Asper Kanojo

[Nailim_ixaM]

dayn girl, I understand u too much

 

[vannn]

This could have gone a lot of ways, but so far so good.

 

[OuterRem]

Good god this series is so heart breaking and heart warming at the same time. Yokoi really is one of the most realistically thoughtful manga characters I've ever seen.

 

[Spinaple]

Hmmm. As always, this series troubles me. On one hand, their relationship is warm, but on the other... Is over-reliance on each other like that healthy?

 

[eviljackspicer]

This is beyond aspergers. This girl needs a doctor first, not a boyfriend.

 

[kevytpiima]

@eviljackspicer Problem with mental health is that it's all just so relative. She was pretty incentivised to dying, when coming to Yokoi's place. Sometimes putting somebody in mental ward, will do more harm than good. It's not a perfect nor a sustainable situation, but at least Yokoi is trying his ass off.

 

[Urabask]

@eviljackspicer:

This is beyond aspergers. This girl needs a doctor first, not a boyfriend.

She needs both. Doctors push pills and therapy that take years of work to see a result. Support from those close to a patient plays a significant role making that kind of treatment work. Ensuring compliance with medication in particular is really difficult otherwise.

 

[carero12]

It deserves more attention.

 

[burmn123]

The manga could have ended in chapter 22. It would be a good ending.

 

[tomiclotz]

So far, so depressing. There are sweet moments here and there but it's pretty fucking heavy. Maybe because I got the 'tism and can relate to Saitou.

 

[YUWIN]

My favorite romance manga of the whole decade (2010s). Manga usually never touches as seriously and explicitly on mental illness quite like this one, especially concerning autism and other related neuropsychiatric disorders. It's an unusually nuanced, sensitive and sometimes devastating read about coping and understanding people who are just a bit different than the rest of us, and how some countries and civilizations treat these misfits with differing results, either with, while good-intentioned, impatience/ignorance or excessive coddling and downplaying of their intelligence and humanity as people. This manga displays a morally grey world, while also providing a bit of hope at the end of the tunnel for these kinds of people in such places of the world.

 

[Ambushments]

I don't know how i found this manga but i am happy i did

 

[iloveaquariums123]

so perfect. catharsis. therapeutic just reading it.

 

[eviljackspicer]

No, No, No.

She NEEDS a doctor. She is substituting everything with an unhealthy relationship where she is emotionally dependent on another person to the point she is almost crippled by this aspect. And the guy doesn't help either by just looking the other way when she has her outbursts. This is just reinforcing bad behavior to a point it will be almost impossible to for her to undo.

 

[superbird]

I wrote a review of Asuperu Kanojo. It was a tough series to review.
https://longhandhabits.com/2020/01/10/asuperu-kanojo-review/

 

[homogenized]

@superbird
Pardon, but wanted to nitpick something about your review. You said "his self-published original works don't do as well as his doujin, but "self-published original works" are doujin. Sorry, but conflating "doujin" with "porn manga" is a pet peeve of mine.

 

[superbird]

@homogenized Whoops, sorry. I was under the impression doujin were fan written/drawn comics of other series, not original works. I’ll fix that when I get home.

 

[homogenized]

@superbird
Basically, "doujinshi" means any self-published work; whether fan-work or original, porn or non-porn, manga, novel, game, music, anything as long as it's self-published. Pretty much synonymous with "indie".

 

[Katmaii]

ive been wanting to drop this manga for a while now because i can't handle the anxiety of waiting if the next chapter will be a happy or a depressing one. but the story is just too good and not knowing whats happens on the next chapter makes me more anxious

 

[rookgard]

@eviljackspicer as a fellow with a light Asperger's syndrome condition, i agree that a doctor is a must, to help improve your mental health and stability, as such proper medication is needed. BUT, i can say for my own experience, that the environment that someone with Asperger's syndrome is, has a huge impact on that person, and depending on how severe it is, can be as such it is depicted in this manga. And if that person in question is in a place that don't stress her/him over, but instead helps to calm down, it's a great help that that person needs. I say that for personal experience, because when i was at high school, i was taunted very often, and i would do the same as her, react with violence, because that was the only way of "answering" i knew. Only after i graduated and left that stressful place i was able to control myself more and interact in other ways.

But regarding her situation in specific, i agree that she needs a doctor. But again, she has traumas, don't trust other people easily, and has 3 conditions: Asperger, panic attacks and OCD. That's not something easily handled by many doctors, and even some psychiatrists would have a hard time with this mix. She's better with Yokoi, that even not being a doctor or anything, understands her every need, and helps her calm down whenever needed.