Author(s): Gengoroh Tagame

Graphic Novels / Manga | Identity - LGBTQIA+ / Queer | Family | Sexual Identity | Identity - Gay

A beautifully written graphic novel about family, the clash between Japanese and Western culture and accepting people for who they are.

Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself the widower of Yaichi's estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji's past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in.

What follows is an unprecedented and heartbreaking look at the state of a largely still-closeted Japanese gay culture: how it's been affected by the West, and how the next generation can change the preconceptions about it and prejudices against it.