The tension fueling the manga is as much “Will they or won’t they?” as it is “Will they both have the confidence to?” “Do they trust each other enough?” “Do they trust themselves?” Changing your life to accommodate a sexual awakening that brings you happiness is inconvenient and scary. But Akari and Ayano are not the fetishized glamorous yuri manga protagonists who can throw it all away for each other, or simply live with a beautiful secret. Finding love creates the possibility that life might not be good enough without it.
Sapphism flies in the face of all their careful planning and preparation. That brief moment of blissful mutual acceptance opens up a labyrinth of conflicts, Ayano confronted by her repression, Akari by distrust and resentment built up over years of grief and unfulfilled possibilities, both by the lives they built for themselves where their own happiness was never really part of the plan. Something is beginning, but cannot be expressed. They are connected, they like each other, they are both women, it is exhilarating.
A chance encounter at a bar leads to a kiss and an exchange of phone numbers. Both are professionals settled into a stable life in feminized careers: Ayano is an elementary school teacher, Akari is a waitress. Even though We’re Adults brings together two queer women, one deeply repressed, the other jaded from years spent in the closet.
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