A review by madam_librarian
Blue Flag, Vol. 8 by Kaito

3.0

Welp… That did not stick the ending for me. I was already a bit iffy on all the very long, drawn out conversations back and forth about differing perspectives. They were overly wordy and did not contain as much depth of nuance and emotional punch as I believe they were intended to, in my opinion. But I would’ve been fine with them had the author really nailed the ending… but they didn’t.

All they really had to do was show just one single panel of Toma and Taichi together. In queer literature of all kinds, showing queerness - especially queer relationships - directly on the page is so important for other queer people to be able to see themselves represented, in normalizing depiction of queerness. Maybe someday this won’t be necessary, but in the world in which we live now, it is. So to not have that, to just leave it implied, was so disappointing. And seriously, like I said, all it would’ve taken was a single panel.