It’s not until the couple go on a ‘pilgrimage’ one weekend to Kochi where a special exhibition is being held celebrating one of Yuriko’s favourite Boys’ Love manga, that they get to learn more about each other. Is the support they offer, the walls they chose versus the walls forced on them, any less important? Platonic Life-Partners: While Yuriko and Gakurouta aren't attracted to each other, they still treat their marriage as a serious partnership and act as a support system to one another.

It’s easy to say fitting in is overrated: it’s much harder to live out when one isn’t just nebulously “unique” but part of a group that is actively oppressed and put in danger when they stand out. Gee, it's almost as though being aspec is inherently queer and our struggles line up with other queer identities due to not fitting into established social narratives and that exclusionist movement that persisted for a couple years when I was a teen was full of shit and needed to shut up and actually listen to us about our experiences and no I'm not still haunted by that, it's not like I ran an aspec blog during the height of that bullshit and had to field terrible shit when I was sixteen, nope, not at all. Even if his new wife is certain that she doesn’t feel any kind of sexual or romantic desire for anyone, she nevertheless seems very happy to cheer on her OTPs in the BL manga and novels she reads.While the primary focus on her fictional love is boys love, she does say that any couple is okay with her (including straight couples); she just isn’t interested in that kind of relationship in real life.

At first, Yuriko ships Gakurouta with Sousuke once she notices how shy the former is around the latter. And I feel even a chapter would have helped at this stage; hitting the ground running makes for a dramatic opening but it’s telling the story the wrong way round.Granted, it is absolutely possible for someone to be aromantic AND asexual (and it sounds like that's how Yuriko identifies), but the story treats asexuality as both and it isn't. Ho voluto dare a questa storia un’occasione perché era stata promossa per il mese del pride e…ci sono proprio rimasta male per le opportunità sprecate?