Ball and Chain

"Maybe I could have chosen something different..."

Keito is an office worker in her late twenties preparing for marriage as a woman, despite not feeling aligned with a specific gender or sexuality. Meanwhile, Aya is a married woman in her fifties who continues on as a wife in a marriage that has gone cold.

They both struggle with the gender assigned to them at birth and a wife role that has become nothing more than a charade. This is the story of two queer people who question the way they have been pushed into a normalized box as they try to reclaim their true selves.

(Source: Manga Mavericks Books, edited)