Forum - View topicREVIEW: I Want to Be a Wall GN 2
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Toyokaaaa
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The way I see it, Gakurouta is meant to be audience's surrogate: he learns about asexual spectrum, BL and other LGBT-related topics thanks to other characters. He's not the main protagonist, Yuriko is. There's no need to explain Gakurouta's identity: he's a gay guy with a crush on his friend. Most people know what homosexuality is.There's plenty of manga about that too(it's not even limited to BL). Meanwhile, stories about asexuality are few and far between. Many people still don't know asexuality exist or think it's not real. So I'm glad the story didn't push Yuriko to the side. I already related to her after volume 1, but volume 2 explored her emotions and struggles so beautifully! In my eyes, this manga skyrocketed in rep and not "tank" it. |
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Princess_Irene
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Believe me, I know personally how asexuality gets brushed aside or written off. That's why I love this series. I didn't mean to imply that this second volume was in any way less good than the first, I just meant that even if it does later, these two volumes stand at the pinnacle of LGBTQIA+ manga. And fiction in general.
I had been thinking of Gakurouta and Yuriko as co-protagonists, but I like your interpretation - it makes a lot of sense. |
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Dumas1
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This quickly became one of my favourite manga after I took a chance on vol. 1 last year. I don't quite remember how I heard about it, but the premise sounded fascinating. Marriage is almost always used as an endpoint for romances and few couples' stories go on to portray the process of living and growing together. A loving relationship without romance or sexual attraction is also something I've rarely seen portrayed.
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catandmouse
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I just read “Is love the answer?” And I’ve heard of this series before as well, but I have never read it. Now I want to check it out.
Glad to see that there are slowly coming out with asexual stories that actually portray asexuality well as opposed to treating it like a phase or something else. |
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Shay Guy
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Another series that might be worth keeping an eye on is Osananajimi no Ohimesama, which started in Shonen Champion a few months ago. I say "might" because a lot of readers are interpreting the childhood friend character as your typical "doesn't realize she's in love with the main character" type, hence her being annoyed both with the two of them being constantly mistaken for a couple and with his falling for another girl at first sight…
…except that she may well be straight-up aromantic, going by what she actually says about thinking the people around her are weirdos for being so obsessed with this "love" business, and resenting that she, until now the guy's only friend, put years of effort into her relationship with him and "love" apparently lets the other girl just skip all that. |
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