Is Love the Answer? (Kimi no Sekai ni Koi wa Nai, "There is No Love in Your World") is a manga by Uta Isaki, which was serialized in the josei publication Hatsu Kiss from 2020 to 2021 and compiled into a single volume. Kodansha USA has licensed the manga in English.
Chika Hanai has never had a crush on anyone or felt the desire for a romantic or sexual relationship, and starts wondering if there's something wrong with her. With everyone around her talking about love and dating, she often feels like an outsider who just can't understand others, at times even questioning if she's actually human.
Upon starting college, she discovers that there are words for how she feels, that there's others like her out there... and that trying to be or understand society's idea of "normal" is not as important as being true to and accepting yourself.
Is Love the Answer provides examples of:
- Blind Date: During high school, one of Chika's friends sets her up with a boy from a different school. They try dating, but as Chika doesn't feel comfortable with the relationship or it going any further, they break up.
- Coming-Out Story: The story is about Chika realizing she's asexual, meeting others like her and coming to accept herself.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: At the start of the story, Chika keeps wondering why she can't get into relationships or feel attracted to others like "normal" people. She eventually discovers that there's a word for how she feels - asexual - and that the important thing is to be true to yourself.
- LGBT Awakening: Chika realizes she's asexual after taking a test, and reading about asexuality. She also finds out she may not fully identify as female, occasionally feeling more genderless.
- Marriage of Convenience: Ishii and Miya aren't attracted to each other and were never dating, but are close friends and co-workers who decided to get married after Miya got seriously sick and Ishii couldn't visit him in the hospital at first due to not being family. With neither of them having other family, they decide to get married in case any issues came up in the future.
- Mentor in Queerness: Ishii, the asexual and aromantic psychology professor, becomes this to Chika, telling her that there's nothing wrong with her, that there's no need to strive to be "normal" and that there's no "right" or "wrong" way to be asexual if you feel the word describes you.
- Mistaken for Romance: Enomoto ships two characters in one of her favorite manga, insisting there's a romantic connection between them. Chika doesn't see it.
- Near-Rape Experience: After Chika enters Kimijima's house, he pins her to the ground and starts ripping her shirt open, since he assumes that the only reason she'd want to come over to his place is to have sex with him. He only stops when the clearly shocked and uncomfortable Chika yells at him to stop.
- Questioning Title?: Is Love the Answer? (As Chika realizes, no, it's not.)
- Show Within a Show: Magical Girl Rosette, a Magical Girl anime Chika used to watch as a kid. She rediscovers her love for it in college.
- Yaoi Fangirl: Enomoto is a self-proclaimed fujoshi who draws BL doujinshi and squees over her favorite pairings.
