ObscureGodOfTea finished reading Boy Meets Maria by Peyo
Taiga, que sempre teve uma grande admiração por heróis desde sua infância, encontra sua garota …
Content warning includes general mentions of things that aren't revealed at the start of the story but also I talk about why I wouldn't reccomend reading it in the first place
It's hard to put into words how this series has made me feel. Confused? a little empty? Just saying it's a bad story doesn't feel right but I'm left unsatisfied finishing it. Perhaps it's that I was sold on it being a trans/non-binary story but. it's really not. Yuu has a complicated relationship with gender sure but if anything it feels more like the other characters & even the narrative put a lot more genderqueerness onto him that doesn't exist. And the only thing that makes them do so is that he's a male actor playing female roles. I dunno, it just feels very clumsily written without any real understanding of what it's like to be trans. Which I don't like to say because there's an infinite amount of ways to be trans and I know there are people this series resonates with. But that IS how it's left me feeling. Going past the not really trans stuff the trauma also feels clumsily handled, or at least not explored very deeply. To be fair, this is a really short series and it doesn't have a lot of time to explore things but. Yeah I don't know. I have my guard up pretty high with stories that tie gender non conformity to childhood trauma but that doesn't mean those stories shouldn't exist. it's just a nuanced topic that I don't think this manga does justice to. tldr. I wouldn't recommend Boy meets Maria
