WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh my god!!!! huge!!!!!!!!!!
i had been looking forward to this after seeing a preview on bluesky-- just the few pages i had seen had already hooked me in, and finally getting to see the full work has again, absolutely blown me away.
the story is painfully realistic. i unfortunately entered the world of kig after that era, so while i never got to experience it first hand, i recognize this story in so many of the friends i've made and people i've met through it all. i really, really appreciated that you portrayed it so truthfully through that period-appropriate no-homo filter :,)
and the formatting!!! good lord!!!!! the layouts are FANTASTIC. the backgrounds, the art, the texture, everything adds onto the already-great text. you can absolutely tell when someone has fun with graphic design, and that radiates from each page of this zine!!
thank you so very very much for participating in this jam...!!!! i hope you're able to get to try on a hotaru of your own someday soon <3