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The prequel story. It has a good deal of charm, although I find that a Westerner reading Japanese texts often feels like encountering a mentality similar yet very different to his own.

It took a while to make sense of the layout. Interesting way to tell a story: relies on brevity and a spare style of illustration to convey considerable emotion. I'm certainly intrigued.

Haven’t tried graphic novels before. Still, never hurts to try new things.

Reading these as an asexual is truly surreal. Allosexuals don’t by actually feel these sort of things do they? It sounds exhausting.

I had to skip and skim most of the latter chapters, in which the villains are avoidants and asexuals the most villainous and undesirable of all. If I didn’t feel like mould already this would do it.

A lot I can relate to - the attempts to resolve differences especially. And I wonder how many of my fights over social things with the ex had their origin here. Still, I’m a bit sick of avoidants and men always being the villains.

The section on improving anxious/avoidant dynamics will need rereading. It will take two to tango though.

I had to skip most of the chapter on people with secure attachment styles. Bunch of smug self-regarding bastards.

I read the section on avoidant attachment, in which avoidants are blamed for everything. I had the uncomfortable feeling of being back in marriage counseling where my wife and her psychologist teamed up to tell me it was all my fault. I don’t know what the authors are trying to achieve but my dominant emotion this moment is volcanoes c bitterness.