I shall start by making note of the author: a cishet man who had no experience with or knowledge about anything LGBTQ+ prior to this title (save for erotic works). For a manga that tries its hardest to be positive to the community, it really falls short. Half-baked explanations, negative character depictions, etc....it is quite obvious the author is out of his element.
The main plot point in this series is that Gin, a crossdressing man (who is so femme-passing that only the singular trans character clocks him), is found out by an upperclassman from college, who happens to be a lesbian. At that point, I still had hope...but then that upperclassman begins blackmailing Gin to get close to a guy, which all boils down to her resentment over the fact that her former lover is pining for that same guy.
Stories like this are all well and good, but of the five main characters — Gin, Seiji, Sumon, Nakamachi, and Ogura, four of who are self-styled "sexual minorities": Seiji is gay, Sumon is a trans man, Nakamachi (the previously mentioned blackmailer) is a lesbian, and though she never outright states it, Ogura is bi / pan — the only "good" people are Gin and Sumon. The other three are depicted as emotionally unstable and / or manipulative, along with committing some form of sexual harassment on Gin.
All that to say: in a story that fancies itself "pro-LGBTQ+", it is difficult to take seriously when the majority of the LGBTQ+ cast is written so horribly.
