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4.37 AVERAGE
4.37 AVERAGE
Cried a little bit.
It’s beautiful in so many ways, with so much emotional intelligence. People (adults) are complex, prejudice is awful and harmful for EVERYONE and it distorts the truth. The truth that love should be really all that matters. Love with consent, love with respect, love. This book is just love.
Five starts and a happy tear (or lots of them).
It’s beautiful in so many ways, with so much emotional intelligence. People (adults) are complex, prejudice is awful and harmful for EVERYONE and it distorts the truth. The truth that love should be really all that matters. Love with consent, love with respect, love. This book is just love.
Five starts and a happy tear (or lots of them).
Great book about homosexuality and family. Super cute and great read for learning.
emotional
medium-paced
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Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was funny, lovely, sad, heartbreaking, and wonderful.
This was an awesome book. It has a very simplistic story but all three characters are very engaging and help the reader empathize with differing attitudes towards homosexuality. It's a good example of a story in which someone has negative views towards a particular marginalized group until someone close to them who belongs to that group challenges their beliefs. I think that we'd become much more sympathetic to the plight of others, particularly marginalized group if we had that exposure.
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Warm, slice-of-life manga about a single father, his young daughter, and his "brother's husband" - a burly Canadian who stayed with them during his visit. (Mike is actually the gay widower of Yaichi's deceased brother Ryoji). It employs many tropes, and can seem a bit didactic in its prejudice-busting and advocacy of tolerance, but it does a good job of staying entertaining. I wish the author gives some idea of how much homophobia is really an issue in Japan - the Japanese are, in many ways, not prudish (though still very conservative in other ways), so it would be good to get a reality / perspective check.