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estiroseThis is quite a refreshing change from the last item I read/reviewed.
"I Want to be a Wall" (Watashi wa Kabe ni Naritai/わたしは壁になりたい) is a slice of life manga with LGBT+ protagonists. Aroace Boys Love (BL) fan Yuriko and closeted gay man Gakurouta have recently gotten married. They're not in love with each other but are trying to figure out this close partnership they've chosen to form. There is no chance of romance as Gaku is pining after a straight guy and Yuriko is... well, just not interested.
There are two collected volumes in English and a third waiting for translation. Perhaps more volumes are on the way, but I haven't found any information on whether there will be more.
Yuriko and Gaku are both very adorable and very awkward, though I did find Yuriko's focus on BL a little offputting. They're young people trying to figure out how to be partners in life even though they're not really romantically or sexually interested in each other. In fact, they're very determined to be the best partners to each other that they can. Gaku in particular goes out of his way to try to understand his wife's BL interest, much to her embarrassment sometimes (she has to make him promise not to look up omegaverse in one chapter), and Yuriko tries her best in return to make him happy by trying to cook for him and encourage him to not give up on his oblivious love interest.
This is one of the few times I'd encourage not starting a manga series on the first volume, as the second volume goes into how the two of them ended up together. It's also got this awesome scene where a friend of Yuriko's explains why an aroace woman is into BL, along with a really good explanation about the asexual/aromantic spectrums.
(Also, for some bizarre reason, the translator waited until volume 2 to clarify that Japanese merges aromantics and asexuals together; the word that consistently gets translated as "asexual" in the manga really does mean aroace, and not aces that are heteroromantic, biromantic, homoromantic, etc. That's why I was also glad to see the scene in volume 2 that differentiates between the two groups.)
There is a cliffhanger at the end of volume 2 relating to Gaku's Oblivious Love Interest, but otherwise it's a nice, quiet, sweet slice of life manga with two non-straight protagonists doing nothing more dangerous than cooking.
"I Want to be a Wall" (Watashi wa Kabe ni Naritai/わたしは壁になりたい) is a slice of life manga with LGBT+ protagonists. Aroace Boys Love (BL) fan Yuriko and closeted gay man Gakurouta have recently gotten married. They're not in love with each other but are trying to figure out this close partnership they've chosen to form. There is no chance of romance as Gaku is pining after a straight guy and Yuriko is... well, just not interested.
There are two collected volumes in English and a third waiting for translation. Perhaps more volumes are on the way, but I haven't found any information on whether there will be more.
Yuriko and Gaku are both very adorable and very awkward, though I did find Yuriko's focus on BL a little offputting. They're young people trying to figure out how to be partners in life even though they're not really romantically or sexually interested in each other. In fact, they're very determined to be the best partners to each other that they can. Gaku in particular goes out of his way to try to understand his wife's BL interest, much to her embarrassment sometimes (she has to make him promise not to look up omegaverse in one chapter), and Yuriko tries her best in return to make him happy by trying to cook for him and encourage him to not give up on his oblivious love interest.
This is one of the few times I'd encourage not starting a manga series on the first volume, as the second volume goes into how the two of them ended up together. It's also got this awesome scene where a friend of Yuriko's explains why an aroace woman is into BL, along with a really good explanation about the asexual/aromantic spectrums.
(Also, for some bizarre reason, the translator waited until volume 2 to clarify that Japanese merges aromantics and asexuals together; the word that consistently gets translated as "asexual" in the manga really does mean aroace, and not aces that are heteroromantic, biromantic, homoromantic, etc. That's why I was also glad to see the scene in volume 2 that differentiates between the two groups.)
There is a cliffhanger at the end of volume 2 relating to Gaku's Oblivious Love Interest, but otherwise it's a nice, quiet, sweet slice of life manga with two non-straight protagonists doing nothing more dangerous than cooking.
