I Think Our Son Is Gay 01

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Sarah (May 27, 2021). "I Think Our Son Is Gay Volume 1 Review". Anime UK News . Retrieved July 12, 2021. This volume is also notable because DAIGO gets a chapter from his perspective. It doesn't answer the question of whether or not he's aware that Hiroki likes him romantically, nor does it reveal if he reciprocates. But what it does show us is that Hiroki is an important person to DAIGO and that he wasn't sure how having a girlfriend would affect their friendship. If anything, he was willing to continue to put his friendship with Hiroki first, but Hiroki himself quashed that idea. The whole thing implies that this close friendship may not be forever, because the boys could want very different things from each other. But that bittersweetness is part of growing up, and it's good to see that DAIGO, too, is grappling with it. Tomoko suspects that her elder son, Hiroki, is gay. He hasn't told her outright, but he's also not the best at hiding things, and by the time of this manga, his first year in high school, she's all but certain. And you know what? She's okay with that, because he's her son and she loves him. The end. Hiroki’s at that age, but he’s not exactly skewing heteronormative and his mother, Tomoko, has begun to notice. Actually, given how ridiculously poor Hiroki is at hiding things, he might as well just join a pride parade and call it a day.

The heartfelt stuff is really good - Hiroki’s dad travels for work and the way he means well but completely throws off the family dynamic and can’t read the room when he is there is a nice contrast to everything Tomoko does. There’s also a satisfying ending to this volume that shows she had to learn to be the ally she’s become. Loveridge, Lynzee (May 14, 2021). "I Think Our Son Is Gay Volume 1 Review". Anime News Network . Retrieved July 12, 2021.

Mateo, Alex (July 30, 2020). "Square Enix Manga & Books Licenses Otherside Picnic, I Think Our Son Is Gay Manga". Anime News Network . Retrieved July 12, 2021. Love Me For Who I Am's art makes it seem like a moe manga, but the manga actually delves into some serious subjects. Love Me For Who I Am, by Kata Konayama, starts with one of the main characters, Tetsu Iwaoka, inviting his loner classmate Mogumo to work for his family's maid cafe. The maid cafe caters to a specific niche, employing only "girly boys." However, Mogumo tells Tetsu that he shouldn't assume someone's gender because of their presentation. Mogumo is actually nonbinary and causes the cast to reflect on their assumptions about gender. I think my stance on this is basically that this book is very good at showing a relationship between a mother and son where the former loves the latter no matter what and you can’t really fault it there. But it’s not compelling and that’s got nothing to do with its LGBQT+ positive story - in fact, that’s the only part that makes it at all interesting. Minus one obvious joke about search histories the “gags” are all just Hiroki being flustered and that’s... not actually funny. Square Enix Manga & Books is publishing the manga digitally and physically in English, and it describes the story: A doting mother and her two beloved sons, one of whom she thinks is probably gay, go about their daily lives in this hilarious and heartwarming LGBTQIA+-friendly family comedy!

Things also come to a head with Asumi, Hiroki’s childhood friend, who’s been crushing on Hiroki since probably forever! sexuality or discrimination. The gags are all in good taste and mostly play on Hiroki's awkward and overly flustered reactions once he realizes his mistakes (e.g. saying boyfriend instead of girlfriend). Supportive Tomoko has an inkling Hiroki might be gay, but she's going to let him figure it out for himself. Unfortunately, Hiroki has little talent for keeping his “secret,” so he might die of embarassment before all is said and done!

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To this end, she discusses things with Mr. Tono, her gay coworker (without actually saying why she's asking). Tono is an interesting character because he's the only out character in the series so far, making him the de facto reassurance for Tomoko that things will be okay for her son. But he also shows her how unthinkingly cruel the world can be. Tomoko watches uncomfortably as coworkers treat Tono like a character rather than a person, assuming things about him based solely on media stereotypes rather than who he is as a human being. Although Tomoko rarely says anything to them, we can see her registering each microaggression and careless assumption, and how those affect her thinking and worldview. For example, when a TV program runs a segment that attempts to “test” someone's heterosexuality as a joke, Tomoko is forced to realize that she might have found it funny before. But now it just makes her think about how unfunny that “joke” is and how hurtful it could be. Her first concern is always for her son's comfort and well-being, which is, incidentally, a significant aspect of positive allyship. In July 2020, Square Enix announced they would also be publishing the series in English. [5] Volume list [ edit ] No. Uchi no Musuko wa Tabun Gay (Our Son is Probably Gay) is written from a mother's point of view who suspects that her eldest son (Hiroki) is gay, since he is very bad at hiding things.