Drama Queen Chapter 1 Discussion

Black comedy about a racist serial killer cannibal Bonnie and Clyde power couple fighting the government and committing hate crimes.

This shit is so off the wall and absurd. I kinda dig it.

Very clearly a critique/satire of Japan's xenophobia and racism.

The main characters are full on psychopaths and "drama queens".
If the story goes where I think it will this might be good.

There is already Twitter drama…

I hate tourists

This shit is hilarious. People are so soft lmao

@Yuri_Niji I think people are fine to express their feelings on a series, but the reaches are a little entertaining to say the least considering it's literally a single chapter only being published right now. Regardless, someone felt emotion reading a manga, that's all that matters really.

@EtherLux

Its very clearly not.

Its actually an anti-colonialism story from the perspective of the colonized and oppressed.

The aliens came to earth as "saviors" having saved the earth from a meteor (which the male MC says they could have made up / staged), gave gifts of technology, then usurped power and control. Afterward they oppressed the humans as the working class, stole the resources, and have zero accountability allowing them to get away with murder as most humans either worship them or fear them.

That is literally textbook colonialism that has been documented for centuries.

The MCs are basically fighting for their freedom from oppression and literally "eating the rich". That is completely different from "Japanese xenophobia".

@Dragosama Soft? Nah it is legit two unlikable characters who become criminals within one chapter. It's funny though as I'm interested to see how they will justify their awful behavior because all of their good points fall a part when you legit commit murder. Kitami legit committed a hate crime. LOL! Thy did the speedrun to unlikable characters.

@JoelSavvi Honestly, I think that taking what the main characters say at face value isn't the right approach to understanding the story, considering how they're both murderers targeting aliens. The talk about the meteorite being faked is, at least in my opinion, supposed to parallel holocaust denial and also the 2 people saying it are obviously racist so it should be taken with a grain of salt. The worst things humans have to experience is alien only apartments and having to pay for parking while aliens don't which is not even close to being an oppressive colonialist society. The only reason the MC is poor is because they work a shitty job, not because she's oppressed by aliens. Most of the aliens in the story don't even behave especially colonialist, most of them are just assholes who do regular asshole stuff(drunk drive, bump into people and not apologize, being a shitty boss). Despite this, she constantly blames all of her problems on aliens and feels no remorse as they commit cannibalism and murder aliens because they don't see them as humans only because they annoy her, hence the title of drama queen. It's still too early to tell if the author is trying to make a villain MC or if they genuinely believe they're in the right, but calling it anti-colonialist is kinda absurd

maybe the author is a hack and titled the manga as "Drama Queen" because he knows shonen fans are a bunch of reactionary babies who cry online? 😅

call that a Shounen Jump+to+conclusions

@Weebookey We gotta stop calling people tourists because they have opinions we don't like.

@MasterHavik yea and? You’re acting like manga with fucked up main characters don’t exist lmao. If you think this is bad don’t ever read Homunculus or Punpun.

@MasterHavik I've never said that but sure.

@Dragosama This is legit sidestepping my point. It's not very well written and this isn't how you sale a story to someone if everyone is unlikable and your goal is to justify the shitty behavior. I'm not acting like characters like that don't exist but you usually kind of wait a couple of chapters to do that. The problem with this story is if the goal is to get me to root for them that has fallen a part already as you are making clear they are just bigoted assholes with a jaded worldview. So saying, "Yeah and?" Is very childish and kind of shows a lack of media literacy with you my man. You gotta make your characters likable. This is why people had an issue with Redo of Healer and even Re:Monster. The story is frame to get you to root for them as the author justifies their actions. This author is doing the same thing. That's not very good writing and you are just pushing your obvious anti-immigration agenda onto the reader. Some of you kids will learn one day how to write likable characters. Just don't do from writers like this.

@BruhFunny69

Its about the oppressed fighting back agaisnt their colonizers and literally "eating the rich".