Naoko Kodama
Auteur de I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 15
- Membres
- 481
- Popularité
- #51,317
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 13
- ISBN
- 30
- Langues
- 4
With that said, I appreciated that Hana does not struggle with her feelings or identity, as so many same-sex relationships in manga are about both parties working out who they are and how they feel until they both come to the same conclusion. Additionally, the subplots that are blink-and-you'll-miss-it but really interesting include homophobic, high-pressure parents (and the one panel that reveals the relationship between parents left me really sad that the depth of what's going on in this story is just out of reach of the actual focus of the narrative); sexism in the workplace; and well-meaning coworkers who want what Machi doesn't realize is right in front of her.
There are three very short stories at the end of the book that are, oddly, far more detailed and in-depth: one about alternate teen versions of Machi and Hana as promising sports stars at an elite athletic school; another that is simply a missing scene from the main story; and, finally, a short autobiographical word from the author.
I always love a good one-shot, and this one is fun and sweet, but I feel like it either needed to be much more focused on the way the relationship builds to its conclusion, or it needed a second volume to give the plot and subplots more space to breathe.… (plus d'informations)