From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 30 09:19:39 2024
Hi readers and typists,
Xgender manga is not online, but you can learn a lot about
it online. Author is Asuka Miyazaki. But I got what I read
at the SF City Library. Preferred pronouns are they/their.
Since starting this one, decided I had seen the author's
work before and that I had in fact read Volume one.
In Volume 1 they talk and illustrated with their
work how she lives and enjoys life.
In Volume 2 they must confront the challenge of
life under Covid-19 restrictions. !st they vents about her
pain and loneliness of their work as a mangaka. They seem
to be quite introverted but still with a need to interact
with her small group of friends. Because of the lack of
material every aspect of her life is up for expression
through their art.
I think this is interesting but then i enjoy reading
about the lives of the creators of the art. It may be comics
but this is not kid stuff - their unhappy life in school mocked
for her buckteeth which she spent a lot of money to change.
They want to be a man and feels that her female
genitalia are ugly and out of place. They feel that mentally
and emotionally she alternates between male and female
personalities. Not as identities but in their motivations and
activities. They like to enjoy porn featuring women she finds
attractive but has no interest in involvement with real women.
They are their mother's child whom Mother loves for
whom she lives. They considers suicide but puts it off until
their aged mother, passes.
How good is this story? I would buy it to join other
stories like "A Drifting Life" about a mangaka as the field
develops after WW II by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. I would say it is
better than that long biography of Osamu Tezuka who did not
seem to do anything but work on manga though he went to
Medical School. It comes up close to "Showa A history" by
Shigeru Mizuki in revealing mental and emotional details.
But Mizuki had a lot more material to cover in the long
reign of Hirohito (Showa was the era name and the after
death name given to Hirohito).
bliss
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