Vol 1 of LGBT+ romance drama series Blue Flag just released in English and it's excellent - an expertly told and skilfully drawn story of a love triangle between a plain high school boy, their closeted best friend and a girl who likes him. This is shaping up to be a MUST read

This manga, which ran in Shonen Jump+, really represents a breakthrough IMO - very few Shonen Jump stories have ever touched on LGBT+ topics beyond joke characters, and furthermore that the gay character is athletic and mascuiline

Tai really hits that sweetspot for me of plain high school boy protagonist who's relatable and fun to watch, tries to help his classmates but also is kind of not a great person.

I love their friendship

I really like how distinctively the 3 main characters are drawn - for example the mangaka gives Futaba such a brilliant range of expressions, very well done

"I had no idea yet how it'd turn out" hmm I have my theories about how this might end up shaking out (the manga ended very recently in Japan), if I'm right the journey from here to there will be interesting...

I really can't praise the mangaka's art enough, especially the feature pages like this stand out so much

I can't get over how when Toma told Taichi about the sort of "girl" he likes he included just one truth, ie, about Tai's own black hair and he looked right at him. The closest he could come to confessing - damn I can tell this manga is going to emotionally DESTROY me