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A review by akookieforyou
My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 1 by Nagata Kabi
2.0
Bratz Readathon 2020
I really, really enjoyed My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness, so naturally I was excited to read this, and I had high expectations, but it just didn't click with me the same way. It felt like most of the chapters were just little random anecdotes from her life after writing her manga, but didn't explore her depression, loneliness, her feelings of failure, and of being unloved in the same way they did in her previous work. The best chapters were the ones where she was scared to show her parents her work, for she felt that they would be embarrassed of her and wouldn't accept her. Things like that, even if I can't fully relate in the same way as some of the other problems she deals with (depression, lack of ambition, inadequacy etc.), still hit me hard, and make me just want to cry. But chapters like that were a bit scarce, sadly. Maybe the next volume will be better, but I'm undecided on whether or not I'll give it a read.
I really, really enjoyed My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness, so naturally I was excited to read this, and I had high expectations, but it just didn't click with me the same way. It felt like most of the chapters were just little random anecdotes from her life after writing her manga, but didn't explore her depression, loneliness, her feelings of failure, and of being unloved in the same way they did in her previous work. The best chapters were the ones where she was scared to show her parents her work, for she felt that they would be embarrassed of her and wouldn't accept her. Things like that, even if I can't fully relate in the same way as some of the other problems she deals with (depression, lack of ambition, inadequacy etc.), still hit me hard, and make me just want to cry. But chapters like that were a bit scarce, sadly. Maybe the next volume will be better, but I'm undecided on whether or not I'll give it a read.