Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House - Vol. 14 Ch. 143 - How to Spend Your Summer Vacation

[Becca0618]

Not y’all saying coffee “hits different”😭

 

[flameshadowwolf]

Kiyo’s being super mellow as always but not visiting your old granny who lives alone? Couldn’t be me

 

[chusetto]

Glasses-san without the hairdo... That was surprising

 

[Raguel]

The slow shift back into focus for Kiyo is pretty nice. She's just...really mellow.

 

[betelgeuse]

they look so stylish, haha awesome

 

[Rossuhani]

Mother Ichii is so pretty

 

[Nixnaw]

Whoa, mother looks so much younger like that.
An afternoon doing nothing is luxury too.

 

[SuperOniichan]

@tamarakko I wouldn't be surprised if someone has already tried to identify her as autistic because of this.

 

[tamarakko]

@SuperOniichan I actually already started feeling Kiyo's behavior resembles a lot of someone's with autism.

Ever since the first chapters you can see how some characters describe her as 'weird', her mind shutting off when it's not about stuff she's interested in (aka food or anything related to kitchen) which was the reason she was not cut out to be a maiko, Suu mentioning Kiyo stays in her own world sometimes (such as talking to nonsentient objects), among other things.

Obviously we don't have evidence to believe it was the author's intent and they probably just wrote these as traits to make her character endearing to the viewer. But then we have to go through the frustration of what we talked about in this chapter, so imo seeing Kiyo as an autistic girl with flaws makes her more human than the simple interpretation of her being an overly innocent girl that does everything in a robot-like way just because she feels like it.

 

[SuperOniichan]

@tamarakko Well, although it is nothing more than fanon at the moment, I personally see no problem with this interpretation. In my opinion, it wouldn't change the plot much.

 

[Maplereads]

your reading this so deeply

 

[imhungryn0w]

As someone once so aptly put it: "Whoa mumma!"