
I Can't say no to the Lonely Girl, it's a simple yet refeshing romance to read.
In this review i will try to discuss about the themes and topics that the manga touched and developed through it's history, naturally that will be spoiler ahead, and i recommend you to check it out in case if you don't had read it.
I Can't Say no to the Lonely Girl starts with a really simple pespective: Sora is a loner, which had fall in love with Ayaka, a model student which is popular and good and most of everything, but with one defect. She can't handle doing things under pressure, which leads her to failing and staying a local school.
Esagawa-sensei, her teacher, seeing her effort yet her problems with exams, makes a proposition, that if she can return the missing student (which not to later, is revelead to be sora itself) she will write a recommedation letter for her.
Ayaka with sucess, returns the student to the school, but not without any catch. Sora knew her ulterior motivation to which lead for pursuing her, and takes advantage of it.
Sora will continue to go school, but only if Ayaka accept her daily wish, and for that day, it's a kiss.
The history will develop as the requests are being made, and changing their relationship and making they grow as person in the process.
One of the main themes that i feel in "I Can't Say no to the Lonely Girl" is the capacity of changing itself after understading your own feelings.
A queer relationship itself it's a challenge, but being able to acknowledge your own feelings and still confess, can a door-opening experience.
When Ayaka understands her own feelings about Sora, and how special she can be, not only she makes a decision right a way, but later this makes her question what she really wanted to do with her life after all.
Being born in a family of just professors made her mind believe that she need to pursue the same carrer, in the same way, but after such difficult choices her mind in a natural manner questions this way of thinking.
In our society we are constantly expected to behave in a way that fit under certain standarts without us even knowing, that's extends the topic not just from a queer pespective, but it invite us to see the true reason we are making our own actions.
Are we are really making this action by our own reasons? Or It is because it was forced upon us? Or It was because were are to afraid to act?
The reflection and the denaturalization of a "standart" way to behave and think that truly makes Ayaka grow herself and her relationship.
That, i feel, is such a simple yet strong reflection that i need to share it here.
In the end, I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl is easily of my favorites, it's a light-hearted and cute romance, yet it touches in important themes.
Definitely a 9/10!
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