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It's realistic in a way that being a dumbass who can't communicate with your partner and choose to emotionally cheat on them instead is "realistic", sure. The movie had potential though it was a bit slow sometimes. Definitely inspired by The Silent Voice in how it's storyboarded but it was lacking at some parts. The writing was extremely weak, it was such an overblown misunderstanding/miscommunication. It's hard to believe that two long term friends, lovers, won't try to reach out to the other party if they're uncomfortable with something. The main character was also written awfully. She was extremely cowardly till the end. Her girlfriend ... was the opposite, she was cowardly at first but decided to become brave, strong and did her best to be independent as soon as possible so she could support the MC. MC on the other hand felt nothing but shame and frustration with her girlfriend and refused to communicate properly with her, she didn't even try to understand that her girlfriend was doing everything she can to be with her, and instead blamed her for her (MC) having interests in other people. She still doubted her gf's feelings for her even after her gf hurriedly carried her to the hospital because of her high fever. And the movie shows her seeming happy and content by the end? As if she deserved to move on?

What the hell is this bs writing? Again, yeah it's realistic, if you wanted to depict an awful and cowardly mc. There's very few yuri movies/films out there, especially when it comes to animation, but they wasted the potential this movie had with that awful writing. It could have been something due to the effort they put into the post production but the awful writing and development of the main character just gives a bad taste to the entire thing.

It's a good fairytale story with a twist. If you read this story thinking that the main character is trans then you're greatly mistaken, and is lowkey homophobic and sexist. Masculine women and lesbian exists, but during that time they just didn't have the words for how they're feeling so "feeling like a man" is the closest they could get. In the end she understand that she is still a woman but just that she can never love a man, hence, by modern definitions, a lesbian.

There's great attention to detail given to the art, it's just such a shame that it's rushed and the ... writing weakened near the end. If they built it up a bit more then it would have felt more like a complete story. That being said though, I guess it sticks to the fairytale format of it being short and the ending being up to interpretations. The ending seems happy considering for when it was made so I love it for that.

If you want to read something that is short, classic, and is of substance this is a good read. It also helps a lot that it's got class that is sorely missing from most yuri/gl stories nowadays.

It's enjoyable for what it is. But it's obvious that the artist doesn't care much about this story and with China's censorship on the rise I don't have much hope for this story to have a more fleshed out plot or narrative. Much less a proper ending.

The art varies too much and it could get jarring. The body shapes are often too masculine because the author is more used to drawing male bodies that it's easy to forget that they're meant to be young women. The faces needs a lot of adjusting to as well. The gags for the most part is great and ... I love them but it can be a bit tiring especially since most readers are reading for the development of the two main characters. She already does a lot of BL on the side so I don't understand her need to focus on men in her GL story. That's just my opinion but it does strike me as weird.

It's not worthy of an Eisner. Story wise, everything was typical, you can easily guess what would happen next. And this is not me hating on a cliche, a cliche can be good if done right (Ex: How to train your dragon). The main guy character is needlessly abusive and he gets a pass for everything that he does to the main character just because he had a traumatic/sad past. I'm sorry but this only promotes a very bad example for women, that they can change a bad man into an ideal man. How many times have we seen this and how often did it ... work? I'm guessing almost never because these men often become abusive. I'm glad she showed that relationships can be messy but there are better, more tactful ways to do it. If I will be kind, I would rate this as a 6 just for junk reading (hint: I didn't). But learning that this won an Eisner is literally throwing dirt at other shoujo mangakas, heck I'd rather her win that award for her Princess Jellyfish than this one. I actually admire this mangaka very much for her amazing work ethic so reading this and learning about her award is very disappointing.