Massive gay japanese manga

By Anne Ishii (Editor), Graham Kolbeins (Editor), Chip Kidd (Cover design or artwork by)

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This is a groundbreaking manga anthology by and about gay men, put together by an award-winning team.


Big, burly, lascivious, and soft around the edges: welcome to the hypermasculine world of Japanese gay manga. Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make Itis the first English-language anthology of its kind: an in-depth introduction to nine of the most exciting comic artists making function for a gay male audience in Japan. Jiraiya, Seizoh Ebisubashi, and Kazuhide Ichikawa are three of the irresistibly seductive, internationally renowned artists featured here, as well as Gengoroh Tagame, the subject of The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: Master of Queer Erotic Manga. Get to grasp each of these artists intimately, through candid interviews, photography, context-providing essays, illustrations, and manga. Massivealso includes the groundbreaking, titillating operate of gay manga luminaries Takeshi Matsu, Fumi Miyabi, Inu Yoshi,

Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Produce It

December 23,

Being homosexual, finding this collection at my local library instantly piqued my interest. Yes, it's racier than the content I typically study, but I'm more versed in BL manga, which is primarily written by straight women for unbent women. This manga I'm more familiar with does have a gay audience, but because of the cultural framing surrounding homosexuality in Japan, a lot of interactions in BL and even in the gay manga here revolve around an explicit lack of consent. Homosexuality is still frowned upon in Japan, viewed as forbidden and dirty. But the men of stories still want to do it and express themselves that way. It usually involves a seme forcing himself on an uke in BL, the result a scene more akin to assault than sex. But bashing that isn't going to do much; that would be ethnocentric and disregard the fact that for BL narratives, women are writing them to escape the patriarchal labels forced upon them by men. In my brain, as long as these gay stories are handled well by women, I will respect them whether in

Massive: Gay Japanese Manga And The Men Who Make It by Anne Ishii

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PDF]~ Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It Anne Ishii


Big, burly, lascivious, and soft

around the edges: welcome to

the hypermasculine earth of

Japanese gay manga. Massive:

Gay Erotic Manga and the Men

Who Make It is the first

English-language anthology of

its kind: an in-depth

introduction to nine of the

most stimulating comic artists

making work for a gay male

audience in Japan. Jiraiya,

Seizoh Ebisubashi, and

Kazuhide Ichikawa are three of

the irresistibly seductive,

internationally renowned

artists featured in Massive, as

well as Gengoroh Tagame, the

subject of The Passion of

Gengoroh Tagame: Master of

Gay Erotic Manga. Get to know

each of these artists intimately,

through candid interviews,

photography, context-providing

essays, illustrations, and

manga. Massive also includes

the groundbreaking, titillating

work of gay manga luminaries

Takeshi Matsu, Fumi Miyabi,

Inu Yoshi, Gai Mizuki, and

comic essayist Kumada

Poohsuke.


PDF]~ Massive: Male lover Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It

Anne Ishii

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