This is too good! great story line, i feel it is incredibly realistic, it depicts every perspective and the outcomes of the envrionement (Parents views and upbringing etc) I could write a whole essay on this but I will limit myself. Read at your own risk, it may get long also will have spoilres if you havent read it yet).
I like how the author/artist really looks at all different parts of the spectrum and clearly shows how large an impact parents and upbrining have on a child/teenager. The ones that were able to open up and accept who they were, were the ones with open parents. The one who didn't was because there was too much pressure. Even if in the end she did seem like she was willing to accept, she still wasnt sure whether or not she was making the right decision, even if she did just want Kirino to be happy, she was crying and still a little unwilling, and her fainting due to the anxiety, I think also put a lot of pressure on Kirino, making it difficult to continue that road. So locking everything back into the pandora box and handing the lipstick back to Mishima.
Another thing i want to say about how the author/artist looks at the different reactions of family, is that it is nice to see a manga that portrays not only one type of family. Seeing how every family is different and not all just homophobic or all accepting. It looks at all different types which i think is incredibly eye opening and realistic as not all families are the same. On the same note we can also see how everyone deals with their journey of self discovery.
Mishima who is pretty accepting and accepted himself from pretty much the beginning, he is the one with a pandora box that is already slightly ajar, even if he has troubles with telling his mom about it, you can see in his school he doesnt really deny it that much like taoru or kirino. Kirino on the other hand had a tightly locked pandora box, afraid to open up, bullies Mishima in hopes of locking up her box even tighter, hoping that by bullying him, she will be able to bully that pandora box she has in it and start to hate everything and go back to being "normal". What she really wanted was just recognition, the incident with the lipstick on the rooftop really helped her open up and be able to talk to someone about everything he has been bottling up. But due to his high need to be recognized and not be thought of as weird, her mom's comment and her fainting was a very big blow on kirino. Forcing the box to close up once again, shut tight in order to not make her mother cry and to be able to see her smile. Last but not least Tarou, who didnt even know he had a pandora box of sorts, he bullied mishima in hopes to be able to test his feelings to be able to touch mishima without really realising, he only really opened up the box once the cave incident happend. He had to go through a year long period to really figure everything out, he knew he like mishima, but at the same time was afraid that he wasn't normal. His mom was shocked at the question at first but did not reject the idea, and told him a little later that it doesnt really matter that love is love, which allowed him to really take a second glance at who he was and really deal with all of his emotions and researches about being gay, to check and think about everything he censored out of his mind in the hopes of being "normal" (The cave scene and where he talks to Kirino about how he imagined himself with Mishimo but not really as a guy, just a person without boobs.) He later came to accept who he was and is in a great, healthy relationship with Mishimo.
Conclusion, i love how the artist/mangaka puts in the effort to make this a very realistic manga, from different perspectives. Loved it so much! Well done!! <3 If anyone read this far: thank you for putting up with my mind diarrhea :D
This is too good! great story line, i feel it is incredibly realistic, it depicts every perspective and the outcomes of the envrionement (Parents views and upbringing etc) I could write a whole essay on this but I will limit myself. Read at your own risk, it may get long also will have spoilres if you havent read it yet).
I like how the author/artist really looks at all different parts of the spectrum and clearly shows how large an impact parents and upbrining have on a child/teenager. The ones that were able to open up and accept who they were, were the ones with open parents. The one who didn't was because there was too much pressure. Even if in the end she did seem like she was willing to accept, she still wasnt sure whether or not she was making the right decision, even if she did just want Kirino to be happy, she was crying and still a little unwilling, and her fainting due to the anxiety, I think also put a lot of pressure on Kirino, making it difficult to continue that road. So locking everything back into the pandora box and handing the lipstick back to Mishima.
Another thing i want to say about how the author/artist looks at the different reactions of family, is that it is nice to see a manga that portrays not only one type of family. Seeing how every family is different and not all just homophobic or all accepting. It looks at all different types which i think is incredibly eye opening and realistic as not all families are the same. On the same note we can also see how everyone deals with their journey of self discovery.
Mishima who is pretty accepting and accepted himself from pretty much the beginning, he is the one with a pandora box that is already slightly ajar, even if he has troubles with telling his mom about it, you can see in his school he doesnt really deny it that much like taoru or kirino. Kirino on the other hand had a tightly locked pandora box, afraid to open up, bullies Mishima in hopes of locking up her box even tighter, hoping that by bullying him, she will be able to bully that pandora box she has in it and start to hate everything and go back to being "normal". What she really wanted was just recognition, the incident with the lipstick on the rooftop really helped her open up and be able to talk to someone about everything he has been bottling up. But due to his high need to be recognized and not be thought of as weird, her mom's comment and her fainting was a very big blow on kirino. Forcing the box to close up once again, shut tight in order to not make her mother cry and to be able to see her smile. Last but not least Tarou, who didnt even know he had a pandora box of sorts, he bullied mishima in hopes to be able to test his feelings to be able to touch mishima without really realising, he only really opened up the box once the cave incident happend. He had to go through a year long period to really figure everything out, he knew he like mishima, but at the same time was afraid that he wasn't normal. His mom was shocked at the question at first but did not reject the idea, and told him a little later that it doesnt really matter that love is love, which allowed him to really take a second glance at who he was and really deal with all of his emotions and researches about being gay, to check and think about everything he censored out of his mind in the hopes of being "normal" (The cave scene and where he talks to Kirino about how he imagined himself with Mishimo but not really as a guy, just a person without boobs.) He later came to accept who he was and is in a great, healthy relationship with Mishimo.
Conclusion, i love how the artist/mangaka puts in the effort to make this a very realistic manga, from different perspectives. Loved it so much! Well done!! <3 If anyone read this far: thank you for putting up with my mind diarrhea :D