Makeup with Mud Manga Reviews

This review contains spoilers. I like how realistic this is, and how the characters' psychology is explored.
How the main character slowly builds her confidence and dares to choose her own path, managing to realise the toxicity of the relationship she's in.
How the character who seemed so free and self confident actually hides his own struggles, too.
But also how in spite of those hardships, he chooses to remain true to himself, in spite of the pressure. And I like how he allows himself express himself and to dress however he wants without feeling he has to conform to gender codes imposed on him by others.
I also like how the toxic abusive boyfriend isn't merely presented as a brute, which would have been the easy way, but the reader is made to understand that even he is struggling with his own past, although the author doesn't excuse his attitude and his actions.
It's rare to read manga that explores the complexity of human psychology like that.
I can't wait to read the rest!

This review contains spoilers. I do love the story, this can hit home to anyone who has ever dealt with a psychologically abusive relationship. This feels artistically subtle of how deep it can penetrate you to the point of questioning how the life that you have come to know as normal will elicit the frightening coping skills needed to live without your abuser should you break free.
I can't wait for Chapter 43!!!!!