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Okay I'm not sure about this, but if you go on the artist's twitter page, I think he proudly exclaims he is part of the 'terrorist organization ANTIFA'

Yeah. Keep that in mind.

This manga is explicitly political, featuring a Native-American MC(though he's stuck in a loli girl's body, obviously) aiming to kill 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. Okay. Ignore that. The manga barely touches on him. This manga is a thinly veiled rant against Japan's authoritarian regime of Abe(in Rui's eyes), the cowardice and malice of the Japanese government, and the lengths the elite will go through to create a veil of ... 'things being OK'. Rui's drunken rage lasts for 9 chapters, each becoming denser than the last(no doubt because it probably got shat on once it got attention), and while the plot is a fucking trainwreck because of that, with randos popping in and out like Whack-A-Moles, it's still aggressively engaging...... sometimes

I consider Takatou Rui to be a Mark Kozelek type character. Boisterous, loud, and with an easily noticed style, Rui's work is gripping and fun.... sometimes. This manga shows this as well. Like 'I Also Want To Die In New Orleans', it feels that Rui didn't take the creation process as seriously in the center part. The manga thus suffers from being less of a political satire and more of a rant(though I don't deny the effort put into trying to create coherency). However, it's satire is quite.... meatless? Most likely due to time constraints, many things had to be simplified. I would have loved to see the conclusion of the American Assassins, and the sequel bait at the end left me wanting more of Rui's rants(Now in America!)

The story covers themes a SJW type(hey that's me!) wouldn't find much problem with. American imperialism , political cronies and the urban hellscape are things Rui alludes to. Key side characters are often strawmen of the problems he feels that Japanese society has. For example, a female politician character is shown to be involved in some deep conspiracies, and all she has to say is a 'uguu I didn't do anything'. The same character also is forced to strip naked by an American assassin. Rui wield's satire like a jackhammer.

Rui's tendency for childish perversion similarly exists, women are often stripped naked(and with visceral detail, I respect how meaty Rui likes his women) , people die in gory ways, and crude sex is splattered like paint on a Pollock. It's crudeness rarely proves a point, yet it works here. A primal manga deserves a primal execution, no?

The manga doesn't give a fuck. It yells about how Abe is a cunt and a cuck, while telling you about how tits feel. It's promptly dragged off by the authorities, but after this experience, you'll find yourself mildly entertained, and perhaps changed by his antics. Rui doesn't provide a solution to the problems he feels Japan has, but he sure as hell made them entertaining to learn about.