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Seems weird to see a story about evil aliens and come to the conclusion that it's a "xenophobic alt-right metaphor".
To me, that says a lot more about you and the others with similar takes, than it does the manga.
How bad faith can you be?
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It is either the worst way to tell an anti-xenophobia/racism message or quite possibly the most on the nose alt-right signal I have seen.
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Where the fuck does it say that the aliens are evil in this?
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Twitter's rainbow goblins pitched a fit over ontologically evil demons in Frieren too. Some people are deathly allergic to remembering evil exists because it makes them think about all the harm they cause and they're not ready to confront that they might not be perfectly moral.
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Hoh boy. Got both sides of the "culture war" squad here allready:
1. Talking about "alt-right" outside of the US, makes limited sense. Racism is global, but it's political associations and implications differ from place to place.
2. We only got one chapter so far. It's a bit early for the pitchforks.
3. The author is very clearly playing arround with ideas from the racist thinkspace.
- "Aliens are stealing our women."
- "The economy is bad" - with a implied - "because of aliens."
- "I cannot speak out against aliens because of fear of persecution."
These are fairly global racist talking points.
There are also parts that don't fit, like portraying the aliens as saviours (even as fake saviours) - and the whole "we can eat the aliens" things.
So far this smells like the typical "evil protagonist" story, where the first half is going to be about revenge fantasies, while the second half is going to pivot towards "actually it turns out, the aliens are just people and now we have to deal with all the shit we caused in the first half".
1. Talking about "alt-right" outside of the US, makes limited sense. Racism is global, but it's political associations and implications differ from place to place.
2. We only got one chapter so far. It's a bit early for the pitchforks.
3. The author is very clearly playing arround with ideas from the racist thinkspace.
- "Aliens are stealing our women."
- "The economy is bad" - with a implied - "because of aliens."
- "I cannot speak out against aliens because of fear of persecution."
These are fairly global racist talking points.
There are also parts that don't fit, like portraying the aliens as saviours (even as fake saviours) - and the whole "we can eat the aliens" things.
So far this smells like the typical "evil protagonist" story, where the first half is going to be about revenge fantasies, while the second half is going to pivot towards "actually it turns out, the aliens are just people and now we have to deal with all the shit we caused in the first half".
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Definitely, I feel this lacks the self-serious tone seen in other angsty revenge fantasies which is awesome and it'd be really hard to double down on the aliens being seriously evil without the camp and angst; as opposed to the "deuteragonist is actually a bonafide psycho and protag winds up in over her head" which would be funny I think
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No offense but are you mentally ill?
Even if it was, then what? Japan isn't a cuck like America is and 90% of the people who care about such BS are Americans. Y'all "muh Racism" has little power elsewhere.
Y'all were shouting about how Israel should be abolish and whatnot the past year and now cry over a manga about some dudes being fed up with the alien invasion.
The manga has a lot of potential and I know it will deliver, but I wish that with each chapter turns more and more "alt right"
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Just don't read the manga (Or manga at all) if you're not smart enough to separate fiction from reality.
Trying to link a story about extraterrestrials being discriminated against and eaten by humans, to real life politics is absolutely mental; especially when there are a million upon millions of Western media that does similar discriminatory stories of aliens and humans alike.
Trying to link a story about extraterrestrials being discriminated against and eaten by humans, to real life politics is absolutely mental; especially when there are a million upon millions of Western media that does similar discriminatory stories of aliens and humans alike.
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When every single alien that Nomamoto meets is rude and dismissive towards her at best.
When aliens can kill a whole family in a drunk driving incident and get away scot free.
When new housing gets built solely for aliens, who then also get free parking
When aliens can run an entire factory without speaking human language, pay their human workers a pittance, and even hit them if they don't behave how they want them to.
I mean, it's only the first chapter, maybe these will be contextualised in a way that gives the aliens more nuance/depth. But as it stands, the aliens seem pretty bad.
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At the moment we have very little information about aliens, they are just rude and they are privileged because they saved the earth and shared their technology with humans.
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“…and then they controlled the banks too, the end”
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This is either going to be so unbelievably dogshit or really damn good and I have no idea which. Leaning towards dogshit but too early to tell I think, let's see
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Dunno how you got that from it, felt more like an anti-colonialism message to me.
Outsiders with vastly superior technology used said technology to place themselves at the top of the social strata, disadvantaged natives quite literally eat the rich. Feels pretty straightforward to me.
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Huh? Alt-right signal? How could this manga be an alt-right signal? That only makes sense if you equate the race of alien invaders who objectively cause tons of harm but are protected by the media and society to real-life minorities or refugees.
Are you doing that? Are you saying minorities and refugees cause tons of harm and are protected by the media and society? Please, explain your thought process. I'm sure everyone wants to hear it.
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Honestly, I will follow this manga just for the drama surrounding it.
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