It is a known fact that Japanese people do not like foreigners, in fact they call us "gaijin" in a despective way.
As some old Japanese mangakas tend to do back then, using mangas as a way of communicating some problems of nowadays I an exaggerated way is the same as using Occidental comics to explain the differences in society and using them as some sort of "hate speech".
I do not think this manga is hating a specific group of aliens, it is hating them ALL.
I have spoken about this manga with some more people and they are just transmitting the old "hate you all" that some people in the country feels.
But in the end, it is just a comic, it is fantasy, and I doubt you would like to take fantasy as the teal thing (I do not expect to find giant dragons in real life) so even if it is speaking about a matter in society, its not real.
I suggest you drop this kind of mangas if you are going to take it to heart. No drama intended, just my good feelings to you, because there is no worse way of getting stressed than reading something that make you feel bad.
Btw, liked your comment. Thanks for explaining your feelings and opinion about this! ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶
The fact that the aliens are being treated the way they treat their own gives foreigners to you? They literally pulled a "aliens apartments only" in Japan they do a "no foreigners allowed". They treat the aliens as gods because they "rescued" them. If anything this resembles colonization.
There are some japaneses nowadays that let foreigners visit, and there are some "foreigner places" so they can go there... But they're not allowed to go "deeper". This is where the resemblance with reality stops.
What I tried to explain is that the story may be based in the feeling that "foreigners are invading us", as such feeling has been transmitted to me from different people due to the cultural difference.
As for the plot, aliens, of course they have colonized the earth and it looks like a big invasion in their face without no shame. It is interesting that they have shared their technology, but the abuse, the media showing places "only for aliens" and how people seem to be delegated to sad poor jobs earning shit, weighs more than any "good intention" or "saving them* as they did in the past. I agree with you xD
And sorry if I have not explained myself correctly, I am not a native English speaker, so maybe I wrote something incorrectly or missed some points of your explanation. Still, thank you for answering (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
Oh btw now I understand what you mean about the rethoric with "partner". I am not sure about this, but it could be a perfect simile or just a matter of translation. Seeing that the feeling it gives you is pure rage, it could be possible xD
Given the xenophobic and anti-immigrant views of Japan, this feels just… wrong. The aliens speak a different language, they are tall and look different, they’re rude and don’t adhere to local rules - all talking points used when it comes to immigrants, especially in Japan.
While I do understand that there’s a surge in rude TOURISTS in Japan due to the covid restrictions going down, immigrants are still a minority and most of them go through a lot to even come to the country.
So, the two main characters decide to eat and kill aliens for being rude and entitled?.. Also these two literally kill a random group of aliens that haven’t even done anything remotely wrong - they were just walking down the street. Even if you see them as different from immigrants and just aliens, them killing and eating a group of sentient creatures because they dared to walk down the street is hella weird and doesn’t make me sympathetic to them. Also it doesn’t help that most people seem to love aliens and have relationships with them, so clearly these aliens have a level of “humanity”.
I’m not sure about the partner vs. boyfriend part as this’s is a translation but could this be an anti LGBTQ+ rhetoric perhaps? Not sure.