I’m very much enjoying the wider variety of manga that’s being translated now, especially the autobiographical and LGBT+ books. These two volumes are a combination of both and I enjoyed them for different reasons. I Want to be a Wall is about an asexual woman and a gay man getting married, seemingly due to societal or family pressures. No one knows that their marriage isn’t straight but them, and the book follows them settling into married life and getting to know each other more. Their […]
Two Different Viewpoints on Queer Life in Japan
I Want to be a Wall (Vol.1) by Honami Shirono
X-Gender (Vol.1) by Asuka Miyazaki