New Read - Is Love the Answer?

Is Love the Answer? is a story of self-discovery for Chika as she embraces her true self as an asexual person.

Before I go too far, I want to note an early volume trigger warning - there is a scene where Chika's the boyfriend tries to push himself onto her sexually. She makes it clear she doesn't want it and he stops, but it is a potentially triggering panel.

Continuing on.

The story begins in high school with Chika feeling weird, isolated, and hating that she can't feel "normal" like her friends when it comes to dating / sex. She has never really felt sexual attraction to anyone and when she discusses it with friends, she is constantly brushed off.

That is, until she gets to college and meets an asexual Professor who helps her to find the words to describe how she feels and who she is. The entire story is about Chika learning to understand herself, her new friends she makes who embrace her as she is, and the community of folks she surrounds herself with. From beginning to end she goes from alien, in her mind / the minds of her friends to trusted friend who actually helps mediate a relationship issue between two others.

It is a well crafted story provides asexual representation. In the closing notes on the manga, mangaka Uta Isaki, notes they wanted specifically wanted more asexual representation in manga with characters who were more sociable and friendly, in their view.

This is the fourth work of Uta Isaki I've read, the previous three were self-published works translated by Irodori Comics. All are great and I definitely recommending looking into their work!

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