Read this all in one sitting (it’s definitely not 1:30AM right now…) because it was simply too good to stop. The message is so touching; Arima’s story made my heart break, then melt by the end. Arima, also known as Maria is a genderqueer character who’s gay, and uses he/him pronouns. I thought this as such an important piece of representation with how people under the non-binary umbrella aren’t obligated to be androgynous and use they/them pronouns and whatnot. Not only that, I love to see trans people, especially non-binary people receiving the love they feel they didn’t deserve but definitely needed, especially considering past trauma and past experiences. As sad as this manga was, I felt such a deep connection to the story and how trans people are portrayed. Eguchi then launched the Kimio Alive manga in October 2019 in Monthly Shonen Magazine, and the manga was ongoing. Kodansha published the manga's first compiled volume on April 16 and published the second volume on August 17.

Bị ám ảnh tuổi nhỏ cấu xé, cùng định kiến giới tính quấn thân, Arima cứ lẩn quẩn tìm kiếm con người thật của mình. Chông chênh cô độc trên con đường mịt mùng đó, Arima chỉ còn biết mượn những buổi tập kịch một mình để mạnh mẽ.I suppose they aren't entirely bad characters per se, but rather, multiple (keyword here) melodramatic moments accompanied with a presentation of being very sincere and real didn't quite come across to me as something to take entirely seriously. It's like some unnecessary juxtaposition that didn't really need to exist; it just ruined the validity when it does. Otherwise, I get what was supposed to be presented here, and I will admit that it is good and serviceable. Something that only deserves praise (in which it already does). As I mentioned above, this manga manages to approach its themes with delicacy and at the same time in a visceral way, and this is really a great achievement, because few times, even more so in this anime and manga industry, we can see an author approaching such delicate themes, like child abuse and gender identity, in such a "nice" (if I can use that word) way, and at the same time show, in the most graphic way possible, how these themes can impact a person's life, either in a more lyrical, more idealized way, let's say, or in a more physical, more "palpable" way, you know? Eguchi Kousei has managed to show us these impacts in both ways, in such a way that it is even difficult to distinguish both ways of approaching the theme within our reading of this manga. I apoligize if my grammar is bad, english is not my first language) This is the manga that while reading ive cried the most, it is truly amazing how this manga blossoms into something so out of control to a calm and deserved ending. The way that I began reading this knowing nothing and just laughing of the embarrassment I would get from taiga's interactions to sobbing at them just some few chapters later is what really made this book not just a story line but an expierence. Would reccomend if you want to cry a lot because of how beautifully tragic this story You know that feeling when the world seems like it’s caving in and crumbling around you, suffocating you to the point that you have to curl up to protect yourself? The feeling of helplessness that you started to accept it, then suddenly find a hand being offered right in front of you, promising you that “everything is going to be alright.” and “you are not alone”?

Y es que ese es precisamente el problema: PEYO quiere tratar muchos temas, desde la disforia de género hasta la homosexualidad, la bisexualidad, la pederastia e incluso la violación. Nada de esto se lleva realmente mal; por desgracia, tampoco puedo decir que me haya convencido el resultado. El centro de todas mis diatribas internas es, precisamente, el personaje de Arima/Maria (que voy a llamar así por esa dualidad que parece mostrar hacia el final del manga). Después de un incidente traumático como el que se muestra gráficamente en el manga, me sorprende que actúe de algunas maneras. Comprendo que sea un personaje contradictorio, pero cosas como tener de plato favorito aquel en el que pensaba durante el incidente traumático me hacen arquear una ceja. No niego que pueda suceder; lo que me molesta es que el tomo se vea limitado por su brevedad y no explore este tipo de decisiones de manera significativa. Como superviviente de abuso, Arima/Maria se me antoja demasiado plano/a. ¿Por qué no mostrar el conflicto que deriva de la disforia mezclada con aquel evento? Sin duda, tienen relación. ¿Por qué no profundizar en la evolución del personaje desde el incidente hasta el presente? No me parece que el tema pueda tratarse a la ligera y el manga rebosa en comedia. Me parece perfecto que PEYO emplee el humor para amenizar el tono, pero hay un tiempo y un lugar para usarlo, y algunas escenas parecen rehuir del drama cuando más lo necesitan. Boy Meets Maria has a relatively simple plot, here we have a boy, named Taiga, who has just started his academic life at his new school, and soon falls in love with a person, a supposed actress, who soon realizes that this actress who he thought was a woman, is actually a man, and from there the story develops, showing the difficulties of both people in dealing with this situation. Overall, as I said, the plot is simple, but the main triumph of this manga is using its simple premise to develop its characters, to the point where the premise doesn't matter so much, this story is more about how the characters act on this premise, as well as building their personalities, and how this impacts how they view this situation, and this guides how they will deal with the difficulties in their lives.TLDR: A drama story that's too convenient, not that it is necessarily a problem, but it was to a point where I couldn't really take everything seriously. Otherwise great art, and even if I wasn't the biggest fan, the point came across, and that was enough for me to enjoy it (and should be for literally anyone who isn't cynical). Anzi per il suo stile e l'atmosfera molto matura e seria mi è quasi sembrato un seinen a tematica lgbt che mi ha vagamente ricordato tipo Oltre le onde e She likes homo, not me.

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