#MangaMonday 97 “Love’s in Sight” by Uoyama

A cute romantic comedy about a high school girl, Yukiko, and a delinquent, Mori. The twist in this one is that Yukiko is blind. The REAL twist is that this is also an exploration of how society treats people who don’t fit expectations.

On one level this is a typical high school romcom. The delinquents all have hearts of gold and everyone gets embarrassed about everything. It uses the 4-panel gag #manga format frequently. But Yukiko’s blindness isn’t cartoonish (she has a degree of sight) and the obstacles she faces are realistic, from infrastructure to people.

Mori starts as a cartoonish delinquent character, but proves to be pretty empathetic. He quickly realizes that Yukiko’s difficulties also apply to some degree to older people and finds a niche for himself revamping a local video store.

Complete with all eight volumes in English (Viz.)

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