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[egodb]

Read Ikoku Nikki, y'all!

Thirty-five-year-old novelist Makio Koudai never had a good relationship with her older sister Minori, who always berated her for being different. Due to this, Makio is not stricken with grief upon hearing the news that Minori and her husband die in a car crash. But when Makio is asked to identify their bodies, she runs into her 15-year-old niece, Asa Takumi, whom she has not seen in years.

Struggling to process her parents' death, Makio reassures Asa that her complicated feelings are valid and suggests that the teenager start writing in a diary as a way to cope with the loss. Upon learning that no other relatives wanted to take in Asa, Makio decides to become her guardian despite her lack of experience. In a world full of uncertainty, the novelist and teenager must learn to live with each other while figuring themselves out.

(^ from MAL)

Ikoku Nikki (Journal with Witch) | Manga - MyAnimeList.net

This manga of 54 chapters (~11.5 h read) ascended to the top spot in my personal manga rankings within the first few chapters. Oh, what it feels like to be SEEN! I didn't cry at Luz's "I want to be understood" for no reason.

This is a fascinating story about acceptance and grief. I have not related to a piece of media this hard ever, and am compelled to recommend it,

SPOILER WARNING

We have:

Neurodivergence Representation

I'll not go into all the ways neurodivergence is hinted at, because really I want y'all to read this manga. It's absolutely definitely worth it.

Right from Chapter 3, we're shown aspects of one of the protagonists, Koudai Makio, which are neurodivergent, likely ADHD. It is present in all but name (even being indirectly referred to as a developmental disorder). However, even if it is a character trait, it is not the story! It is something that just is, and is separate from this beautiful journey of finding oneself and dealing with grief.

Chapter 15 introduces a lawyer who is autism-coded, and explicitly has a lack of empathy. He's upfront with it, and it actually feels like he is doing his best dealing with it, instead of exaggerating any aspect.

LGBTQ+ Representation

Koudai-san is aro-coded and has an unlabelled close relationship with one of the supporting characters.

One of Koudai-san's school friends is canonically a-spec.

One of Koudai-san's colleagues and friend is nonbinary.

The lead protagonist's best friend and important supporting character is lesbian.

Seriously, don't sleep on this manga.

[pastel-rights]

Dangan doodles 💕 Geez new people are probably so confused reading the tags akfjajdjwj

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Please don’t tag the last image as ship!

[ganberin]

claires makeover tiger and bunny looking fresh2death 🐯 🐰

juno belongs to my friend @glumeria !!

[mangaredditdotcom]

Kikoeru?.

Alternative: きこえる?

Description : The only hobby of college student Sakurabashi Itsuki is listening to his favorite radio DJ, Yunokuchi Arata (AKA Juno). They cross paths at the bookstore one day and Itsuki boldly asks Juno to get coffee with him. #MangaReddit.com, #ReadFreeMangaOnline Read Free Manga Online at MangaReddit.com: https://mangareddit.com/p/kikoeru_1584401619.html

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[pastel-rights]

Okay okay but you have to choose a character and send an ask for whoever you want-

So basically, in the loosest sense possible, evil teen murders people and brings them back to life and becomes a mad scientist- evil teen/scientist being Juno Shamia (AKA Enoshima) and the people brought back are Stephen Maes (AKA Gokuhara), Itsuki Kioyda (AKA Mioda), and Mabel Maizono (AKA Maizono) just to name a few- oh ya. And there’s baby Mikan (AKA Miki), baby Leon (AKA Kiwi) and Baby Shuichi (AKA Shu)

Does... does anyone want to hear about my Experiment AU? I wanna talk about it but I no want to bother people-