One of the only drawbacks of this memoir is that readers will not learn a lot about the long and complex history of LGBTQ culture in Japan, but on the other hand it is hard to imagine inserting a bunch of hard facts without sullying a story so deeply personal.In any regard, My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness is a short but emotionally deep edition to a small but growing niche of LGBTQ manga serving as a welcome counterbalance to the superficial Yuri and Yaoi genres. She also manages to balance the more serious themes with wry self-deprecating humor. My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness was overall a very satisfying read and many of Nagata’s endeavors will be very relatable especially for any creative who’s struggled to balance their creative pursuits with finding a line of work to maintain financial support. I often scour for unusual genres that seldom make it to American distribution markets and among those are autobiographical manga. Although I’ve loved manga and anime since 7th grade, I admit to often feeling unsatisfied with familiar tropes of giant robot battles, magical schoolgirls, hyper-energy 50+ volume shonen epics or erotic tentacles monsters.
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