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Aug 30, 2022
Ao no Flag (Manga) add
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Lots of feelings on this one.. at first glance it is a simple love triangle with a (gay) twist, fun right?

Wrong! This story is so much more than that. To me Blue Flag at it's core is about heteronormativity. This comes up in many ways throughout the story: the entire poltline of Mami not being able to uphold friendships with men and everyone assume she is trying to get with Ichinose. Kensuke only seeing women as objects of desire and men as friends and then having this challenged when he finds out Touma is gay. This whole thing in the story of attraction vs friendship ...
Aug 30, 2022
Man this manga broke me. Would recommend this to any trans person interested in manga that can handle a little bit of dysophira inducing content. BRtR is just so authentic in it's portrayal of trans struggles and trans joy, it ad me in tears at multiple points throughout it's short run.
Only problem I have with it is that at some points it seems to equate sexual orientation/attraction with gender identity but it's not as ademant on that, that I see it as problematic but rather as part of the characters struggles with identity, and the way this affects the characters in the story makes me ...


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