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jess_johnson93's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Excrement, and Vomit
raix's review against another edition
3.75
The art style was cute and I liked the mix between cartoon depictions of people and realistic ones--and the ones clearly influenced by the author's eromanga background. The details of her knowing about certain things due to BL research were really funny. I really sympathized with her having to miss fandom events due to her sudden diagnosis and treatment.
Graphic: Cancer, Blood, and Medical content
Moderate: Child abuse
Minor: Excrement and Vomit
borrowmybookjacket's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Medical content
Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, and Physical abuse
Minor: Infertility, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic
litematcha's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Mental illness, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Infertility and Pandemic/Epidemic
yaoipaddle's review against another edition
5.0
She is very vulnerable but still really shows her love for the people that matter to her. It’s nice to see how much empathy she has for people around her even while she’s going through something difficult herself.
There is a good mix of info about cancer diagnosis and treatment as well as just her daily life and relationships. I never felt that it was trying to make me feel sad or inspired or any crap like that.
I knew I’d give it 5 stars even before I went and found out Hilnama ended up passing away, so rest assured this is not some pity rating.
Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Medical content
Minor: Sexual content
benediction's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, and Medical content
Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual content, Blood, and Vomit
Minor: Death, Infertility, Excrement, and Grief
xangemtheelibrarian's review against another edition
5.0
Let me start by saying that about halfway through the manga, I looked up Hilnama, because I really like her art style and I wanted to see if anything else she's written was translated into English. I wasn't successful in finding other series by her, but I did find out she passed away at home on December 16, 2022. And I've only been her fan for a day, and her personal memoir touched me so much that I'm grieving her loss. I hope someone checks on her husband. According to the manga, he really struggles with depression, and I just really hope someone keeps him company while he's grieving her.
Hilnama's story resonated a lot for me. She walked away from an abusive family and found a home in her in-laws. She worried a lot about unwelcome visits from her parents, or even that they would find out when she did not want them to. She worried about her husband, who had to pick up almost all of the housework because she was unable to do any of it anymore with how weak she was.
And then in the afterword, she celebrated officially being in remission as of December 2020. It's not clear why she passed, but she made it two years after remission. I'm not completely sure what year she was diagnosed, but she definitely made it longer than the doctor's original estimate of 30 months!
It just makes me so sad to read this the day after she passed.
Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Medical content
Moderate: Child abuse and Mental illness
Side note: You can tell she's an erotica author. The background sound effects and some of the illustrations are veryyyyy telling lol