(as a comedic foil he acts like a complete fool and calls a cis gay man a woman... hmmm my credulous friend shinomiya is so gullible, hmmmm he thinks this individual is my stepfather... hmmmm wait what if i get him to think this is my lady dad? what if i say he's my mom and not just my adoptive mother figure... what if i'm as f-cking confusing as possible??? so edgy. wow) yeah there's sooo much interesting characterisation but aaaaaaargh... YMMV but i don't think that the subversiveness came across! i even got offended the 2nd time i read this through but. like i said, it all depends on the mindframe u are in when u open the tankobon and read through it i think?

#yourmileagemayvary

The way that romeo and juliet was described by a critic as a story about the madness of being young and in love "as youth sees it" rather than as mature adults with common ----king sense kind of applies. but still, watch out for the slur, and for other childish not-very-edgy jokes lol. it gets to the point that you can sit there and think the author is 100% playing loose and fast with people's sexuality and conflating sexual orientation with gender... it'd be interesting for someone that is actually part of the trans and nonbinary population to tackle a similar narrative because this reads as some basic ignorance to me. in my early draft of this review i said i would love to take my transmasculine booty to japan and talk to the author "with love and respect" i said. in 2016 i was so angry. i just see it as corny now. it's just...pure ignorance to be honest, and maybe it will seem more and more like outdated, regressive laziness going into the 2020s, depending on how sexual minorities organize in that part of the world as well as globally. personally, i hope that it will seem more careless, clumsy and culturally irrelevant...in that case, that's the burden of the author, and not mine--and that's why, 3 years later, i still like that edgy bit and can forgive the characters. i hope kurosawa knows better and does better and just is better! if you're of a similar mindset and don't want that noise, do keep it in mind! otherwise,