jennifersiyuanzhou 's review for:

Is Love the Answer? by Uta Isaki
3.0
reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
tl;dr there are points I as someone who identifies as asexual relate to. there were different kinds of asexual people represented which was amazing, the themes were good but as an overall story it fell flat.  Characters were a bit flat, we didn’t really get a chance to know them besides through giant info dump convos & certain characters like the professor just occasionally goes into lecture mode. 

  • why do i think the student-professor relation is a lil weird…not saying there’s any relation (chapter 1) but do profs just invite their studentswhy do i think the student-professor relation is a lil weird…not saying there’s any relation (chapter 1) but do profs just invite their students to their houses?? and damn they really jumped into talking about stuff when they just met. a lil rushed feeling
  • psych prof =/= therapy…..? i guess she young & i dont have anything super against this other than damn it happened so so fast
  • see i dont quite get her moving in w the prof either like….esp shes in the psych prof program??
  • mentions fujoshi (腐女) but doesn't rllyyyy talk about it
    likening sexual orientations to being fujoshi is also kinda…weird…? Not that it’s bad but it’s more nuanced and to place it in the same discussion as sexual orientation didn’t sit quite right
  • there’s a whole rant from the prof abt his marriage + being asexual & just lists a bunch diff kinds of experiences…..
  • these characters r quite flat
    lol 
  • what the main character does to try to explicitly define romance is very much the type of thing I would do ahahaha it just sounds like me
  • I don’t realllyyy follow main character and ume relationships either…like I don’t really understand how it led up to this? I guess just common background…it’s just the age? Gap I think idk. like I said I feel like we never actually got to know these characters in a non-dumpy way