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Yoshinaga Fumi: Tsuki to sandal
Seven short stories in an omnibus, about a high school teacher, a student who is in love with him, and the people surrounding.
Yoshinaga is a talented manga-ka. There is no denying that. She is very good at composing fatisfying plots and stories, even with very few pages, and unlike Nasu her smutty scenes are hot and tasteful. Any woman's wetdream, I suppose.
So there ought not be anything for me to dislike about this book, really. Just ... there is. I don't know why it is, but on one hand when yaoi writers pretend that being gay is something universally accepted I feel like smashing my head against a wall, but when they -- as with Yoshinaga -- attempt to deal with "gay issues" and mention stuff like "nichôme"*, I get really squirmish (and not in the good way). I mean, we're all adults here. We are grown women writing and reading gay porn because we get off on it. That has absolutely nothing to do with real gay men and certainly not with gay politics, you know? It's a fine line to walk.
But anyway, aside that this is a good piece of manga and recommended to anyone.
* Shinjuku Ni-chôme. Gay district of Tokyo.
Category: BL manga | Posted by Alicia at October 1, 2004 11:54 AM