Contents.Career Tagame was born on February 3, 1964 into a family descended from. He studied at, and after graduating in 1982, worked as a commercial. On a trip to Europe, Tagame discovered the American magazine. The magazine, which featured drawings by, would make strong impression on Tagame's art. He began publishing erotica under the Gengoroh Tagame in 1986, and since 1994 he has lived off the profits of his art and writings.
The work of legendary gay erotic artist Gengoroh Tagame (田亀源五郎. 1964-) has been notoriously hard to track down outside of Japan. That this master’s work should languish in obscurity felt like an injustice, and it was part of the reason that Anne Ishii, Chip Kidd and I decided to put together Tagame’s first English-language collection of comics, The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame.
Tagame's works have been published in several Japanese gay magazines, including Sabu, and SM-Z.His works contain 'virile males, or youths, and their apprenticeship of physical and mental submission'. Notable works include Jujitsu Kyoshi at B Product; Emono, Shirogane no Hana (3 vol.) and Pride (3 vol.) at G-Project. Pride focuses on a masculine who is discovered by his even more masculine professor to harbor masochistic tendencies, and trains him to be submissive through harsh domination. Naburi mono, ('Laughing stock') serialised in G-Men in 1994, is about a yakuza strongman who falls in love with a wrestler he has been ordered to kidnap, ending with their ritualistic suicide together.Tagame is additionally noted as an art historian and archivist of gay Japanese erotica, and has edited a two volume series about the history of gay erotic art in Japan from the 1950s to the present, 日本のゲイ・エロティック・アート ( Nihon no gei, erotikku āto, Gay Erotic Art in Japan).In the mid-2010s, Tagame began creating all-ages manga in addition to his erotic works. His first all-ages work was Otouto no Otto ( 弟の夫, ), serialized in 's Monthly Action magazine in Japan and published in English.
The series received universal acclaim, and has been awarded excellence awards at the 19th in 2015, and the in 2018. In March 2018, Monthly Action began serialization of Bokura No Shikisai ( 僕らの色彩, Our Colors), Tagame's second all-ages manga. Influence Tagame has been called the most influential creator of gay manga in Japan to date, and 'the most talented and most famous author of sado-masochistic gay manga'.
His depiction of men as muscular and hairy has been cited as a catalyst for a shift in fashion amongst gay men in 1995, away from the clean-shaven and slender stereotypes and towards a tendency for masculinity and chubbiness. Tagame's work has been criticised by gay manga writer Susumu Hirosegawa as 'SM gekijō' (S&M theater) for its violence and lack of complex storylines. Translations His manga Gunji (軍次) was translated into in 2005, followed by Arena in 2006 and Goku in 2009. An artbook of his works has also been published in France. An exhibition of his works was held in France in May 2009.A small amount of Tagame's work has been published in English; a short story, 'Standing Ovations', was included in the third issue of the erotic comics anthology Thickness, and in July 2012, announced a short story collection, The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame, for 2013 release. The latter was the author's first North American and English-language collection and the first completely bara work published in English in a print format.
The book collects short works spanning 15 years of Tagame's career, including a new story commissioned for the book by book designer. Endless Games was published in 2013 in an English translation by the German publisher the. Gunji, Fisherman's Lodge (both 2014) and The Contracts of the Fall (2015) were published in English by the same publisher.His work has also been featured in (2014), 'the first English-language overview of gay manga as a genre' according to, who edited the graphic novel from along with Anne Ishii.References.
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.About this Item: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2018. Condition: New. Language: English.
Brand new Book. One of 's Top 10 Graphic Novels of the year'My Brother's Husband arrives in the UK garlanded with praise from, among others, Alison Bechdel. It's not hard to see why. Not only is it very touching; it's also, for the non-Japanese reader, unexpectedly fascinating' Rachel Cooke, Observer, Graphic Novel of the Month'When a cuddly Canadian comes to call, Yaichi - a single Japanese dad - is forced to confront his painful past. With his young daughter Kana leading the way, he gradually rethinks his assumptions about what makes a family. Renowned manga artist Gengoroh Tagame turns his stunning draftsmanship to a story very different from his customary fare, to delightful and heartwarming effect' Alison Bechdel, author of Fun HomeYaichi 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. Seller Inventory # HUK574 8. From United Kingdom to U.S.A.About this Item: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2018. Condition: New.
Language: English. Brand new Book.
One of 's Top 10 Graphic Novels of the year'My Brother's Husband arrives in the UK garlanded with praise from, among others, Alison Bechdel. It's not hard to see why.
Not only is it very touching; it's also, for the non-Japanese reader, unexpectedly fascinating' Rachel Cooke, Observer, Graphic Novel of the Month'When a cuddly Canadian comes to call, Yaichi - a single Japanese dad - is forced to confront his painful past. With his young daughter Kana leading the way, he gradually rethinks his assumptions about what makes a family. Renowned manga artist Gengoroh Tagame turns his stunning draftsmanship to a story very different from his customary fare, to delightful and heartwarming effect' Alison Bechdel, author of Fun HomeYaichi 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.
Seller Inventory # HUK574 9. From United Kingdom to U.S.A.About this Item: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2018.
Condition: New. Language: English.
Brand new Book. One of 's Top 10 Graphic Novels of the year'My Brother's Husband arrives in the UK garlanded with praise from, among others, Alison Bechdel. It's not hard to see why. Not only is it very touching; it's also, for the non-Japanese reader, unexpectedly fascinating' Rachel Cooke, Observer, Graphic Novel of the Month'When a cuddly Canadian comes to call, Yaichi - a single Japanese dad - is forced to confront his painful past. With his young daughter Kana leading the way, he gradually rethinks his assumptions about what makes a family. Renowned manga artist Gengoroh Tagame turns his stunning draftsmanship to a story very different from his customary fare, to delightful and heartwarming effect' Alison Bechdel, author of Fun HomeYaichi 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. Seller Inventory # HUK574 12. From United Kingdom to U.S.A.About this Item: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2018. Condition: New. Language: English.
Brand new Book. The concluding volume in the story of Yaichi, his daughter Kana, and how their meeting Mike Flanagan - Yaichi's brother-in-law - changes their lives and their perceptions of acceptance of homosexuality in their contemporary Japanese culture.As Mike continues his journey of discovery concerning Ryoji's past, Yaichi gradually comes to understand that being gay is just another way of being human. And that, in many ways, remains a radical concept in Japan even today.
In the meantime, the bond between Mike and young Kana grows ever stronger, and yet he is going to have to return to Canada soon - a fact that fills them both with impending heartbreak. But not before more than a few revelations come to light. Seller Inventory # HUK666 13.
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.About this Item: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2018. Condition: New. Language: English. Brand new Book.
The concluding volume in the story of Yaichi, his daughter Kana, and how their meeting Mike Flanagan - Yaichi's brother-in-law - changes their lives and their perceptions of acceptance of homosexuality in their contemporary Japanese culture.As Mike continues his journey of discovery concerning Ryoji's past, Yaichi gradually comes to understand that being gay is just another way of being human. And that, in many ways, remains a radical concept in Japan even today. In the meantime, the bond between Mike and young Kana grows ever stronger, and yet he is going to have to return to Canada soon - a fact that fills them both with impending heartbreak. But not before more than a few revelations come to light. Seller Inventory # HUK666 14.