This is just the author's story of her transition and it is just absolutely wonderful from beginning to end. We follow Yuna from JP to Thailand where she details her surgery journey in absolutely hilarious detail (with serious side notes afterwards which I found so helpful). She talks in detail about her nurses and how helpful they were and goes into aftercare as well. And yes she does go into the negative feelings in terms of loneliness and depression which I think is super important too but she mainly focuses on the positive which was very uplifting.
I think what I love the most about this is that it is a manga though. Through humor and some adorable drawings, she conveys the entire process in a manner that anyone can understand. Like a lot of older anime fans so much of the manga/anime we consume has LGBTQ+ coded characters but not many that are simply Transgender and identify as such and while the author isn't a character I find that placing herself in that role will allow the younger generation of manga fans to have a specific "character" to look up to and say "Its okay because Yuna is okay" and for thats beautiful.
Highly recommend this and as a parent, I would say that kids as young as twelve would have no issues reading this especially if they've gone through sex education classes. That being said there are graphic details regarding the surgeries so parents should read first and ensure it would be appropriate for their kiddo.
As always thanks to NetGalley and Kodansha Comics for the eArc!
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