What do the aliens symbolize?

What are the aliens?

Dec 3, 2024 12:15 AM

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There seems to be confusion surrounding what the author believes the aliens to symbolize, and there's two ways you can look into it: it's either immigrants or colonizers.

The case for aliens representing colonizers can be supported by a number of details: their introduction of new technology, the oppressed/opressor dynamic, the symbolic eating of the rich, the reverance for the aliens as benevolent gods, their depiction as wealthy atop the workplace and social hierarchy, their impunity, the discriminatory policies that favor them, aversion to conflict with other planets, the fixation on low wages. If the author introduced a disease the aliens were immune to it would further solidify the case.

On the other hand, you could also say that the story's emphasis on censorship suggests the aliens are immigrants, as well you could argue some of the previously mentioned details such as the horing policies could support either case.

Dec 3, 2024 12:42 AM

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I think it’s sorta both. The aliens, as a message, seem to represent legally protected minorities as a whole, with a huge emphasis on immigrants.

The protagonists’s talking points could all be applied to any legally protected minority that is taking their jobs, being unfairly protected by government and is effectively invulnerable by law.

To be specific, tho, I don’t think the author really gives a shit about the nuances in this case lmao. I got the felling he was talking about foreigners as a whole.

I expected the take to be more nuanced than most of us expect, tho. The first chapters raised a lot of very good points but it ended with such an overreaction by the protagonist that you can’t help but remember that the tittle is “drama queen”.

My guess is that the author is actually left leaning, but is trying REALLY HARD to understand the right and make for a better discussion, which is the overall message comes out as right leaning (because when you actually lay out the facts, it’s sorta hard to fully disagree with the right lmao).

Dec 3, 2024 3:06 AM

Dhaarok

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What was the point of making a poll with the same 2 options.

Dec 3, 2024 3:15 AM

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Neither..I hope. If the aliens were supposed to symbolize any real world race/group colonizers or not then the author should be banned from making manga lol

Dec 3, 2024 7:52 AM

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Small hats people

Dec 3, 2024 8:58 AM

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Colonizers/Gentrifiers.

It's a story about punching up instead of punching down even if the reasons to do so will probably be challenged later on.

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Dec 3, 2024 9:22 AM

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Those aren't really mutually exclusive terms. Colonizers can be immigrants. Obivously there is some anti colonialist rhetoric since the aliens aren't just poor shitters living in ghettos but are in a higher political class than the native japanese.

Dec 3, 2024 10:37 AM

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Basing it solely on colonization seems to be a faulty argument presented by people who really like the first chapter to save it from criticism. Most of the aliens in the first chapter don't seem to hold power and are just normal citizens. The 2 characters hate aliens regardless of status, it's more focused on general hatred for the foreign rather than hate of oppression by colonizers. If the author truly wanted it to be about colonization, then go the Gintama route of having the main characters oppose a alien government being unfair. But no, the main characters literally want all the aliens gone, no matter if they are colonizers or not.

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Dec 3, 2024 2:41 PM

HansDevX

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Why not the 3rd option... invasion? You are a genius for creating a topic that can end up in a flame war.

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Dec 3, 2024 4:33 PM

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Small hats people

And here I was thinking I was the only one who had that thought

Dec 5, 2024 4:04 PM

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They sembolize the colonizers. Imagine being a tribe in old america and settlers first use dirty blankets to infect your kind then give you cure.
People who think its sembolizes immigrants are racist

Dec 6, 2024 10:01 AM

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Necrius

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I think they symbolize modern "protected minorities". They're getting praise and special treatment, while the great feat they are praised for could be fake or staged.

Dec 6, 2024 5:12 PM

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Cielord

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I clicked Immigrants because I think it's way funnier and based if it's an anti-immigration manga. Aside from superior technology, the author pretty much nailed everything right on what makes immigrants a disease.

But personally, at this point, I don't think the aliens are meant to symbolize anything. People always have to search real-life parallels for everything, and sometimes there aren't. Maybe the simple and boring answer is that the author simply created a detestable group so they will be detested.

Dec 6, 2024 6:34 PM

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Twiist

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They symbolize my mama's burger steak because they're delicious

Dec 9, 2024 3:20 AM

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secondtooth

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It can be both. In some people's minds, all immigrants are colonizers.

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