The protagonist’s honest stripping of her doubts and searching within was another heartwarming aspect since it laid bare all her fears and anxieties. That alone would light up anybody and restore faith in humanity.
What was heartening though was how she was encouraged by random strangers at her job interviews to pursue her dream of writing manga. And who has not at times felt bereft of people or felt metaphorically stranded on an island while the world passes by? What was heartbreaking to see was how the story depicts the loneliness of the protagonist which we may all face at sometime or the other. “When my mind is hurting there is no shape or mark to look at, so I can’t understand it very well.” One idea that struck me was when she mentions about her invisible pain and I thought that that would help people to understand mental health issues: My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness deals in a matured way with mental health issues such as anxiety of facing people or the world’s expectations.
It mostly goes downhill from there: be it at her part time jobs or with her own self esteem. Next page though, we see the ghosts that haunted her in the past ten years that led her to that opening situation: ghosts that we may all face such as not knowing where to go, not having a “something I belong to”, to much more serious ones such as self harm, eating disorders and depression.Īfter quitting college, she faces conflicts of adjusting to the workplace and to the world as a whole, including her own parents and living up to their expectations. The opening scene of the manga, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi is like a film since it focuses on an unexpected situation that the female protagonist of this manga is in and then she talks about the scene and how she ended up there. With pale pink illustrations, My Lesbian Experience with Lonelinessby Nagata Kabi, gives a sharp look at how one person deals with the demons in her mind that the world creates and painfully overcomes them.
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