Author: Yuri Takayoshi
Publisher: TORICO
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
108 Complex This is a job not suited for love! Chishin is a monk trainer who had left his worldly desire the moment he was ostracized for being a gay. After long years of strict life, a new rebellious trainee, Keiju Fujisawa, appeared and made Chishin days more colorful. Little by little Chishin got reminded to his past self. One day, Keiju gave him a sudden kiss! Chishin knows Keiju's charm is irresistible, but can he allow himself to submit to the desire he had left years ago…? This volume includes: I Can Only Do It in the Bathroom An ordinary salaryman Sasaki had a weird fetish he could not tell anyone. He could only get off inside the bathroom! But his lonely life started changing when Kuroki, a part-time janitor in his office exposed his secret activity! Instead of telling everyone, Kuroki voluntarily helps Sasaki relieve his sexual tension in the bathroom! What is his real motive?
108 Complex (Yaoi / BL Manga)
Author: Yuri Takayoshi
Publisher: TORICO
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
108 Complex This is a job not suited for love! Chishin is a monk trainer who had left his worldly desire the moment he was ostracized for being a gay. After long years of strict life, a new rebellious trainee, Keiju Fujisawa, appeared and made Chishin days more colorful. Little by little Chishin got reminded to his past self. One day, Keiju gave him a sudden kiss! Chishin knows Keiju's charm is irresistible, but can he allow himself to submit to the desire he had left years ago…? This volume includes: I Can Only Do It in the Bathroom An ordinary salaryman Sasaki had a weird fetish he could not tell anyone. He could only get off inside the bathroom! But his lonely life started changing when Kuroki, a part-time janitor in his office exposed his secret activity! Instead of telling everyone, Kuroki voluntarily helps Sasaki relieve his sexual tension in the bathroom! What is his real motive?
Publisher: TORICO
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
108 Complex This is a job not suited for love! Chishin is a monk trainer who had left his worldly desire the moment he was ostracized for being a gay. After long years of strict life, a new rebellious trainee, Keiju Fujisawa, appeared and made Chishin days more colorful. Little by little Chishin got reminded to his past self. One day, Keiju gave him a sudden kiss! Chishin knows Keiju's charm is irresistible, but can he allow himself to submit to the desire he had left years ago…? This volume includes: I Can Only Do It in the Bathroom An ordinary salaryman Sasaki had a weird fetish he could not tell anyone. He could only get off inside the bathroom! But his lonely life started changing when Kuroki, a part-time janitor in his office exposed his secret activity! Instead of telling everyone, Kuroki voluntarily helps Sasaki relieve his sexual tension in the bathroom! What is his real motive?
Boys Love Manga and Beyond
Author: Mark McLelland
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1626743096
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the “beautiful boy” has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of cultural visibility today across a range of genres from pop music to animation. In recent decades, “Boys Love” (or simply BL) has emerged as a mainstream genre in manga, anime, and games for girls and young women. This genre was first developed in Japan in the early 1970s by a group of female artists who went on to establish themselves as major figures in Japan's manga industry. By the late 1970s many amateur women fans were getting involved in the BL phenomenon by creating and self-publishing homoerotic parodies of established male manga characters and popular media figures. The popularity of these fan-made products, sold and circulated at huge conventions, has led to an increase in the number of commercial titles available. Today, a wide range of products produced both by professionals and amateurs are brought together under the general rubric of “boys love,” and are rapidly gaining an audience throughout Asia and globally. This collection provides the first comprehensive overview in English of the BL phenomenon in Japan, its history and various subgenres and introduces translations of some key Japanese scholarship not otherwise available. Some chapters detail the historical and cultural contexts that helped BL emerge as a significant part of girls' culture in Japan. Others offer important case studies of BL production, consumption, and circulation and explain why BL has become a controversial topic in contemporary Japan.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1626743096
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the “beautiful boy” has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of cultural visibility today across a range of genres from pop music to animation. In recent decades, “Boys Love” (or simply BL) has emerged as a mainstream genre in manga, anime, and games for girls and young women. This genre was first developed in Japan in the early 1970s by a group of female artists who went on to establish themselves as major figures in Japan's manga industry. By the late 1970s many amateur women fans were getting involved in the BL phenomenon by creating and self-publishing homoerotic parodies of established male manga characters and popular media figures. The popularity of these fan-made products, sold and circulated at huge conventions, has led to an increase in the number of commercial titles available. Today, a wide range of products produced both by professionals and amateurs are brought together under the general rubric of “boys love,” and are rapidly gaining an audience throughout Asia and globally. This collection provides the first comprehensive overview in English of the BL phenomenon in Japan, its history and various subgenres and introduces translations of some key Japanese scholarship not otherwise available. Some chapters detail the historical and cultural contexts that helped BL emerge as a significant part of girls' culture in Japan. Others offer important case studies of BL production, consumption, and circulation and explain why BL has become a controversial topic in contemporary Japan.
Fandom Unbound
Author: Mizuko Ito
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300158645
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan's major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan's identity at home and abroad. In the American context, the word otaku is best translated as “geek'—an ardent fan with highly specialized knowledge and interests. But it is associated especially with fans of specific Japan-based cultural genres, including anime, manga, and video games. Most important of all, as this collection shows, is the way otaku culture represents a newly participatory fan culture in which fans not only organize around niche interests but produce and distribute their own media content. In this collection of essays, Japanese and American scholars offer richly detailed descriptions of how this once stigmatized Japanese youth culture created its own alternative markets and cultural products such as fan fiction, comics, costumes, and remixes, becoming a major international force that can challenge the dominance of commercial media. By exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives, this groundbreaking collection provides fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300158645
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan's major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan's identity at home and abroad. In the American context, the word otaku is best translated as “geek'—an ardent fan with highly specialized knowledge and interests. But it is associated especially with fans of specific Japan-based cultural genres, including anime, manga, and video games. Most important of all, as this collection shows, is the way otaku culture represents a newly participatory fan culture in which fans not only organize around niche interests but produce and distribute their own media content. In this collection of essays, Japanese and American scholars offer richly detailed descriptions of how this once stigmatized Japanese youth culture created its own alternative markets and cultural products such as fan fiction, comics, costumes, and remixes, becoming a major international force that can challenge the dominance of commercial media. By exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives, this groundbreaking collection provides fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age.
Anti Platonic(Yaoi Manga)
Author: Yupopo Orishima
Publisher: MediBang(global)
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Ryouya is a total party animal with fuck buddies. Living with Ryouya is Io, a cold and cool type of guy who doesn't show his emotions much, but physically he's the 'perfect fit' with Ryouya. Io doesn't normally feel much in the way of affection, but whenever he smells Ryouya's musk he just goes crazy for it. But Io's never said a word of his true feelings, not even once...
Publisher: MediBang(global)
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Ryouya is a total party animal with fuck buddies. Living with Ryouya is Io, a cold and cool type of guy who doesn't show his emotions much, but physically he's the 'perfect fit' with Ryouya. Io doesn't normally feel much in the way of affection, but whenever he smells Ryouya's musk he just goes crazy for it. But Io's never said a word of his true feelings, not even once...
Blindsight
Author: Peter Watts
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429955198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429955198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Not Fated (Yaoi Manga)
Author: Yoshi Akimoto
Publisher: MediBang(global)
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
"Even if it's hopeless, I'm not gonna give up! No matter how many times I get rejected or how much I get hurt, I won't stop feeling this way!"So says the bright and optimistic university student, Shizuku Suguya, about the man that got him out of a spat of trouble: Masataka Kizaki. Shizuku feels it's fate. He tests the waters at the production company that Masataka manages but is turned away without even being able to speak to him.Determined to make it happen, Shizuku then attemps to stand in for a model in a commercial who is taking a day off from illness... A story between a handsome company president with a traumatic past and a stubbornly-driven newcomer model.
Publisher: MediBang(global)
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
"Even if it's hopeless, I'm not gonna give up! No matter how many times I get rejected or how much I get hurt, I won't stop feeling this way!"So says the bright and optimistic university student, Shizuku Suguya, about the man that got him out of a spat of trouble: Masataka Kizaki. Shizuku feels it's fate. He tests the waters at the production company that Masataka manages but is turned away without even being able to speak to him.Determined to make it happen, Shizuku then attemps to stand in for a model in a commercial who is taking a day off from illness... A story between a handsome company president with a traumatic past and a stubbornly-driven newcomer model.
Possessed By A Ghost (Yaoi Manga)
Author: Una Donburi
Publisher: MediBang(global)
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Gyou Ryouta is a 18-year old university student. All he wanted was a normal school life and eventually get a cute girlfriend who will wear a frilly apron when he returns home. But this is a BL, and that's never the case. Instead, his apartment is haunted by a young delinquent ghost named Taiga Yamakawa who, for his own reasons, is there to stay. Ryouta usually hates the bully type but why does Taiga seem... cute? He cooks, cleans, and looks after him. Maybe living with a ghost is not so bad ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Publisher: MediBang(global)
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Gyou Ryouta is a 18-year old university student. All he wanted was a normal school life and eventually get a cute girlfriend who will wear a frilly apron when he returns home. But this is a BL, and that's never the case. Instead, his apartment is haunted by a young delinquent ghost named Taiga Yamakawa who, for his own reasons, is there to stay. Ryouta usually hates the bully type but why does Taiga seem... cute? He cooks, cleans, and looks after him. Maybe living with a ghost is not so bad ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Cheat(er) Code
Author: S.A. Foxe
Publisher: Limerence Press
ISBN: 9781620107805
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
An erotic graphic novel that pushes all the right buttons, Cheat(er) Code is a hilarious, sexy, and surprisingly tender story about navigating heartbreak and rediscovering your own confidence. Kennedy and his boyfriend Seth have been together six years, and honestly, it's pretty comfortable. That is, until the couple gets into a huge, potentially relationship-changing fight. Kennedy turns to his trusty video games to distract himself, but when a random power surge hits, he's transported inside his video game library. Dazed and incredulous about his digital predicament, Ken finds himself seduced by a silver daddy, rutting with a couple of barbarians from an epic fantasy, and sorting through a lot of confusing feelings about his favorite anthropomorphic cheetah character. Kennedy will need to confront his biggest fears to get back to reality before the game glitches him out of existence, but sometimes, the unexpected (and unexpectedly sexy) is just what you need to hit the reset button. "Hilarious and heartwarming, it's an absolute must for your favorite gaymer and an incredible read for anyone who's ever console-d themselves through a heartbreak.” —Tini Howard
Publisher: Limerence Press
ISBN: 9781620107805
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
An erotic graphic novel that pushes all the right buttons, Cheat(er) Code is a hilarious, sexy, and surprisingly tender story about navigating heartbreak and rediscovering your own confidence. Kennedy and his boyfriend Seth have been together six years, and honestly, it's pretty comfortable. That is, until the couple gets into a huge, potentially relationship-changing fight. Kennedy turns to his trusty video games to distract himself, but when a random power surge hits, he's transported inside his video game library. Dazed and incredulous about his digital predicament, Ken finds himself seduced by a silver daddy, rutting with a couple of barbarians from an epic fantasy, and sorting through a lot of confusing feelings about his favorite anthropomorphic cheetah character. Kennedy will need to confront his biggest fears to get back to reality before the game glitches him out of existence, but sometimes, the unexpected (and unexpectedly sexy) is just what you need to hit the reset button. "Hilarious and heartwarming, it's an absolute must for your favorite gaymer and an incredible read for anyone who's ever console-d themselves through a heartbreak.” —Tini Howard
Don't Be Cruel: Akira Takanashi's Story (Yaoi Manga)
Author: Yonezou Nekota
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1421594781
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Polite and proper college student Akira Takanashi has a secret. Back in high school, he fell deeply in love with his teacher but was spurned. Now, whenever the pain of his heartbreak gets to be too much, he finds comfort in the arms of med student and notorious playboy Shimakawa—very adult comfort. Shimakawa would gladly go out with him, but Akira’s past heartbreak means he insists on keeping things strictly physical—well, until his obsessed younger brother Jutta arrives to disrupt this comfortable routine! -- VIZ Media
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1421594781
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Polite and proper college student Akira Takanashi has a secret. Back in high school, he fell deeply in love with his teacher but was spurned. Now, whenever the pain of his heartbreak gets to be too much, he finds comfort in the arms of med student and notorious playboy Shimakawa—very adult comfort. Shimakawa would gladly go out with him, but Akira’s past heartbreak means he insists on keeping things strictly physical—well, until his obsessed younger brother Jutta arrives to disrupt this comfortable routine! -- VIZ Media
Melting Lover
Author: Bukuro Yamada
Publisher: DENPA, LLC
ISBN: 1634421736
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A bond of love is a beautiful thing, but what happens when outside pressures force it into forms both strange and strained. A lovesick youth encounters a mysterious shapeshifter with the ability to take on the appearance of his beloved. A hitman forswears pleasure, but cannot shake the fun-loving angel determined to follow him on his assignments. Two circus performers keep explosive secrets from one another while sharing the trapeze. And an android finds himself malfunctioning under the gaze of his pet human. Melting Lover explores the shadowy territories of love through Bukuro Yamada’s sweet art and gentle literary touch.
Publisher: DENPA, LLC
ISBN: 1634421736
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A bond of love is a beautiful thing, but what happens when outside pressures force it into forms both strange and strained. A lovesick youth encounters a mysterious shapeshifter with the ability to take on the appearance of his beloved. A hitman forswears pleasure, but cannot shake the fun-loving angel determined to follow him on his assignments. Two circus performers keep explosive secrets from one another while sharing the trapeze. And an android finds himself malfunctioning under the gaze of his pet human. Melting Lover explores the shadowy territories of love through Bukuro Yamada’s sweet art and gentle literary touch.