Sofie’s Reviews > Go For It, Nakamura-kun!! Vol. 1 > Status Update

and this perfectly illustrates why this manga is the absolute best at handling a fujoshi plotline. nakamura is just as ridiculous and hopeless and doesn’t know how to properly express or deal with his emotions. he’s weird for asking her to draw it, and she’s weird for doing it!! everyone’s a fucking weirdo about love and desire, especially in high school!!!!

whenever any bl includes a fujoshi plotline i brace for the worst but i think the tone of this manga as a whole is very well suited to framing this critique in good natured absurdity. kawamura drawing her friends’ fantasies of their classmates acting out classic bl tropes but not realizing that nakamura is a real life gay person (AND THAT HE ONLY TALKED TO HER BC HE WANTED HER DRAWING OF HIROSE) is hilarious

the matter-of-fact and a bit teasing yet still supportive way that this omniscient narrator speaks about nakamura gives this manga such a unique tone, i really love it. somehow it also matches the 90s art style perfectly

okay so this is one of the things that was omitted from the anime and i understand why aksdhkajdh not bc it's unrealistic for a teenage boy to fantasize about that stuff but bc it's perhaps a bit too early on??? we barely know nakamura or hirose yet, maybe let's garner a bit more understanding before jumping into the tentacle fantasies yknow. it also calls into question his feelings about his pet octopus.......

this anime floored me in its hilariously absurd but deeply poignant take on a modern gay high school romcom, and i've heard that the manga is.....Different but i am intrigued nonetheless. if it hits even half as hard as the anime did then i'll be thrilled