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]

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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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.

By - Luke Mahoney.

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