The sauce is <How do we relationship> . People who have seen a lot of my posts on here will be familiar with this manga. It is, in my opinion, not only the greatest queer manga of all time, but also the greatest romance manga of all time. A lot of great queer manga are manga that I would generally mostly recommend to fellow queer people and people interested specifically in reading queer stories. They tend to be extremely issue focused by nature. On the flip side, a lot of romance manga are understandably written for a more general audience, and so I will generally just recommend them exclusively on the merits of the romance. How do we relationship manages to not just find a balance between both extremes, but to excel in both fields. Not only does it have a presentation of queer issues that is as intelligent and resonant as the likes of <dear society>, <boys run the riot>, or <Until I meet my husband>, it also manages to have characters and scenarios written in a more nuanced and realistic way than any other manga I have ever read.
HDWR is excellent because of its resolute commitment to writing characters and situations that feel like real people in a way no other manga really comes close to imo. This results in its portrayal of human relationships being some of the most painful and also the most uplifting I have ever seen without it ever needing to be trauma porn on one hand or a pure fluff fest on the other. This story has legitimately ruined most romance manga for me. It is the most irl manga of all anime_irl, and I will absolutely die on that hill.
The scene posted above is one such example of HDWR’s commitment to resonant and realistic writing. For context, this conversation occurs after our protagonist Miwa discusses her experiences as a lesbian with a group of her friends in an open fashion.
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The sauce is <How do we relationship> . People who have seen a lot of my posts on here will be familiar with this manga. It is, in my opinion, not only the greatest queer manga of all time, but also the greatest romance manga of all time. A lot of great queer manga are manga that I would generally mostly recommend to fellow queer people and people interested specifically in reading queer stories. They tend to be extremely issue focused by nature. On the flip side, a lot of romance manga are understandably written for a more general audience, and so I will generally just recommend them exclusively on the merits of the romance. How do we relationship manages to not just find a balance between both extremes, but to excel in both fields. Not only does it have a presentation of queer issues that is as intelligent and resonant as the likes of <dear society>, <boys run the riot>, or <Until I meet my husband>, it also manages to have characters and scenarios written in a more nuanced and realistic way than any other manga I have ever read.
HDWR is excellent because of its resolute commitment to writing characters and situations that feel like real people in a way no other manga really comes close to imo. This results in its portrayal of human relationships being some of the most painful and also the most uplifting I have ever seen without it ever needing to be trauma porn on one hand or a pure fluff fest on the other. This story has legitimately ruined most romance manga for me. It is the most irl manga of all anime_irl, and I will absolutely die on that hill.
The scene posted above is one such example of HDWR’s commitment to resonant and realistic writing. For context, this conversation occurs after our protagonist Miwa discusses her experiences as a lesbian with a group of her friends in an open fashion.