I first read and fell in love with Qualia the Purple sometime during college in one of my insomnia fugues. It was amazing, I finished it sometime in the late hours of the night and went to sleep knowing I’d forget all the Quantum Physics and Qualia and everything else and just stay with the love Gaku had for Yukari.

Fast forward a near decade and I saw it got officially licensed, put the manga on my to buy list and got the novel for Christmas last year. The manga itself went through a lot of mishaps and reorders and I only got to read it 9 months later.

And when I get it it’s a goddamn 618 page brick! I read it all again in two hours! Feeling the exact same way! I’m not so sleep deprived I won’t retain the concepts this time around but it was the same gut punch and it made me happy!

Qualia the Purple really is the peakest of Yuri. The very essence of it. I just think you should read it. It’s amazing.