my lesbian experience with loneliness manga

My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness was written with the exact opposite impulse. Still, with no lack of hot-take think pieces on how our Facebook feeds are basically fool’s gold, it’s arguable that a certain kind of social media prioritizes the audience - its purpose is to inspire or entertain, not document an authentic experience. This trajectory makes a lot more sense in the context of the story - because sharing her experiences and the reactions she received are a big part of that story - when you see how Nagata uses Twitter and other platforms to navigate a social sphere she otherwise feels hopelessly unequipped to enter. Nagata first posted her story for free, online, and it was only after it became a success and a sensation that it was published through more traditional means. Even nakedness is drawn more evocatively than explicitly. Reality can be drawn with a sense of fluidly for the same effect: a pretty girl’s smile lights the air around her with sparkles, a character’s skin can almost melt with mortification. The simpler character designs allow for a focus on details, like the protagonist’s permanently astray hairs, to inform you of their emotionality. It’s in the same autobiographical vein of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis or Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, but the art is a more impressionistic than realistic. If you’re unfamiliar with manga, or Japanese graphic novels and comics, My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness might be, well, an experience. This, she rather desperately hoped, would give her an entrée into real adulthood, or at least a better understanding of herself. Feeling stunted in almost all areas of life, but most essentially in her connections with other people, she decided to work toward the concrete goal of having sex with another woman for the first time. In 2015 Kabi Nagata was twenty-eight years old, chronically depressed, and sexually unexpressed. That also means I’m not the award-winning author of international sensation My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness, so, you know. I’m definitely not the type to chronicle my first sexual experience in hiring an escort and put it online for the world to see. My name is Katharine, and I am still kind of shy about putting my face up on the internet my Instagram is empty, and I don’t even do Twitter.

My lesbian experience with loneliness manga