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さびしすぎてレズ風俗に行きましたレポ

2016

  • loneliness
  • translations into english
  • lesbians
  • single women
  • comic books, strips
  • comics & graphic novels, general
  • lesbianism
  • mental depression
  • biography
  • prostitution

The story

The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is an honest and heartfelt look at one young woman's exploration of her sexuality, mental well-being, and growing up in our modern age. Told using expressive artwork that invokes both laughter and tears, this moving and highly entertaining single volume depicts not only the artist's burgeoning sexuality, but many other personal aspects of her life that will resonate with readers.

What it’s like

Plain, unfussy manga pages with simple linework, loose gray-toned panels and a lot of white space, the kind of drawing that lets a small bedroom, a cramped apartment or a dim love hotel feel lived-in rather than staged. Its emotional palette runs from rueful comedy to quiet ache: wry, self-deprecating, tender and sometimes raw, the mood of a late-night phone conversation with a friend who admits everything. The pacing is brisk and episodic, short scenes stitched together with bursts of humour and long pauses of loneliness, and the reading rhythm is that of a single sitting on a slow afternoon or a sleepless night. Its arc follows a young woman who is candid about her depression, her uncertain sexuality and the strain of modern city life, and it resolves in a way that feels hard-won rather than neat. Intensity is low: there is no violence or gore, and the sexual content is frank in subject but non-graphic, with mental-health struggles handled directly and without melodrama. It suits readers who want a heartfelt, funny and honest memoir about being lonely and figuring yourself out, especially those who like real-life confessional comics.

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