#Torikai Akane

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Morning cover 2024年48 issue

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Sensei's Pious Lie

先生の白い嘘 (2024)

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Fantagraphics and MSX: Mangasplaining Extra Unveil Two New Manga Titles

Fantagraphics and MSX: Mangasplaining Extra Unveil Two New Manga Titles #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel #manga

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First Volume Spotlight: ‘Bad Babies Don’t Cry’ Manga By Akane Torikai http://dlvr.it/TG9C6M

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“if you think you can make me happy, then i want you to try.”

— sensei's pious lie | akane torikai

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En proie au silence T2 d'Akane TORIKAI

Entre sentiments troublants et révélations inattendues, l'histoire prend des tournures inattendues. Une lecture déroutante mais intrigante, où la mangaka Akane Torikaï aborde des thèmes puissants avec une plume provocante.

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Mangasplaining Licenses the Wandering Cat's Cage Manga

Anime News Network is reporting that Mangasplaining has licensed Akane Torikai’s Wandering Cat’s Cage manga, and will begin serializing it in the Mangasplaining Extra (MSX) newsletter in August 2023. Fantagraphics will publish the manga in print in one omnibus volume in Fall 2024. The manga is described as: In Wandering Cat’s Cage, daring manga creator Akane Torikai presents a thought-provoking…

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that woman literally just went "you need more dick in your life" to a woman she doesn't even know

no, she needs that water critter her son brought house to live; and then probably that too

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September manga-haul weeks 2+3

I can read in three languages. I mean, I’m not as fluent in French as I am in English (proficiecy - c2- certificate) or in Spanish (mother language), but I understand it fairly well, just don’t make me write long sentences because I struggle.

So we have here Sensei no Shiroi Uso v3 (En proie au silence) by Torikai Akane in French. Ao no Flag v8 (final volume) by Kaito and Cardcaptor Sakura deluxe edition v2 by CLAMP in Spanish. Haikyu!! v33 and v34 by Furudate Haruichi in English, and Spy x Family v3 by Tetsuya Endo in Spanish

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‘Bad Babies Don’t Cry’ Manga By Akane Torikai Gets Upcoming Weekly Morning Cover http://dlvr.it/TFffmt

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american dog manga

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AKANE TORIKAI

is a mangaka and feminist known for her manga Sensei no Shiroi Uso and Saturn Return, works that represent the reality that girls live, their fears and frustrations. She draws and writes by and for women.

Akane Torikai was born on August 13, 1981 in a prefecture of Osaka. She had a somewhat complicated adolescence and found solace in the manga she read. Akane actually started drawing by copying the style of 90's shōjo manga.

While studying art at Kyoto University, she discovered mangaka and feminist Kyōko Okazaki in a fashion magazine. She was a great source of inspiration for Akane who after reading her manga felt that she liberated women.

In 2004 Torikai debuted as a mangaka, although it was not until 2010 that she published her first serialized manga, Ohayou Okaeri, in seinen Morning Two magazine. During that time, what she devoted himself to the most was writing and drawing short stories.

In 2018 Akane publishes an essay/diary, where for 3 months she tells us what her life is like. It mainly deals with the dilemmas of being a woman in Japan who is dedicated to manga and the difficulties of raising her child from her previous marriage together with her new husband. This character is never named, but that same year the famous mangaka Inio Asano announced that he had married Akane Torikai. In the summer of 2022 they announced their divorce

Since she left Osaka the mangaka has moved more than 10 times and according to Torikai looking for a house is like finding a good lover (difficult I guess). The first time she moved was when Torikai started university studies, although when she graduated she returned home. But when Akane came back, her grandfather was there and he didn't make her feel very comfortable, so she quickly decided to move to the outskirts of Tokyo and that would be where she would start her career as a mangaka.

Many of the furniture and designs in her houses are hers, since her father was a furniture craftsman and inherited that hobby from him. She built a table for one of her many homes and she likes to restore and bring old and forgotten furniture to life.

Bathroom design by her, although she no longer lives there.

NIGHT ROUTINE

♡ 19:00 - this hour is dedicated to her three pets, her dog Moog-kun, her turtle and Asano's cat, Guru-chan.

♡ 20:00 - Search for inspiration/motivation to draw such as playing the piano, social media or spending more time with her three little angels.

♡ 24:00 - draw with the iPad. Some of her drawings are published in cultural magazines like Weekly SPA!

♡ 1:00 - skincare routine

♡ 2:30 - a little late, but it's her dinner time. She loves Korean ramen and it's almost always her dinner.

♡ 3:00 - Bedtime

Although in her beginnings in the manga Akane sought validation mainly from men, since the manga market was full of them and both their words and their "culture" were used. Torikai gradually realized and wanted to destroy those "standards" to be able to dedicate himself only to women (although any, more or less adult person, can read her mangas) and without being afraid of what they will say, criticism or not being popular. In her realistic mangas, she wants to capture the fears and insecurities, especially of girls/women, so that they don't feel alone and she can help them, as with topics like sex and rape, a fairly taboo subject. Akane never hesitates when it comes to speaking in her interviews and in one of them she highlighted that she is desperate to make the effort to understand those who are against feminism.

♡ SENSEI NO SHIROI USO 2013-2017

- Genre: drama

- demographic: seinen

- french edition english spanish

The protagonist, Misuzu Hara, is a 24-year-old teacher. She lived a traumatic experience 4 years before, she was raped by the current fiancé of her best friend and she has convinced herself that this happened to her because of being a woman. Hara, despite her students' contempt for her, only wants to help them in the complicated stage that is adolescence, and all this while she lives with her trauma and her life does not stop reeling.

Sensei no Shiroi Uso deals with issues such as sexist violence, social inequality, misogyny, and how it destroys women and men, or the silence after a horrible act due to being afraid and not knowing what the best option is.

The manga is full of scenes and feelings that unfortunately many women will understand.

In 2018 it was nominated for the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Award.

♡ SATURN RETURN 2019-

- genre: drama psicológico

- demographic: seinen

French Italian

Ritsuko Kaji, in addition to the protagonist, is a housewife and writer. The first novel Kaji published was a success and she was treated like a genius, but now the protagonist is going through a block and she is not able to write a single sentence. To this is added the pressure of her husband so that she has her child and her monotonous life. One day in a dream, Kaji's childhood friend, Aoi, appears to her and asks her a question that leaves the protagonist thinking "your life... is that really it?". The next day she receives the news that her friend has committed suicide. Together with her colleague, she decides to go investigate what happened.

In Saturn Return depression is a very recurring theme and is treated as it should be, normalizing it, but without romanticizing it. It is also a criticism of the social pressure that women have, especially in Japan, to abandon their work to dedicate themselves to the house and the children.

All her works are full of personal experiences.

♡ MANDARIN GYPSY CAT NO ROUJOU 2017-2018

- genre: drama, sci-fi

- demographic: josei

- french

The story takes place somewhere in Asia in a somewhat dystopian future. This place is a matriarchal dictatorship where there are no wars and people live in peace, but there are two problems: the shortage of men and the large number of sterile people. This means that those people who are fertile are exploited for reproductive purposes, so many end up escaping to a kind of suburbs, that's where Sanada, the protagonist, resides. This girl keeps a secret that can cause many changes in people.

Mandarin Gypsy Cat no Roujou is a manga that is far from what Akane is used to doing and even so the result is sublime. It's full of strong, interesting and endearing female characters just looking for a place in a horrible world.

♡ OTHER MANGAS

— SANS PRÉAMBULE (ZENRYAKU, ZENSHIN NO KIMI) 2022

- genre: slice of life

- demographic: seinen

- french

It is a compilation manga of short stories, but all of them have something in common. They are all teenage girls in high school questioning life, the future, work, love, etc... in short, having existential crises.

The manga is entirely in pencil, without inking, except for the last chapter.

— YOU' VE GOTTA LOVE SONG 2015

- genre: slice of life

- demographic: josei

- french

Another compilation manga, but this time the stories are not connected. A housewife tired of her life or a runaway teenage girl, are some of the 4 protagonists of this manga. The only thing these women have in common is their existentialist/philosophical questions about life.

Akane Torikai deserves much more recognition.

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Teacher's White Lie | Sensei no Shiroi Uso – Chapter 24 ○ What Even is Happiness (2)

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I never thought I would have a manga by Torikai Akane in my life. The thing is I am a Spaniard, Spanish & English bilingual... I “can” speak French, but I’ve forgotten nearly everything I learnt back in high school and at the school of languages (I could only do a year and a half). For Torikai sensei I am willing to make an effort. She is that good, trust me.