Originally published on Cohost.
Please Read Blue Flag.
it’s tagline is “An unexpected love quadrangle with a dash of unrequited love.” and hoo boy they were not kidding about the love quadrangle:
that’s right! we have a whopping 3/4 characters being some form of queer.
Diagram alt text & extra info:
- Taichi (dark haired guy, small):
- -> Toma: childhood friends
- -> Futaba: in love
- -> Masumi: acquaintance. thinks she’s mean to him
- Toma -> Big Girl: thinks he has a crush
- Futaba -> Toma: thinks she has a crush, so doesn’t act on his own crush
- Toma (light haired guy, big & strong):
- -> Taichi: in love (Gay!)
- -> Futaba: good friend
- -> Masumi: good friend, knows about her crush on Futaba
- Taichi <-> Futaba: knows about their mutual attraction
- Futaba (light haired girl, small):
- -> Taichi: “likes”, but actually in love with
- -> Toma: wants to be (in a Trans way!), but doesn’t realize this and thinks it’s love
- I’m still using she/her pronouns for her since she’s clearly an eggy trans, never outright confirmed, only hinted at quite a lot
- -> Masumi: good friends
- Masumi (dark haired girl, aloof):
- -> Taichi: acquaintance. thinks he needs to man up about his feelings more.
- -> Toma: good friends, knows about his crush on Toma
- -> Futaba: in love (Lesbian!)
Some notes about this diagram:
- It contains spoilers, but also I believe they’re the kind of spoilers that enhance the manga; the start is pretty slow and having this knowledge going in makes it better
- These relations do shift a bit as time goes on, but this is sort of the baseline for how the drama works.
- One could add more characters to this diagram, but this is the core of the quadrangle upon which most of the drama is built.
anyways yeah it’s really really good & only 54 chapters (8 volumes), please give it a shot if u like coming-of-age manga that grapple with queerness.