Fiction often draws from and comments on reality
But this is obviously not the case for this manga :) it’s a classic sci-fi trope seen numerous times. Fiction doesn’t always reflect reality. Sometimes is just that, FICTION.
has the author come out and said that this was not their intention withthe story?
Must you ask a cow if it is a cow? No, some things can be seen simply by
people can like the manga and also see that it contains themes from real life. Not every manga has to be about rainbow and sunshine. Some can actually reference things that happened in the real world most do. It’s not about separating real life from fiction. It’s about recognizing when fiction represents real life
If you wanna believe this manga is taking no reference from real life themes and the ideas are just completely of the authors imagination go ahead. It’s up to interpretation but because it’s up to interpretation, there’s no real way to interpret it. Don’t be mad at people for interpreting it in a different way that you do. that’s like lesson number one when it comes to media literacy.
I don’t know why y’all are acting like it’s an insane concept for a manga to depict racism like it’s happened before and it will happen again.
The war over this manga is proof that there is a problem with severe chronically online behavior. The fact that people can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality. The manga is LITERALLY about eating the rich and killing your suppressors. Why is it that when they’re a different species instead of human people are suddenly mad? Xenophobia? My brother in Christ they are neither humans or original inhabitants of earth, it’d be colonialism if anything. Tell me you didn’t pass high school English without telling me you didn’t pass high school English. If you don’t like, don’t read, end of story.