I love them and their lil love story

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I didn’t think I’d be doing this again this soon, but I just had a strong desire to, and my chosen subject deserves what little extra attention I can give it. Anyway, I’ve recently been running through the Iyashikei tag on TVtropes (I recently reblogged some stuff on the topic if you’re interested, and the site itself has a pretty good description), and I stumbled across the manga Yankee-kun to Hakujou Gaaru, or “Delinquent and White Cane Girl”, a romcom which hasn’t gotten an official English release yet. I won’t give any major spoilers, but here’s some things about it I like:

Morio Kurokawa. Main dude, titular delinquent with scar. Dumb Cinnamon roll.

Yukiko Akaza. Main girl, mostly blind (amblyopia). Whacks Kurokawa in the ass with her cane the day they first meet, and gives zero shits about how “scary” he is. Sassy cinnamon roll. Adorable af.

He immediately starts cleaning up his act for her, and is 100% unambiguous about his feelings.

He doesn’t get everything right about how to make things easier for a blind person right off the hop, but he tries his best and learns from his mistakes.

This manga’s really good at feeding the audience lots of useful tips for helping out a blind person without it a) pulling us out of the story, or b) coming off as preachy or pitying.

There’s some powerful commentary here about how society treats people who don’t fit in, and who need a little extra help.

Representation of people with physical disabilities (obviously), but also people with mental disabilities (not a lot so far, but would be interesting if they expand on this), and (so far just) one member of the lgbtq+ community who are not stereotypical in any way, shape or form.

Every character who gets any focus spent on them feels like a person. There are no walking cliches here.

It’s just a really thoughtful, funny story where the thoughtfulness gives the story a lot of depth and nuance that wouldn’t otherwise have been there.

Since the first time, I’ve known of that GD photo because that photo is ICONIC:

Understanble really. There’s a multitude of BigBang references in that show because (1) it’s BigBang, do you even need an explanation for that? and (2) both protagonists are YG models turned actor(ress).

BUT THEN I took a closer look and saw this:

THERE ARE 21 PHOTOS ON THIS SHOT, 8 OF WHICH ARE OF GD!! OMFG ! Nan Hui you absolute relatable trash 😂

Here’s a closer look of some of the photos up there:

And lastly, this photo that was in the corner shown in a later episode: