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Our Dining Table, by Mita Ori (2017, transl. 2019)
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Premise: A reclusive young Japanese man learns the value of connecting with others through food.

Review: This is a cute manga, but I didn‘t buy the particular baggage of the main character and it felt overwrought. (This is part of the genre, I realize, but it just left me ambivalent.) The highlight is absolutely the younger brother character.

Very charming and cozy watching these two work hard to figure each other out and grow closer. I wound up looking qualia since it never came up in the book, and understanding this concept of fleeting moments and one-time experiences really heightened my experience of this quiet, slow-paced story. #Manga #LGBTQIA

What the actual @#$? did I just read🫠🤣

I definitely SKIMMED a few parts🤣

I was really digging Uketsu so I picked up a few random horror mangas from my local library to try and find something else I‘d like. And I must say I am absolutely SHOCKED the library is housing this one🤣🤣 I don‘t think I‘ve ever been shocked by a library book💀🤣

An old(er) man yaoi. My first reading about older couples. It was bit dark, auite realistic and all in all very lovable.

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Another fun continuation of this story. I am enjoying seeing the characters slowly grow through their relationships. I wish we saw a little more growth through their music like we did in the first two volumes, but that's my only tiff. #LGBTQIA #Manga

I wound up missing a volume or two because of the confusing way this manga is structured, and it really showed up in this volume because I missed some important character introductions 😆 otherwise, another excellent volume. I liked the way we lean about Taichi‘s past in-chapter instead of in a chapter all its own. #LGBTQIA #Disabled #Manga

I am still loving this series. We get to see the characters continue to grow in their relationship and in their professional lives in this volume, and dove into the lives of some side characters as a fun aside. #LGBTQIA #Manga

#Falling Cider took me a while, but I found this cute camp song 🎵 Theae girls were really good. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I like volume 2 even more than volume 1! We get a deeper look into the family personalities and discover a second secret ally. I really enjoyed the horror game chapter 😂 The mom also had a lot of moments of reflection and growth as she noticed happenings in the world around her and realized ways they might impact her son. #LGBTQIA #Manga #Motherhood

I really didn't like the art in this one, I found it a bit too difficult to follow, honestly. The characters weren't really fleshed out, either -- the progression from randomly re-encountering each other to having random sex was a bit odd, and there was a *lot* of random sex. I didn't mind the grumpy/sunshine thing, but... yeah, didn't really come together for me.

Reminded me of FAKE, a bit, though, which provoked some nostalgia.