Recommendation: Aiesu (IS)
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Aiesu (IS)
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Aiesu is a manga collection of short stories about intersexed individuals and their lives. All the stories have the characters making a safely ambiguous place for themselves in a highly gender binary world and it filled me with such warm, fuzzy feelings! Especially the story beginning at chapter 13 which is why I posted a link to that one. They’re all self-contained so it makes no difference where you start.
Posted by Zory on March 21st, 2010 at 04:00 pm
Category: books, comics, recommendations, websites 10 comments »
March 21st, 2010 at 4:34 pm |
I’ve read as much as was available (previously) and I personally loved it :)
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March 22nd, 2010 at 7:30 am |
This is… really beautiful. It really is.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 2:49 pm |
currently reading it and it’s just wonderful
very heart-warming
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March 22nd, 2010 at 3:32 pm |
I’ma getting all teary-eyed and sniffly reading this. I know manga is usually supposed to tug on the ol’ romantic heartstrings but this is a topic a lot closer to my heart.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 9:20 pm |
I’ve been reading this and let me say that this is soooo accurate. I’m not IS but damnit I certainly feel like the main character lots of times.
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March 23rd, 2010 at 3:36 am |
I just read through all of that in one sitting. Wish the scanlator had continued, that was deeply touching.
I can’t help but think it’d have been nice to be born IS and maybe my body would be closer to where my mind is.
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March 25th, 2010 at 6:02 am |
I finished it last night. Very touching. I nearly cried.
I, too, often wish I were IS as well; I really identify with Haru and his conflicts of identity and his sense that he’s really in between, not really a boy or a girl, but sometimes he does feel like one or the other.
I can understand why the scanlator stopped, if the author wasn’t going to pursue the characters and story that arched from chapter 13 to chapter 78. I don’t know if I’d want to keep following the series if it wasn’t going to focus on Haru and the people that his life touched.
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March 28th, 2010 at 9:11 am |
Helpful hint for those unfamiliar with manga: read the panels from right to left.
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April 18th, 2010 at 6:53 am |
I’ve been reading it for a long time now (still waiting on that new update). If it weren’t for that manga I wouldn’t be here today, and for that I’m grateful.
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July 6th, 2010 at 12:50 am |
DAMMIT THE SCANLATOR STOPPED THERE???!!! I’mma have to go with Vader on this one: NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
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