Truly Kindly
- Creator
- Fumi Yoshinaga
- Genre
- romance anime and manga · yaoi
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• Ja Kanji — 本当に、やさしい。 • Ja Romaji — Hontō ni, Yasashii. • Genre — Yaoi, Romance
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• Type — manga • Author — Fumi Yoshinaga • Publisher — Biblos • Magazine — Magazine Be × Boy • Published — March 1997 • Volumes — 1 Truly Kindly is a one-shot Japanese manga written and illustrated by Fumi Yoshinaga. Biblos released the manga in March 1997. It is licensed and published in North America by Blu on August 14, 2007.
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Pop Shock Culture's Katherine Dacey criticises the manga for her feelings of déjà vu "with its recycled character designs, clumsy socio-political lectures masquerading as conversation, and the “I didn’t realize how much I liked you until you forced yourself on me!” epiphanies that her uke characters experience". Coolstreak Cartoons's Leroy Douresseaux describes the "mix of poignancy and surprises" in the manga as "engaging". Mania.com's Danielle Van Gorder commends the manga's "character's expressions, which can convey volumes without words". Jason Thompson, writing for the appendix to Manga: The Complete Guide, noted that Truly Kindly was one of Yoshinaga's early works, saying that "some of the plot twists feel arbitrary", and her art feels "flat", but the rest of the anthology "are just plain good relationship stories".
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- 1.Amazon.co.jp. 1997. 978-4882716419.
- 2.Amazon.com. Fumi Yoshinaga's: Truly Kindly (Yaoi). 7 August 2007. 978-1427800558.
- 3.Dacey, Katherine. Lovers in the Night and Truly, Kindly (BLU Manga). Pop Shock Culture. March 14, 2008.
- 4.Douresseaux, Leroy. Fumi Yoshinaga's Truly Kindly. Coolstreak Cartoons. September 9, 2007.
- 5.Van Gorder, Danielle. Truly Kindly Vol. #01. Mania.com. December 4, 2007.
- 6.Thompson, Jason. 365 Days of Manga, Day 88: Truly Kindly. Suvudu.com. 12 December 2009.
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