personal favourites

yaoi without explicitly saying it's yaoi. the subtlety. the depraved underpinnings... the humor! wayama is a slice of life god...

such a small part of your life can be so big!!!!! and they will always remember one another! the restraint and understated tenderness...

a classic! incredibly unique art. a simple story that shines in its execution.

handles trauma in a thoughtful way. deals with messy love triangles and adult love. funny! unique art.

growing up and giving up. gender and identity. a multi-faceted depiction of queerness and sexual abuse. though it's a love triangle, never feels contrived. just the sweet complications of middle school love. not perfect, and maybe messy, but formative, for me.

"if i'm half boy, maybe someone like you who's half girl is just perfect for me... "
yuki's confused sense of self and femininity, kaito's fluid gender expression, and mikako's masks and trauma crashing in on her. we're all just trying to figure it out, right?

so lonely and intimate and funny!!! delightfully irreverent, but never shallow. floated through this like it was the lazy river. what if an incredibly handsome autistic japanese salary man went looking for meaning amidst his dull existence while running away from himself?

not fully uploaded onto mangago for whatever reason but love the emotional delicacy and dimensionality of the characters

one of the most viscerally unsettling manga i've ever read. oshimi at his most affecting and haunting as he tackles the intimate horror of betrayal from the person who's supposed to love and care for you the most. i feel scooped out. don't know if this is one i'll ever re-read but it'll stay with me...

incomplete but the power dynamics between student and professor are so well done in the initial arcs i'm fully invested. so patiently marinated as to extract the best flavours. beautiful artwork, and yearning and toxicity and GROWTH and CHANGE!