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alexutzu's review
3.5
😍 The good:
Some of the messages were positive and powerful. There were some discussions about cultural differences and the author's self-discovery journey, besides other subjective talks or informational materials.
😅 The not-so-good:
The chapter structure was a bit clunky and all over the place, with a weird pace: we kept jumping from one thing to another and some of them seemed to not fit that well in the book. I thought that the manga will be more objectively informative but it leaned towards the memoir side, which would be fine but the style was not my cup of tea. There were plenty of stereotypes that the story mentioned, that seemed to be included without a deeper purpose.
Graphic: Blood and Dysphoria
Moderate: Mental illness and Sexual content
Minor: Pregnancy
moonyreadsbystarlight's review against another edition
3.5
I did find the memoir component stronger than the educational component. I think the setup of some previously serialized manga memoirs is disjointed to me, which is more of a personal preference (for instance I recall feeling the same way about My Solo Exchange Diary, though I really love some other volumes in that series).
Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual content, Blood, and Death of parent
Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy
Minor: Biphobia
Explicit discussion of menstruation and gender dysphoriarmperezpadilla's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Mental illness and Suicide
Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, and Death of parent
Includes fairly graphic depiction of menstruation (with a warning note in text, so you’ll see it coming)keisyreads's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content and Dysphoria
fawning_over_books's review against another edition
2.0
Graphic: Sexual content and Dysphoria
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Excrement, and Death of parent
Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic
jenny_d's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Sexual content and Dysphoria
Moderate: Mental illness
prunusnucipersica's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Sexual content, Blood, and Dysphoria
Minor: Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Grief, and Pregnancy
enchantedsleeper's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, and Dysphoria
Moderate: Sexual content and Medical content
Minor: Pregnancy
rtaire's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, and Dysphoria
Moderate: Biphobia, Body shaming, Mental illness, and Transphobia
benediction's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Dysphoria
Moderate: Cancer, Mental illness, and Death of parent
Minor: Gore, Transphobia, Excrement, and Medical content