Himegoto: Juukyuusai no Seifuku
HIME-GOTO: uniforms at the age of nineteen

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I truly love this manga, so forgive me for any bias. At its core Himegoto is a story about youth, and the methods in which characters aim to achieve and preserve what remains of it which in this story, primarily manifest in the form of their sexual expression and identities. It's extremely dramatic and it does involve a love triangle, though unlike many other stories, the circumstances and dynamic in it is extremely unique and interplays off each other wonderfully.

Every single of the main character's are amazing in their own way, and represent something different about sexual identity, with even one of the side ... characters being interesting in their own right and offering some entertaining perspective. My favorite part is simply the complexity of these emotions, rather then offering a surface-level analysis of oh I feel this way and hence want to act like this, it instead delves into the psyche and circumstances behind the way they are.

If you like psychological stories that explore sexual identity and just complicated feelings in general, then I think you'll like this. Then again, despite the fact that I dislike matters of sex in general, I still found a lot of enjoyment from this manga, so I would still highly suggest it.

This manga was honestly the most insane I've read to date, the character motivations are so fucked up, I kept reading because I was so invested and needed to know wtf was going on but I was honestly so frustrated, disgusted and annoyed reading this. So much drama and coercion so if you're not into that I definitely would not recommend, if you like that type of thing this will be right up your alley.

Overall very engaging story with a lot of drama.
Art was good.
Each character was very multifaceted with well built personalities.

I however did not enjoy the excess of manipulation, ... coercion and drama which is why my score was lowered.

I picked this up as I thought it was going to provide a very insightful aspect on gender issues. What I ended up getting was a manga version of Young and the Restless. Convoluted plots, contradicting circumstances, drawn out plots, etc. For instance, one of the biggest points of contention was when Sho (side character) sexually assaulted Yuki (main character). But didn't the main love interests (Mikako and Kaito) also sexually assault Yuki??? So um why is it bad in one case and not the others??? This point alone made it very difficult for me to get into the story but I kept on reading... ... doesn't improve. I do not recommend reading.