● This manga deals with heavy themes such as depression, self-harm, eating disorders, and suicidal thoughts. If you feel like those themes are sensitive topics for you, please skip the manga. If you are struggling with any issue, call your country's hotline. Take care ♡.
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The Story ════ ⋆★⋆ ════ Kabi feels totally lost after graduating from high school. Losing her sense of self and having no aspirations, she start spiraling down, now she has to look for what's the meaning of self and how to exist in society.The story of My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness is really good. I honestly didn't expect much, but I was positively surprised because the author lays down her biography in a pretty raw way. By reading this work, you feel like a close friend is telling you their deepest struggles.One thing that I really would like to mention is how the author explores and talks about her sexuality. Although I do support LGBTQIA+, I don't understand a large part of it as I am not part of it. The way that the author talks about her queerness and lesbianism was pretty interesting for me to read. I was able to understand her point of view and empathize with her.
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The Art Style ════ ⋆★⋆ ════ The art style, although simple, is really good. Most of the time, there's no background and we're facing the author's struggles and thoughts. Her facial expressions are really well done.
Now, what really takes this work to the next level and puts it on really well for me is how she artistically describes her emotional struggle through art. If you have ever tried to write about emotions, you know how hard it is to describe something like happiness or sadness without using these words.
(me-irl)The author is able to explain deep emotional and mental struggles (like social pressure, her many "selfs," and even self-harming) through her doodles and words. It's something outstanding that I personally think makes it easier to empathize with her struggles.
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The Characters ════ ⋆★⋆ ════ There are a small number of characters in this work. Kabi, her parents, and a few supporting characters. Nothing besides Kabi is developed, but that's expected in an autobiography.As I always like to talk about the main characters, Kabi was amazing. Autobiography without hiding all the dark parts of herself. I couldn't ask for anything else.
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★EDIT: After further looking into my list and through all the talk I had with a lot of people post-review, I changed the previous score from 8 to 8.6.
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