Chieri’s Love is 8 Metres, if nothing else, is a great example of a case study of how blatantly you can insert your fetishes into a manga before someone calls you out on it.
Debuting on Jump Plus, the manga revolves around Kotaki Yumeji, a boy dealing with a quirky girl in his life as well as the struggles of puberty, like so many other popular series.
The only difference here is that in his case, this girl isn’t a cheeky kouhai teasing him or a cosplayer crushing on him, instead she’s an 8-meter tall girl also going through her own growing pains.
Only the first chapter is available right now, and as expected they don’t really get into the why-and-hows of the 8-metre schoolgirl- instead Chieri’s Love Is 8 Metres is an interesting appeal that you, too, might one day have a size fetish.
By all accounts, Chieri is acting like your normal highschool romcom lead- teasing him about lending stationery, as well as complaining about making things more cute.
The kicker is just how much of the introductory chapter feels like a subliminal defense of the size fetish– it steers away from obvious sexualization and instead focuses on its core tenet- that sometimes you just want to meet a big lady who takes care of you.
Considering how tastefully the first chapter is being handled, it’ll definitely be an interesting read as it goes on, maybe even possibly getting official English support via MangaPlus in future if it does well.