R15+ Ja Dame Desuka? - Vol. 4 Ch. 30 - Rejected

[outinthegardener]

I remember the Showgirls controversy. The content wasn't very shocking, but the context made it a target. Namely the "cultural family values conservatism" of the time meant to stir up sentiment against the Clinton Administration, and the fact that the main character was played by Elizabeth Berkely, best known for playing a pure high school student in Saved by the Bell. The symbolism of Berkely as a high school girl becoming a topless sex symbol was a ripe target to complain about "The decay of moral values" or some bullshit.

 

[Evangelear]

Yeah burn him. Burn his "script" too.

Actually no, don't. Bring that to the teachers or the police or something, filming underage nudity's gotta get at least some attention even in the cartoonishly neglecting environments mangas tend to paint.

 

[themangaweeaboo]

Hammers? Saws? 9mm? Give us the word boss

 

[RakshaJaeger]

Well at least she's not dumb and blind about is real aim. I hope they get some punishment for what they did, but in the end they did nothing yet , so it's very unlikely

 

[Pouco-chan]

Oh, so they really go down the cliché route. I'm disappointed. Is it that hard to make a manga shounen, about a movie club, romcom with teenagers?~
Thks for the tl~

 

[shinshom]

leave them pls pls pls

 

[Kknewkles]

Twist his right ball clockwise and counter-clockwise for his left ball.

Until you hear a loud snap! Twice! 😂

 

[A-xelis]

bruh u a high school student director
not Final Destination director

 

[MrIncognito]

bruh u a high school student director
not Final Destination director

I hope he's a Final Destination director, personally.

Specifically, a director that gets Final Destination'd

 

[BobBob]

Okay, but how does all of this connect to her ADHD from before? Was she just really frustrated with movies after writing a bunch of rejected screenplays? Or was she always like this and Umeki just never called her on it because he just wanted to film her naked?

 

[Ravinous]

Starship Troopers in anime form?
You mean Blue Gender?
https://myanimelist.net/anime/58/Blue_Gender

Or, you know, the Bandai Visual Starship Troopers anime from the 70s/80s. It even came on Laserdisc.

 

[GastrointestinalLot]

no diddy bro, NO UMEKI BRO

 

[outinthegardener]

And this about Umeki; It'd be one thing if he had an artistic vision that involved nudity, and he sought active consent from a legal adult. But what he's doing has no artistic vision (just a desire for spectacle) and he's being a manipulative creep. He actively sought a lonely, awkward, girl and is trying to use shame and fear to film her nude. He's fully aware she doesn't want to and he's still trying to force her into it.

Absolute teenage shit stain. Skidmark. Smeared up turtle head. Forbidden chocopie. Choco-semen smoothie.

 

[horsewithnoname]

That umeki guy can go eat shit and die in a hole

 

[Brackass]

Umeki seems kind of cartoonishly villainous in a shallow way but um I guess a positive thing I can say is that I'm glad Ena isn't written to be so dumb that she'd go along with filming his movie (instead she at least catches onto the fact that he's not and never was an actual friend to her).

I like the art and the topic in this, the character writing seems a bit iffy.

 

[CheesiBoye]

bruh u a high school student director
not Final Destination director

Yeah, he clearly puts nudity as a platonic ideal and conflates his lack of experience with it for something interesting artistically. I think the author skirting around the actual script is probably going to open it up to an arc where the whole film club just shits on his script for how shallow it actually is. If they don't atleast do that, this has lost the plot and went down pure tropes for this arc.

 

[b-no]

I thought I was reading a hentai for a moment.

 

[Lemonke0119]

SAVE HER AND KILL HIM

 

[Nosebleed]

Please god don't let this be another manga where the sexual predators get off practically scott free, please just once let there be real consequences like expulsion or juvie for umeki and the entire video production club

Spoiler

A LOOOOT of people are gonna be disappointed with the outcome of this arc.

 

[blz_isk]

I remember the Showgirls controversy. The content wasn't very shocking, but the context made it a target. Namely the "cultural family values conservatism" of the time meant to stir up sentiment against the Clinton Administration, and the fact that the main character was played by Elizabeth Berkely, best known for playing a pure high school student in Saved by the Bell. The symbolism of Berkely as a high school girl becoming a topless sex symbol was a ripe target to complain about "The decay of moral values" or some bullshit.

Another part is it's a Paul Verhoeven film, which means 99% of the people that watch it just take everything at face value and ignore the satire.