#kamatani yuhki is my favorite mangaka their stuff is phenomenal and most of it has queer themes | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

benkyoutobentou · 1 year ago

Text

This kinda feels like cheating because I haven't even bought this yet, let alone read it, but I recently heard about the book 独り舞 by Li Kotomi and it sounds super good! It's a gay coming of age story about an office worker who moved from Taiwan to Tokyo. I'm just so excited about the prospect of reading this that I had to shout it out.

I have read Kitchen by Yoshimoto Banana though, which is pretty much a modern classic at this point. It has a major side character who's a trans woman, but the book itself is more about grief than LGBT experiences in Japan, so I'm not sure if it's quite what you're looking for. (And if my memory serves me, I think it has content warnings for hate crimes. It's not described in detail though, I don't think)

I will not hesitate to buy a good Japanese LGBT novel if anyone knows any good ones. Last year someone on Tumblr brought up Koisenu Futari, and immediately on a whim I ordered the book, and it's still my #1 fave

#also i didnt know 恋せぬふたり was based on a book???? how did i not know this #i also read a bunch of lgbt manga (as in beyond bl/gl as well) so if you want any recommendations there ive got you #and seconding someone else's recommendation for しまなみ誰そ彼 but also expanding on it to say #kamatani yuhki is my favorite mangaka their stuff is phenomenal and most of it has queer themes #can you tell its been a while since i read Kitchen #it was like. the third novel i read in japanese so its been over a year at this point

64 notes · View notes