I Can't Believe I Slept With You! Vol. 1

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From a personal perspective, I found this side of I Can’t Believe I Slept With You! to be exceedingly relatable. Having lived through one failed marriage (my present one is just fine, thanks very much) whose complete breakdown coincided with a period of unemployment, I’ve been almost exactly where Chiyo is at the outset of I Can’t Believe I Slept With You! — broke, feeling utterly worthless and terrified of the prospect of doing even the most simple necessities alone. The series is licensed for an English release in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment. [6] No.

This seems to be a week where books are pulling a fast one on me based on the expectations they’re setting with their descriptions. Make no mistake, Koduka is over a barrel here and she does indeed take Landlady (I will be referring to her as such for the review because of reasons) up on her offer.After a workplace incident forced her to quit her job, Koduka ended up in a deep depression and three months behind on her rent. Her landlady comes calling and offers to exchange sex for her assistance with Koduka’s problems. Except her problems might just be beginning… Koduka is a disaster - she is clearly grappling with depression after her job went sideways and everything about her life has fallen down in the meantime. So when Landlady offers her this extensive favour system to provide ongoing debt relief for services of any kind, not just sexual, Koduka says yes and gets a roomie in the bargain (which may not make sense on paper, but I assure you this might be the only manga where this actually makes a modicum of sense to occur).

Landlady is not straight and very up front about that, but, while she certainly did the deed with Koduka, she turns out to have a lot of regret (and general melancholy about the loneliness her orientation has caused her). And it might just be that she’s after something more than sex (we actually know this pretty early on). There’s a lot of hinting that the reason Landlady regrets the sex is because her feelings run a lot deeper and the offer might have been an opening she took, to her own dismay. As we continue in the manga, is it hinted that the Landlady has feelings for Koduka, which could be the reason as to why she is doing what she. The Landlady also seems more put together than Koduka, such as cleaning and cooking, which one wouldn't expected mostly because Koduka is older. Twenty-four-year-old Koduka Chiyo quits her job and is three months behind on her. Her landlady will reduce the costs and help her, if she has sex with her. Which happens, but Koduka doesn't have much memories about it, because she was drunk, though she has flashes of memory later on. Each time Koduka does something for the Landlady she will cross off a number on the calendar. Could a regretful one-night stand blossom into an actual relationship? And what difficulties lie in a relationship where one party isn’t even sure of their own persuasion? I Can’t Believe I Slept With You manages to propose this question and begin exploring its answer all while maintaining a sweet charm that errs on the side of comedy more so than drama. I Can’t Believe I Slept With You isn’t the first yuri manga to explore the concept of uncertain sexuality and attraction among queer couples — Tsukiatte agete mo ii ka na (How Do We Relationship?) springs to mind — but it’s wonderful to see more yuri stories approach lesbian relationships from a questioning angle.So this is clearly about to be some smutty book where an older woman is forced into trading sex for rent as she struggles to figure out her life… or is it? There’s a power imbalance in I Can’t Believe I Slept With You. It’s notably reversed from the usual societal structure, since Chiyo is five years older than her landlady, but Hara maintains the power over her thanks to her position.

After Koduka Chiyo quits her job and spends her time wallowing in self-pity she becomes three months behind on her rent. Her landlady proposes an unusual solution: perform favors for her in exchange for the owed money – with the first being that the two sleep together. After a one-night stand, the two women decide to keep the arrangement, slowly growing closer over the coming months. I've decided to try and see how risque a few "usually in sealed bags at Barnes and Noble" manga are, but under the stipulation I can get them through the public library. I Can't Believe I Slept With You was a title I saw on the shelf at a local bookstore. Paging through it briefly, I realized it was yuri (manga focusing on romantic/sexual relationships between women) and thought I'd add it to my test. This is the third title I tested. Nov 24 Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space Releases an Update Featuring a New Episode 'The Cliffs of Wyrmrest (Wryz Saga I)' on November 24 This is brought to a head in a chapter where the landlady requests a date with Chiyo as one of her “favours” for the day. Chiyo, believing this to be a light-hearted, silly thing, initially doesn’t take it all that seriously — but realises that she’s made a mistake when the landlady shows up clearly having made an effort. From hereon, it’s clear that Chiyo is starting to look at the landlady a little differently — and the climax of this comes where a former acquaintance of the landlady stumbles across her and Chiyo sitting together at a mall food court. For her part, it’s clear that Hara is lonely and confused. She struggles with female friendship, fearing that she’ll inevitably end up attracted to someone and end up hurt or rejected. A few instances throughout the volume suggest Hara has been on the receiving end of homophobic judgement before, and that she genuinely wants a passionate relationship but struggles to find the right person. She clearly took advantage of Chiyo’s situation to fulfill her own desires, but she also regrets that decision, especially since her feelings for Chiyo seem to run deep.

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For most of I Can’t Believe I Slept With You! the landlady comes across as a likeable but deadpan sort of character; she’s open about her preferences and bluntly honest to a fault, but we see occasional hints of her vulnerability when she’s alone, such as the conclusion of a chapter where she’s crouching on the floor muttering the unfinished thought “straight people are so…” Consent matters in all relationships, and is something we could talk about with regards to many romantic drama manga, but it’s especially important in LGBT+ content where queer people are often vilified as being ‘dominant’ or ‘pushy’ with their sexuality. We really appreciated that the mangaka took the time and thought carefully about making consent such an important part of the plot. What follows is a rather touching story about the struggles of adulthood when things haven’t quite gone the way you expect them to. Through Chiyo, I Can’t Believe I Slept With You! explores the idea of how, when you get yourself into a difficult or seemingly “impossible” situation as a grown adult — old enough to “know better”, as it were — it’s hard to ask for help, even when it’s obvious that you need it.