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This is painfully beautiful, yet also relieving.
I love that the story never assumed the role of telling its reader the definite answer to their problem. Living in a heteronormative society, and dealing with the trauma from sexual assualt hinders a persons capability to accept themself.
This story is amazing. It portrays, in a way that it's amusing (atleast in my perpective) and painfully realistic, the way other characters clumily try to justify what they deem as the norm.. Like when they push their views on romance to the main character. Or when they were unable to comprehend Arima's problem, going as far as to label it a mental illness. I am thankful that Taiga outrightly defended him. It also shows that the belief of these other characters is uncertain. Saying that they don't understand can be understood as them not knowing. To the reader, we are given the chance to be in any of these people's shoes.
In the end, another amazing thing is that we are given a story where the ignorant are not antagonized by the narrative. And that is also important.