press.exe<p><strong>Story Pile: A Sign of Affection</strong></p><p>You know an anime is going to be a time when just looking up ‘hey, who made this’ is a question with three answers one of which is only available in chunks on fandom wikis because that’s a space where no information is too unreliable to be posted. A SIgn of Affection is a 2024 anime, and it’s a 2019 manga, made by a plural femme authorial identity known as Suu Morishita, which may be two people who each have their own pen names, or may be something else and I don’t have the insight into who or how. The anime and manga were made with the consultancy of Yuzuki Miyazaki (Yuki for short in the translated interviews I’ve seen, which is coincidentally the name of the main character of the series) and now I’ve gotten through what’s normally the first clause of a first sentence.</p><p>A Sign of Affection is a pedestrian romantic love story about two people with a shared interest in communication. He’s an impossibly hot, stylish maybe-biracial language geek who loves to learn different ways to talk to people, and she’s a shut-in college student who’s experiencing her first days interacting with people and learning how they communicate, because oh yeah she’s also deaf.</p><p>Content and Spoiler Warning: I’m going to talk about some of the material that shows up in the later parts of the story, and about how the core romance the story sets up in the first episode plays out to an extent. This isn’t a story built around a dreadful amount of tension and I’m about to dissolve it. Also, this story is light on stuff I’d normally warn about content-wise, but I am going to use the term ‘deaf’ to refer to a character, and you may not be here for that language choice. We are crossing multiple language barriers here.</p><p>For anyone unaware of what that might be, it’s that ‘deaf’ is a term that not every person who cannot hear self-applies. There are people who cannot hear at all who do not consider themselves deaf and there are people whose hearing is only slightly below what we medically diagnose as ‘poor’ that consider themselves deaf. Deafness is a social construct and we’ll talk more about what that means.</p><p> […]</p><p><a href="https://press.invincible.ink/story-pile-a-sign-of-affection/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">press.invincible.ink/story-pil</span><span class="invisible">e-a-sign-of-affection/</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://press.invincible.ink/tag/a-sign-of-affection/" target="_blank">#ASignOfAffection</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://press.invincible.ink/tag/anime/" target="_blank">#Anime</a></p>