That's My Atypical Girl

I could have rated this a 10 honestly but the ending was kind of abrupt but then I guess thats a symptom every slice of life has. Anyways the entire story is a very compelling read and it doesnt fail to make you feel that coping with developmental issues just cannot be solved by some flowery prose and it will constantly remind you that it is a process that you just kind of have to tiptoe around hoping to find the correct rhythm to both address and prevent issues caused by the aforementioned developmental issues. I also guess this is the author's love letter tohis audience that may have experienced similar things to tell them that they are not alone that have experienced the same pains and that one can be hopeful for a future like this. Also the comedy can be hilarious at times - its not a lot but once its there, youll appreciate the break and realize that the FL is as human as anybody else. Lastly, it is just a very sweet series. Its full of hopes & dreams that gets slowly realized as time goes on and I guess thats because thats what the author intends us to interpret. Anyways, 9/10. I just want more content honestly.

Underrated doesn't even scratch the surface. I believe this is one of the best of all time. Hard to describe. Boy meets girl, but then you add mental health issues, and extremely realistic ones at that. You add a horrible past of abuse, and another past of loneliness and isolation. We keep adding, we keep changing, and we get a full picture of two, deeply hurt people, trying to live “just one more year”. It's a message about the world surrounding an autistic girl; a message about a man who hates people, but doesn't want to, a tale about life and finding those people wecan travel with, towards a happier tomorrow. The story starts with some newspaper carrier, and hentai artist that makes extremely bleak manga as passion projects that almost nobody reads. One person knocks on his door, and it's a fan of those projects, a girl that, for all intents and purposes, doesn't really plan to go away from this house. They start living together, getting to know each other, and it spirals into one of the deepest manga I've ever read. Life continues for these two as they become the only ones that understand each other, or that at LEAST try. It turns into a story of healing, but about the realistic repercussions of the process. It isn't easy, it isn't pretty, and the author shines a light into every aspect of it. Awkward, strange, heart-breaking, even hilarious. The good times, the bad ones, it comes and goes, and it feels like something special. I believe it's something special. You won't have it light reading it, and you'll always hope nothing bad happens to anybody, but life is always about tribulations. We fight for the good times, and people like here will always want the easier way out. They speak about killing themselves, they almost go through with it sometimes, but they always come out on top, not with roses, and rainbows, but through the grit of their teeth. A constant battle against life, but one in which we have somebody to hold our hand, and fight with us. Themes of loneliness, autism, abuse, bullying, revenge, forgiveness, situations where you'll never forgive, retrospective, love, sex, mental health, suicide, self-harm, it's so many, and it's all through the lenses of real, unforgiving, life. It's all shown with art that focuses on the close-up. Faces, the eyes, the expression, the piercing looks, the warm ones, the smiles, it's entirely focused on the human. It never decorates the frame, not does it intrude in a horrible moment when it happens. It happens as is, and the good moments are just as paid attention to. I love the art, and even if it becomes slightly sloppy with page-spreads, I still love it for what it is. It's got problems with perspective shots and showing a whole body doing an action, but since the rest is perfect, I have no qualms. The characters are perfect, the situations are perfect. If anybody needs to be used twice, they will, but if not, they don't need to be here. It's laser-focused on the elements that matter, and I love stories that do give us time to breathe, but understand the need for a story to be effective. It doesn't waste your time, and any lighthearted moment that needs to be there, will be there. This manga changed my life, my outlook, my feelings towards people. It touched my heart, and it broke me at many points. I've re-read it so many times while waiting for chapters to release, but yesterday it finally ended (with the Spanish scan, thank you Waifuswithsalsa for your work). It was perfect, that ending was perfect. 10/10. I firmly believe the story IS perfect. No other manga has made me feel like this one, and I recommend you read it. It's fun, but mostly very not fun. Worth every page turn.

I can't recommend this story enough. However, I will warn you that this is an adult story. Not that this has R-rated content, but it deals with mature topics. I can't praise the mangaka enough for how they handle mental disabilities and heavy subjects like addiction and suicide. A lot of manga tend to dramatize dark subjects so they have more impact on the story or the readers. Not here, here it feels real. I don't think I've ever seen a panic attack depicted so realistically. Even through all those dark things, this is a hopeful story. This is a story about healing and acceptance.It has become one of my favorite romance mangas and, in my opinion, deserves that 10/10.