Drama Queen

[Xylon666Darkstar]

This is based and kino. Following for the drama as well.

 

[StormSen]

Complaining about "savior" foreigners exploiting you and wanting revenge. Well, I'm far from a history major, but sure I'll take a shot:

• If you're Japanese, then invaders are Americans.
• If you're Korean, then invaders are Japanese.
• If you're Chinese, then invaders, are probably British, Japanese.
• If you're from a bunch of countries around China, then invaders are probably Chinese.

Etc, etc. Every civilization gets invaded.

 

[GuyUWishUWere]

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No because it's reflective of real conditions in some of the countries in Africa. Take King Leopold III for example. Take the sustained wealth inequality in South Africa for another example. Though, Chinese force is also a part of modern extraction economics in Africa. The children of the congo that extract cobolt have it worse than an amazon worker tho.

Replace the aliens for the japanese, and the earth for Korea and youve got something analogous to 1930's-1950's Japanese occupation.

Whether or not your old racial grievance is historically accurate or not is irrelevant since it's always used as justification to act against random people who "belong to the group" that did the misdeed. Mc's have full justification to kill those hit and run aliens, and the aliens who assault them. As for the humans who think of the situation as an invasion, well I see there point. But how do I justify killing individual aliens without catching them doing something evil? It's not like they're ever going to get their hands on those in power who are actually responsible for these huge events.

 

[PlanetaryOrtets]

It definitely seems that way and later if It gets good reports I might go back and check it out more
but for now I dont want to sit through 20+ chapters as they slowly come out of our main characters justifying systematically killing and eating people

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".

 

[BobBruhvino]

So...
Is this manga some sort of xenofobic alt-right metaphor?
This whole first chapter seemed rather strange in its ideias and simbology.

Yeah, and I’m all here for it.

GOOD OL JAPANESE IMPERIAL EMPIRE SUPERIORITY THE MANGA LETS GOOOOOOO

 

[scrangos]

It wouldnt be the first time a manga uses aliens as a metaphor. Its pretty heavy handed in gintama where the aliens are the americans that forced japan to open their country up using battleships.

 

[scrangos]

People it's quite literally "eat the rich" the manga!

This might also be the right take, its kinda easy to jump to xenophobia but this might be a class warfare sorta thing. The next chapter looks to be in a affluent place so we'll see where it heads.

I'm also starting to think the title of the manga is about the meta drama its going to create.

 

[bigboichin]

Heres a fun game you can play with this manga: replace every occurrence of the word “alien” with “Mexican” and let chaos ensue

 

[Andigo]

All these people weirdly fixated mapping this onto human race, but what sticks out to me is the class warfare. This is literally "eat the rich" privileged class. Like seeing someone even mildly bougie and having no empathy due to spite. There's no moral so far. Nomamoto has no ideology but she starved and now thinks killing is swell. Kitami's whole ideology is a revenge fantasy. Scary true to some punks and revolutionaries.

Since the aliens are so boring looking, and boring as characters, I don't expect this to run many volumes. But it's gonna be messy for a year or two. I'm glad this satire got past Shueisha. No surprise it's a Manga Plus original, seems a mite too incendiary for magazines.

 

[rickz137]

This going some where let him cook and let her eat. 🤣

 

[Insignis]

People have a damn political battle, and I am giggling like an idiot cause what ever murdering/eating aliens happens in the manga seems so comedic to me I just can't stop smiling. The sperm "spaceships travelling" images help with the comedic feeling too, the way aliens are drawn also do its thing.

 

[AnatolianTurk]

All these people weirdly fixated mapping this onto human race, but what sticks out to me is the class warfare. This is literally "eat the rich" privileged class. Like seeing someone even mildly bougie and having no empathy due to spite. There's no moral so far. Nomamoto has no ideology but she starved and now thinks killing is swell. Kitami's whole ideology is a revenge fantasy. Scary true to some punks and revolutionaries.

Since the aliens are so boring looking, and boring as characters, I don't expect this to run many volumes. But it's gonna be messy for a year or two. I'm glad this satire got past Shueisha. No surprise it's a Manga Plus original, seems a mite too incendiary for magazines.

This isnt abt eat the rich

 

[Andigo]

This isnt abt eat the rich

Elaborate maybe. Why even reply if you're saying nothing more than your ❌ already did? Eating the upper caste is happening, lynching them. Class tropes are very common, but I wouldn't say Eat the Rich applies often since Robin Hood scale thefts, mass vandalism, and/or killing wealthy people are controversial. If you don't recognize class antagonism until it reaches Matrix, Andor, or Squid Game levels of blunt and word-of-god confirmation, I think you're missing out on fun.

So we have no moral yet, it's not "about" anything like some sorta allegory. Only an upper caste. And eating. A class conflict, then. A poor girl eating the privileged. Huh.

Maybe "eat the rich" is more sacred to you than I, and this doesn't count because it's not, like, communist or French or something? Not idyllic? Just comedy serial killers, or hooligans wanting to break things, hardly fitting a steelhearted proletariat in organized revolt who deserves the slogan? It'd still be a bad take but better than missing the forest for the trees.

If you've got an actual point to make, go ahead. I'll take it in good faith. Unlike the other guy who got triggered by the mere idea and stalked my unrelated recent posts lol. That telling reaction is your company.

 

[MrDraxs]

this manga has censorship on official english tranlations, english translation should be only unofficial to avoid censorship.

 

[Zach_E60]

Died 2023, Reborn 2024:
Welcome back, "I Get Stronger the More I Eat"

https://imgur.com/a/22cviF5

Except this time, the protagonist's motivation is a lot more personal

 

[Bullard]

North americans need to be banned from the internet you guys are insufferable.
Not everything revolves around your socioeconomic struggles or worldview.

That being said: interesting manga, the art is also good. Hope the author doesn't drop the ball midway through.

 

[Chanasta]

this manga has censorship on official english tranlations

In Japanese she's complaining about people who use the word "aikata". It's similar in that it literally means partner and it's a word for lover that some young people are using that some others find annoying. However unlike "partner" in English it isn't associated with homosexuality or political views. So changing it for non-censorious reasons seems pretty understandable because the original translation has misleading associations that don't reflect the Japanese text.

 

[Grog]

first reply: "guys is this an allegory?"
second reply: "you think allegories exist 😏 really says a lot abt you"

we have failed our youth.

 

[jojoka]

Complaining about "savior" foreigners exploiting you and wanting revenge. Well, I'm far from a history major, but sure I'll take a shot:

• If you're Japanese, then invaders are Americans.
• If you're Korean, then invaders are Japanese.
• If you're Chinese, then invaders, are probably British, Japanese.
• If you're from a bunch of countries around China, then invaders are probably Chinese.

Etc, etc. Every civilization gets invaded.

People talk so much about the British being invaders but when you look at them for about 1000 years they were constantly being invaded and settled. Bretons into Romans, into Anglos, into Vikings, into Normans. It's pretty funny when you think about it, it's a never ending cycle in human history.

 

[Michika]

this manga has censorship on official english tranlations, english translation should be only unofficial to avoid censorship.

If I'm not mistaken, there were a lot of people who said that Nomamoto's comment was homophobic (for some reason) and I guess they changed it because of that?