Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Heartstopper (Webcomic) by Alice Oseman

18 reviews

14silja's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A new favourite of mine 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Eating disorder, Homophobia, and Mental illness

Minor: Self harm, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, and Sexual harassment

a_girl_living_her_best_life's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Great plot and the characters are great. You can really relate to the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Toxic relationship, and Lesbophobia

panda_rojo's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted sad

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Mental illness

worldofv33's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Minor: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

demicatra's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Eating disorder, Homophobia, and Mental illness

Moderate: Chronic illness

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

aero__rrrrr's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Homophobia, Transphobia, Violence, and Outing

Minor: Bullying, Outing, and Alcohol

leo_liest's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder and Mental illness

Minor: Self harm

luuchspoltore's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I adored these comics, they have great representation. They are lighthearted and show a positive side of queer teens, which are usually shown in a sad way, where they can’t be together and there is a lot of homophobia that really interfere in their relationship. Even though it does show homophobia, transphobia, etc. it is not the main plot in the story, it is just something that affects the characters  (what I mean is that the whole purpose of their existance is not to show sad characters because of homophobia). They are affected by very real issues, like self-image and EDs, and portrays them in a way that shows that there is a way out, there is a way to get better.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

bisexualwentworth's review

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I’ve done it! I’ve read Heartstopper! Or I’m caught up with the webcomic and intending to read the rest as it comes out, at least.

I’m sure I’ll update this review when the whole story is finished, but here are some thoughts:

This is exactly what I expected it to be. Wholesome. Healthy. Diverse. Sweet. Generally adorable. Very very queer. It’s very in line with what I know of Alice Oseman’s other writing and general online presence.

I love Nick and Charlie. Charlie especially is written with so much care and sensitivity.

There are a lot of aspects of the story that resonate with me or that remind me of things and people that are familiar to me.

The side characters are sweet. Tara and Darcy are adorable wholesome lesbians. Tao and Elle are very adorable as well. And I enjoy the teachers a lot.

The whole thing is kind of sickeningly sweet, even the mental illness stuff. 

It’s just SO CLEAR that Alice Oseman is VERY online and VERY determined to be UnproblematicTM, and while I respect and appreciate that impulse, it leads to a lot of things being kind of surface-level. We’ll see if my thoughts on that change with further updates.

On to the show!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Homophobia, and Mental illness

Minor: Biphobia, Bullying, Self harm, and Violence

bookishlybecca's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, and Outing

Moderate: Biphobia, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Physical abuse, Vomit, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail