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A review by kalira
After We Gazed at the Starry Sky by Bisco Kida
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.75
This is really sweet and really pretty, but also painfully ableist - I expected it to some degree when I read the full blurb, and suspected the 'carrying' was going to be 'without really asking', but. . .
I really liked the characters, and their developing relationship was for the most part nicely done (there was one part that, also pulling in the ableism again from an internalised perspective on Subaru's part, made me argle a bit), along with their earnestness, and the art was great and by turns emotive and telegraphing stillness in very fitting ways.
. . .but the intense ableism from Subaru being picked up and carried without asking, his chair pushed without asking, assumptions made (and more aggravating, not incorrectly, in-universe) about his holding himself back, making it feel rather like treating him like a child 'teaching him better' about his own disability, and similar. It was . . . not great.
I really liked the characters, and their developing relationship was for the most part nicely done (there was one part that, also pulling in the ableism again from an internalised perspective on Subaru's part, made me argle a bit), along with their earnestness, and the art was great and by turns emotive and telegraphing stillness in very fitting ways.
. . .but the intense ableism from Subaru being picked up and carried without asking, his chair pushed without asking, assumptions made (and more aggravating, not incorrectly, in-universe) about his holding himself back, making it feel rather like treating him like a child 'teaching him better' about his own disability, and similar. It was . . . not great.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism
Minor: Cancer, Sexual content, and Death of parent