I really enjoyed this!!! I've been wanting to get back into reading yuri manga, and can see why this one in particular is immensely popular online.

TGSWIIWAGAT (or green yuri manga for short) is a pretty silly, upbeat story about mistaken identity, when popular girl Aya unknowingly falls for a boy who works at a CD shop, without realising it's her female classmate, Mitsuki, and bond over their love of western music.

Obviously, as someone not from Japan, it can be kind of funny when

Aya is lamenting about how people don't know hugely successful bands like Nirvana and Radiohead

, but I don't know much about Japanese music culture, so it probably makes sense. Plus, I think it's actually quite a universal part of the queer experience. It wasn't just my queerness that made me feel isolated- it was also the type of shows I watched, the books I read- so I found myself relating to both girls in trying to hide those interests from others.

Mitsuki's

later back story reveal about her being targeted for her disregard of traditional feminine gender roles

was also really sad, as I complete understood it. Even before I had realised my own queerness as a child, it was like other people could already tell something was different or wrong with me. So, even as a grown adult, I still related so much to their stories.

So TDLR: a cute and touching story about queerness and how that relates to music.