Incidentally, speaking myself, as a non-LGBT person, “My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness” is really fantastic.

  • peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Can confirm, “my lesbian experience with loneliness” is gold. I’d recommend it even to people who aren’t accustomed to reading comics or manga. Masterpiece autobiographical literature.

    I’ve read most of these. Here are my unsolicited reviews:

    “I’m in love with the villainous?” I read the first 2 books, and the flipped perspective companion series. It’s almost genius in the way it stops to directly address the reader and break down the lesbian experience directly in a meta sort of way, but ultimately it is a wish fulfillment lesbian fantasy that doesn’t take it’s fictional conciet to it’s natural endpoint, imo (the main character is a lovable psycho, and they don’t really reckon with the psycho part. I really wish they would.)

    “The guy I was interested in wasn’t a guy at all” Best manga art I’ve seen in a long time. It oozes style and pretty, simple queerness. The format is not as long. It’s more like a weekly strip, sometimes, and my biggest fault with it is I wanted to see longer plot arcs play out uninterrupted. I could just flip through pages of this manga without reading and melt at all the pretty stars, interesting expressions, and stylish outfits. Maybe, if I could complain about one thing, everyone is so hot in this manga that it legit is a bit annoying.

    “Yamada and Kase-san” is very, very cute. It’s wholesome, not overly dramatic, and very gay. The characters aren’t anything too new, but it manages to feel more authentic than most other slice of life Yuri manga. The art is great, too.

    “Bloom into you.” I’ve tried so many times to read this one, because everyone recommends it constantly, but I think I’ve got too much dude energy or something because I don’t like it. Sorry!

    Anyway, read them all, peeps.

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    God, it was so much simpler when they just planted a Shirley Bassey CD on you