emfiliane reviewed Still Sick, Vol. 1 by Akashi
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5 stars
Go into this expecting a steamy yuri manga and you will be disappointed. This is josei, all the way, despite the budding tension between Shimizu and Maekawa.
Still Sick is really about two career women being ground down by the corporate machine finding friendship over a few months of sharing time and interests together. One an overly poetic nerd unconvincingly convinced that her only interest in yuri is in her art, one a happy-go-lucky frustrated burnout hiding her artistic side. Both, ultimately, lonely, and going to great lengths to pretend they aren't, but fall right into a relatively easy friendship quickly. Sure, there's some drama, but it's not the manufactured drama of a romance, especially the usual triangle; it's the dumb things friends do to piss each other off, and the dumb things we do to sabotage our own relationships, before calling a truce to get back to normal.
I …
Go into this expecting a steamy yuri manga and you will be disappointed. This is josei, all the way, despite the budding tension between Shimizu and Maekawa.
Still Sick is really about two career women being ground down by the corporate machine finding friendship over a few months of sharing time and interests together. One an overly poetic nerd unconvincingly convinced that her only interest in yuri is in her art, one a happy-go-lucky frustrated burnout hiding her artistic side. Both, ultimately, lonely, and going to great lengths to pretend they aren't, but fall right into a relatively easy friendship quickly. Sure, there's some drama, but it's not the manufactured drama of a romance, especially the usual triangle; it's the dumb things friends do to piss each other off, and the dumb things we do to sabotage our own relationships, before calling a truce to get back to normal.
I think this speaks a lot more to how incredibly overwhelming and powerful it can be to find someone who shares your hobby and just wants to be your friend as an adult. And how hard it can be to be friends with anyone when you're not a friend kind of person -- and don't like yourself.