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Sol Ater - Eros 10

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It's a Japanese show about two AroAce characters who try to make a life together and support each other in the face of society's expectations. My first post here and my second one there.

By the way, thanks a million @guzhufuren for including it in your guide to the best queer Japanese shows!! I would not have discovered it without you <3

I was in love on principle because, you know, AroAce rep?! On screen?!? As the main plot!?!?!

But it was also really good and I love it and I will rewatch it and make it my entire personality!!

Anyway, first of all: actual canon labels. By which I mean, I am not the one taking characters who say they aren't interested in romance or sex and calling them AroAce. They both explicitly label themselves as such. And while characters just, living their life, can be good (like, half of the BL don't even use the word gay), for an identity that is so often ignored, having actual text to back it up feels great!

Also, watching Sakuko find the aroace label after wondering if she was broken brought me to actual tears from sheer joy and relief. And that hadn't happen to me in a while!

By the end of the show, my dearest Sakuko and Satoru are living what basically accounts for my absolute dream life! I, too, want to move to the countryside to become a farmer and have the kind of relationships where we call each other too cook together and also live in the other's house even when he's moved out.

And I want aspec friends! Like, my whole friends group is queer, but still allo. That aspec meeting looked great! They even had little flags!!!

Also props for all the allo characters who also struggle with amatonormativity.

Overall : great show, great characters, splendid exploration of aroace tensions and facings with amatonormativity. 10/10, no notes (so many notes), will watch again.