A manga called Love me for who I am.
The main character is non-binary but presents in a feminine way, and they’re recruited by a classmate to work on a maid cafe. The story is very sincere, and shows many of the struggles we face. I’ve read it pretty early on my transition and related hard to many of the characters. On that note, there’s so many colors of the rainbow in there – trans women, cross-dressing cis guys, gay guys, a lesbian woman, and of course the non-binary protagonist. It’s a great story.
I liked it in general but IMO the chapter near the end at the school festival left me feeling kinda bad about the whole thing because it felt like the author pulled a hard 180.
It’s been a while since I’ve read it so I don’t remember that school festival thing. I do remember the story becomes a lot more serious towards the end, with Mogumo’s family and all, but I like it that way. There were problems Mogumo was running from that had to be solved before one could say the story was finished.
It may sound silly to some, but “Guilty Gear Strive” - i.e. Bridget - was very important to me. Once I realized that I was envious of a character from a game who could have something that I had not (a transition), it was the final crack in the egg. If I wanted to have what Bridget had, I had to pursue it IRL and I do since then.
does celeste count
Re-reading some time ago, this weird manga called Boku girl, more than a decade after first reading it when I was barely a teenager.
Image of page in here, to take less space
The amab main character,
(the eggiest of all eggs that have ever egged, (his body transformed fully into a cis girl’s body “Against his Will”(a Loki did it))),
has been trying to process the conflict between his role as a man, against her Joy, and euphoria, and her own desires, all throughout the story.
During an aquarium visit, it’s explained to him that Clown Fish can change sex. Pondering that she asks, reading from right to left:
The series drew me in as a child, when I couldn’t understand anything at all about me, but this page, years later, made me believe the validity and importance of asking the question, now that many other things are already in place in my mind.
Hit me like a truck.
So now at least some of my close friends, those that truly care about this question, know.
