of some Space Mans Burden?

 

[NorwegianJap]

Yea, but like, it's trying to vindicate the uber-racists. Its political message seems to be along the lines of the white genocide conspiracy is real, and the aliens are allegory for the undesirables being present in society. For those unaware, it's the idea that "undesirable" people are "invading" "white" countries with the intent of breeding with and "replacing" the native population. You know, the thing they were referencing in the chapter. Something you seem to ignore is that everything is political, and stuff like allegory appears even when the author wasn't intending on making it.

Highly recommend looking up New Criticism, a criticism technique originating from the 20th century where you ignore everything surrounding a text, including the intentions of the author, and focus on the text itself.

We're are literally seeing that now all over the west though. Countries taking in too many immigrants that have objectively had a negative impact on society all while slowly replacing the native population. This isn't reddit, pretending this doesn't actually happen doesn't fly. Do you think countries like Sweden suddenly got gang infested and unsafe out of nowhere?

 

[Cool.Ice]

I just dont understand a thing:

I hate the alien who killed my family, so I'll kill all aliens with no guilty.
But then, I cant kill the 'brother' of the muder of my family because i'm guilty..?

Or he wants to discover the truth?

If he kills the new boss, he won't be able to kill his brother, as there won't be any way to reach him