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I don’t think I’ll love NuraMago this much if not for NuraxHime *cries* For the first time I had an otp who’s canon, yet it still hurts me TAT I’m definitely making more!!

I’ve finally finished nurarihyon no mago

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abhorticulture replied to your post: serial narratives that never betrayed or seriously…

WHAT IS CAT STREET TELL ME MORE

I actually wrote half a post on this once! (And then never finished it, whoops.)

Aoyama Keito was an incredibly gifted child actress with a high-flying career—until she froze onstage during the grand opening of her play, standing stock-still and completely insensible for twenty minutes. Until she became “Keito who lost her voice,” a curiosity and a subject of gossip. She stopped acting, dropped out of school, and retreated into herself, even eating meals alone in her room.

This story is not really about that. This story is about rebuilding.

Cat Street is the story of four kids who attend a school called El Liston, “the wandering path,” a school for people who, for whatever reason, can’t attend normal school. All of them are a little damaged. All of them have trouble with other people. But they have this school, and they have each other, and gradually they heal and begin to be able to make their way in the larger world again.

I always think of Cat Street as a mental illness narrative, but I don’t know that it’s quite right—what I really mean is more like, it feels like a narrative for people like me, because it’s so much about learning to live well when just living often feels like a constant struggle. When things that are easy for everyone else are horribly hard for you; when your whole life feels defined by how you are not normal. And I don’t know how people with different sets of brain problems will feel about it, but it meant a hell of a lot to me at fifteen, a scared kid with an anxiety disorder she didn’t know enough to understand as such. It will always mean a lot to me in that sense.

(There is no such thing as a late or early start. You—understand what I’m saying, don’t you?)

Anyway, I highly recommend Cat Street. It’s not without its flaws—the second half feels a little rushed and the last arc is kind of weird—but I don’t think any of them damage the emotional integrity of the series, which is what really matters to me. And when it’s good, it’s really, really good.

You can read Cat Street for free here.