Like Kabi’s earlier manga, My Alcoholic Escape from Reality is a diary comic drawn from her own experiences. In My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, she depicted her struggle with depression, her feelings of shame that she was unable to work full time or have a social life, and her initial sexual experience with an escort from a lesbian escort service. The comic was a huge hit in Japan as well as the U.S., but as she depicts in My Solo Exchange Diary, that success didn’t solve her problems.
In My Alcoholic Escape from Reality, Kabi self-medicates by drinking heavily, and then, after experiencing debilitating abdominal pains, she is hospitalized with pancreatitis. As she recovers from that illness she also begins to find her way back to a more balanced life and to rebuild her career as a manga creator.
