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2.5. Rounded up because this is one of the very few books out there that has a straight transmasc MC. The theater culture stuff is good, and I can tell all of that is coming from a place of passion by the author.

August isn’t very likable. Not in a dumb teenage way, but in a ‘hon, you need therapy way’

Starts out decently enough, I thought, but maybe I was just willfully ignoring the problems out of desperation. Hurt/comfort cowboy mlm isn’t the most popular genre, and in a lot of cases I’m happy to just take what I can get.

This isn’t written very well. Dialogue is forced and robotic and there’s a hell of a lot more telling than showing especially the closer you get to the end. You know that once you’ve introduced a sick kid in a hospital, it’s all over.

Suspension of belief is par for the course in this kinda thing, but it is really hard for me to buy that Logan somehow immediately knows all of the ins and outs of gay sex with zero experience.

Good pickings here! Love the queer focus and experimental styles on display.

This was one of those ‘I gotta read this at some point’ books, and I’m so glad I did. Really charming little story about grief and pushing back against social norms. I also just love how Tagame draws men. He’s like the MVP of bara art.

Love the way this series is progressing and its display of good allyship. Tomoko loves her son and continues to be supportive as she can, confronting her husband’s homophobia in a way that doesn’t out Hiroki.

Okura wrote in the afterword of this volume that he ended up coming out to his own mom while this manga was ongoing, and that’s just icing on the cake for how much I love this series.

The mother character never pushes her son to come out before he’s ready, and she tries to be supportive in ways that don’t let on what she has already intuited herself. I don’t know, as someone who has a lot of childhood emotional trauma from my own mom, there’s just something really healing I can get from something like this.

Very sweet and small. I’m so happy that this is as positive as it is, and that there isn’t angst overshadowing it. The art has this bubbly, soft feeling that accentuates the the gentle slice of life vibe.