There’s a flashback sequence of her in high school. However, she then says she immediately related to the term because “she couldn’t fall in love with people because she struggled to live as her gender.”
She discusses how while she was researching LGBTQ+ topics for her manga My Secret Affection, she learned about the term “pansexual”, which she correctly defines as “your attraction to someone isn’t dependent on their gender.” For those of you who can’t, here is a paraphrased overview of the parts relevant to the drama: For those of you who can read Japanese, you can read the entire manga here to judge for yourself. This essay manga was titled as Living was painful, but it turned out I was just pansexual, but was quickly nicknamed as the パンセク漫画 ( panseku manga), or pan manga. An essay manga is a typically auto-biographical manga that describes the author’s life experience on a particular topic. On April 29th, 2022, Mikami posted the following essay manga (now deleted) on her Twitter.
