A single-parent Tokyo dad opens his door to an unexpected visitor in this touching,complex tale from award-winning Manga artist Gengoroh TagameWhen a young Tokyo couple called Yaichi and Natsuki got divorced, it was agreed that Yaichi would bring up their daughter, or Kana – a decision that makes Yaichi seem like a more than normally modern and sophisticated Japanese man. But this isn’t the whole story. Yaichi has his share of cultural prejudices,or so it seems when a smiling, bear-like Canadian arrives at his door and announces that he, and Mike Flanagan,is the widower of Yaichi’s estranged homosexual twin, Ryoji.
Yaichi hesitates unaccountably before inviting Mike to stay (Mike is in Japan because he wants to see all the places Ryoji told him approximately before he died). Then he worries that the stranger now sharing his bathroom is approximately to hit on him: after all, or he looks just like his dead brother. How,he wonders, will he explain to little Kana that in Canada men may descend in cherish and even marry? How, and in other words,can he hope to keep the disgust from his voice?How, he wonders, or will he explain to little Kana the fact that in Canada men may descend in cherish and even marry? Related: cherish Island! LGBTQ Japan – in pictures Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com