Drama Queen

[Lanfear]

this comment section is wild.

 

[chromad]

In bad faith? 100% because I think you are being silly jumping at shadows. "Bwuh! The horror! It's referencing real world political issues! How dare he (or she)!"
I can see how one may interpret this as political commentary. Did the mangaka intend that or was it by accident? Who knows, can't read their mind and I don't care to dwell on it. Letting politics live in your head gives you brainrot. Instead, I'll mock drama queens on the interwebs too uptight to set politics aside and enjoy it as a macabre story about eating aliens.

Anyways, good talk.

On a side note, I do find it interesting that many new accounts were made in the last few days just to post in this thread.

Oh, the unbearable burden of being too smart and mature to notice gross sentiments.

Of course nobody knows where the story is going, but this shit isn't happening in a vacuum. I know you're Very Smart™ but other people are actually smart, and have noticed that Shueisha has now published two mangas aimed at young boys that have openly xenophobic premises.

Maybe everyone's jumping the gun, maybe this is a masterpiece waiting to happen, but there's a difference between waiting to see and running flak for the series by scolding people for even questioning it.

 

[remymuah]

guys… it’s probably anti-colonialism… maybe a weird way to tell an anti-colonialism story in this political climate, but still probably anti-colonialism nonetheless…

 

[Atmosk]

Media literacy truly is dead

 

[AnatolianTurk]

TOTAL ALIEN DEATH

 

[Castane]

Stop noticing things, you dumb earthlings

 

[StormTigrex]

Actually, the thing that truly sets the stage and confirms the nature of the manga is the protagonist complaining about the "partner" thing.

That's just way too niche within Twitter rightoid circles and RETVRN types.

 

[Konanoki]

Actually, the thing that truly sets the stage and confirms the nature of the manga is the protagonist complaining about the "partner" thing.

That's just way too niche within Twitter rightoid circles and RETVRN types.

Could you elaborate on this?

 

[unholywolf]

All right after so time thinking about this I've changed my opinion. At first I thought this was anti-colonialism but now I'm thinking the author just watch Sweeny Todd and They Live and decided to mix them together. And maybe played Godlike Burger.

 

[Viana_999_BR]

The first chapter is very interesting, I am eagerly awaiting the next chapters.
To appreciate a work, it is necessary to separate fiction from reality and independently, without letting your own convictions make Oscar Wilde's phrase "All art is useless" true, because when Men and Women become superficial like their reflection in the mirror, they also become incapable of seeing the whole and end up trapped in their weak assumptions.

 

[RichardPercival]

The main girl is cute and I'm ready to be radicalized

 

[nicohr]

Why do they think it's about xenophobia against Americans? The majority of foreigners in Japan, both as tourists and business owners, are from China or other East Asian countries, not from America or Europe. It's ironic to see 'Americans' writing about racism and xenophobia when their own country has the biggest problems with racism and xenophobia.

There are stupid and racist people everywhere in the world, but the vast majority of Japanese people are kind to foreigners and try to help and understand as much as they can within their cultural and language limitations, as long as you behave respectfully towards their culture and customs. There are many tourists who complain because people don't speak English or signs aren't in English, what they should understand is that it is they who should try to understand the Japanese language and not the Japanese who should speak English in Japan.

The manga is okay and it's worth seeing how it develops. Perhaps it will end up being just another manga rather than something truly remarkable. And it's likely that the mangaka, if they were inspired by foreigners to develop the aliens, based them on foreigners who believe they can impose their culture, customs, and language, without respecting the culture and language of the country they visit.

 

[VamperKen]

Idk how y'all getting to the " woke " Conclusion but I love this manga. It's just dumb fun imagine getting peacefully dominated by aliens but turns out they are tasty asf

 

[Leffty]

Am I late for shitstorm? I brought some popcorn with me.

 

[GetRekdm8]

I read this first chapter: "damn the story is cool af, the protagonists are out of their minds"
Comments: "uhm, is this alt-right propaganda?"

me:

Tourists gonna tourist.

 

[GetRekdm8]

Could you elaborate on this?

I'll do it for you. Think this is the gist of what he'd say:

Also that dude literally joined yesterday lmfao, explains everything you need to know.

 

[StormTigrex]

Could you elaborate on this?

There's a view on the conservative right that dislikes the perceived trend of people saying "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas", using BCE instead of BC or calling their wife/husband "partner".

 

[Regerts]

Wait it's actually goated though. How can no one see that the humans of Japan are being oppressed?

Even if it really ends up just being about racism this could be a good depiction of how racism starts.

(not saying racism okay just that this would be a good expression of it)

Although I don't see how you could read this and think that the aliens don't deserve it. Unless you're In Praise Of Shadows... Saying the MURDER CANNIBALS in The Hills Have Eyes are representative of black America and the family is symbolic of wealthy white progress.

Basically, go outside of you think this way.

 

[Jayjback]

Mfers only paying attention to the literal message, thinking the author is on their side, are insane 1 dimensional smooth brains who break down infront of the clearest metaphors.

Read the authors other works to get some insight of their political alignment.

Queer advocates arent always progressive, but empathetic story tellers often are.

Tho, it's not surprising that facist ideology and red pilled bs is deep in the online anime/manga space, imo kind of a side effect of the LDP targeted subsidization program (I still like spyxfamily, but it is not hyperbolic to call it literal propaganda) mixed with alt-right targeting tactics, but whatever.

Obviously there are a lot of xenophobia connections, and making the protagonist into something like Albert Fish if he idolized the christ-church shooter is a... Choice. I have some faith in the author tho, seems like they got a vision, also the humor is actually fuckin good in this which is wild since manga often doesnt actually do anything funny in their comedies.

BUT if you "dont bring woke to my manga" crybabies want an alt reading to play with, I think while racism and xenophobia is the obvious connection to the aliens, in the story the aliens actually do own the means of production. The working conditions are actually awful, and the demonization of the ruling class has merit in the cannon.

So far it's a story about socialism. The protagist literally eats the rich ruling class. And mixing the two is interesting, economic progressivism through social conservatism is something I have not seen that often. Like, imagine rejecting late stage capitalism and funding mass social programs to own the libs. Damn, even that framing is kinda funny.

 

[guangdeng]

this manga somehow feels very similar to what happened to many third world countries during colonialization lol. Basically a random group of people come to your country, supposed to bring "democracy", "civilization" to your nation. But in reality they just enslaved your people and took your resources. And then some guys had enough so revolution happened
ps: in my goofy-ahh opinion: Most xtards who think this manga is racism is either born in a country that colonized others or just really bad at history