Source: Gidre ぎどれ (@gidre_) - image reproduced and text translated (added off-frame) with permission
Artist deals with the heartbreak of online dating [manga]
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Recently, illustrator and manga artist Gidre ぎどれ (@gidre_) posted a story of an artist with a negative personality struggling to manage his emotions while navigating a tumultuous online fling. The manga struck a chord with many Japanese Twitter users, and at the time of writing, it has 46,000 likes and 12,000 retweets.
"About the guy with a negative personality* (from the manga I've been posting on Twitter) who meets a female follower."
* A Japanese slang term of recent vintage, inkya インキャ or 陰キャ is short for 陰キャラクター in-kyarakutā (negative character). It's opposite is yōkya ヨウキャ or 陽キャ (positive character).
With Gidre's kind permission, we translated it. Let's have a look...
(Read the frames from right to left)
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Reproduced with permission from Gidre ぎどれ (@gidre_)
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Reproduced with permission from Gidre ぎどれ (@gidre_)
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Reproduced with permission from Gidre ぎどれ (@gidre_)
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Reproduced with permission from Gidre ぎどれ (@gidre_)
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A painful end to it all.
If you liked this piece, you can find more on Gidre's Twitter account here and Pixiv Fanbox here. Check it out.