With this week's focus on the Diversity of Gender and Sexuality in Manga and Anime, We were asked to pick one from a list of two readings – I chose Nagata Kabi's My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness . My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is an autobiographical manga, that uses more of an illustrated diary format, where Nagata details her struggle with her identity – sexual and personal – as well as her fight with depression and an eating disorder. Nagata begins the novel with a small prologue that illustrates her encounter with an older lesbian prostitute. She then goes on to rewind to the last ten years of her life, highlighting the events that led up to the encounter at the "love hotel."
LMST Jena Zaletel