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Disability Manga Recommendations

We’re living in a world where disabled characters and disabled celebrities are getting more and more notice. Before, a list of disabled manga would be just one or two books with a side character who wasn’t a complete wet blanket. Now though, we have way more options. There’s lots of different types of story being told. From epic post-apocalypse adventures, to sweet teenage romance.

I’ve taken a broad approach to the term “Disabled” here. I’m not following any particular model. Just that, if there is something happening with your body that is preventing you from fully interacting within the society and environment you live in, then that’s a disability. I’ve also included some stories about temporary disabilities, the sort of things that impact your health and well being but are unlikely to be long term issues.

The stories are broken up into the different types of disability, rather than genre. Although it is interesting to see the similarities in types of story telling for different disabilities. Each entry includes genre breakdown, credits, and content warnings.

I have lazily used the official summaries, please forgive me for the lack of originality. However, I have provided a link to anything I’ve written about those series, if you want to hear my full thoughts and opinions!

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The Law, The Witch, and The Wheelchair: Applying the Social Model of Disability to Witch Hat Atelier

Content Warning: This article contains discussion of ableism and disability discrimination This article contains Spoilers for Witch Hat Atelier (up to Volume 13) Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama has been widely praised for its representation of disabled and chronically ill people, including a group that the fantasy genre often leaves out or treats with cliches. Disability is highly visible…

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My Anime Herald Debut! It was a pleasure to work on this one, and I'd like to extend my immense gratitude to Alex for their fantastic editing on this piece that made it what it is!

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Cripple Punk Motifs in Tank Chair

Disability representation in pop culture is far and few between, so whenever we have any, it needs to be celebrated and scrutinized in equal measure. Disabled audiences have unfortunately become familiar with a collection of tired and harmful tropes, one of which is serving as “Inspiration Porn.” Series like A Perfect World center being disabled as nothing but constant misery, with their disabled characters only there to make those around them realize how much easier their own life is in comparison. People are so used to this fictional “inspirational” disabled person that as soon as an actual disabled person refuses to push themselves beyond their limits, they’re seen as a failure.

As a result, in 2014 a new movement began to challenge this: “Cripple Punk.” This counter culture movement seeks to show that disabled people can be rude, angry, messy, and not the perfect, suffering angels everyone wants to see us as. Whilst the movement has gained a lot of traction in online circles, its concepts aren’t present in a lot of popular media. For a long time, the only mainstream manga title with elements of this ethos was Full Metal Alchemist. But that’s no longer the case. There’s a new Cripple Punk manga on the scene about a disabled teen and his sibling taking on a fascist regime: Tank Chair by Manabu Yashiro.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

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AJ reviews the first volume of the new edition of the millennial classic, D.N.Angel. Now complete, and with an all new translation.

After sixteen long, long years, the most complicated love quadrangle in shojo is back!

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AJ recommends Isekai that are actually worth reading to prove that the genre isn’t dead.

#anime #manga #anime recomendations #manga recomendations #isekai #yatta tachi

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AJ reviews Flash Point by Imai Arata, an indie manga set around the assassination of Shinzo Abe.

Imai is off work and unemployed following a herniated disc. He lives a quiet life, keeping care of his health and home whilst his wife is at work. One day, his seventeen-year-old sister-in-law, Mashiro, shows up, wishing to skip school and hang out. She’s there the next day, and the next, and the next, and so on. Soon, they’re spending the whole summer together, playing video games and recording videos for her growing Instagram following. Then on a day out, they pass by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe giving a speech. However, what was just a photobomb for the views quickly spirals into something else when moments later, Shinzo Abe is shot. How will a conspiracy theory-minded, social media-obsessed world react to such an event?

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AJ reviews Star Crossed, the courtly Original English Language Boy Love Manga set amongst the stars.

Polaris is the king of the stars, and in constant battle with his older brother for the throne. By his side is his ever loyal knight, Yildun. The pair are desperately in love, but Yildun’s loyalty to the kingdom prevents him from taking what is freely given. How could their love ever hope to overcome their vast status difference? Polaris deserves to be with another noble, someone who can stand by his side in front of the whole kingdom! But Polaris only wants Yildun, and will wait as long as it takes for him to realise that. It’s true what they say: the course of true love never did run smooth, especially for such star-crossed lovers.

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AJ reviews I Wanna Be Your Girl, Ink Pop and Puffin’s debut manga about queer teens

Hime and Akira have been best friends since they were little. Now, they’re heading into high school, and Akira has made the brave choice to come out as her authentic self and tell the world that she’s a girl! Hime, who was the first person Akira ever told her truth to, tries her best to be supportive by wearing the boys uniform too, but is that the right choice to make? And why is she suddenly feeling so brutally jealous now everyone else knows what was once a secret?

#I wanna be your girl #trans main character #reviews #manga #shoujo #shojo #yatta tachi

AJ reviews Tomohiro Tsugawa’s D’Artagnan’s Horse, the 6 year follow-up to Mermaid Town

D’Artangan’s Horse is Tsugawa’s follow-up to Mermaid Town. Six years on, his dreams are just as vivid as before. This new journey through the subconscious features fantastical food, mysterious maidens, and ghostly goings on.

#reviews #manga #yatta tachi

AJ reviews Mermaid Town – the graphic dream journal of Tsugawa Tomohito.

Artist and writer Tsugawa Tomohito takes us on a journey through his dreams in this graphic pseudo-memoir. The short stories collected within flit between genres and tones in the blink of an eye.

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AJ reviews Kusahara Umi’s short story collection “Mothers”, available in English for the first time.

Mothers collects 15 years of independent works by writer and artist Kusahara Umi. These twelve short stories, available in English for the first time, focus on the complex relationships between people. From the emotional difficulty of caring for a relative with dementia, to the way in which one kind word can save a life, the whole span of human experience is contained in these pages.

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AJ Reviews Moto Hagio’s iconic 70s Sci-fi Shoujo, and AMA Nominee, “They Were 11!”

Set in the distant future, where Earth has expanded colonies out into far-flung space, this 1970s sci-fi classic follows the adventures of a group of young people applying for an intergalactic, interspecies, cosmic academy. After finishing their final tests, these 10 young hopefuls must survive onboard an abandoned space ship for 43 days with no supervision. But when they arrive and suddenly there are 11 students instead of 10, suspicions arise. Can they work together to keep the ship safe, or will their fear of conspiracy get the better of them?

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I have a weird question: so we have yaoi for m/m and yuri for f/f, but what would be an appropriate term for nonbinary/nonbinary?

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Okay, so here's the thing: people have words for things they actually talk about. If a new concept arises or a new type of media pops up, people will naturally come up with ways to describe it.

I am all for you or anyone else who cares coming up with some nb/nb terminology.

But this ask implies that 'yaoi' and 'yuri' are a matched set and that there would naturally be another matching nb/nb term—perhaps also starting with a y?

But 'yaoi' and 'yuri' are not a matched set.

'Yuri', which means lily (the flower) came from a column for female readers of Barazoku, a magazine for gay men. That magazine title translates literally to Rose Tribe or, more colloquially, Pansy Tribe. (So when people call that muscular gay dude art style "bara", they're basically calling it "pansy art".) The magazine got a certain number of letters to the editor for women and started putting these in a "Lily tribe" section. Later on, the term evolved to describe lesbians and/or f/f content specifically. Part of that was that there simply was more f/f manga later and it was a marketing category.

'Yaoi' started as a self-deprecating term for gag doujinshi, more or less. It had a very "I am a trash panda hanging out in the dumpster with my besties!" vibe. It hasn't been a widespread term for m/m professional content in Japan during most time periods. It's certainly common enough. There are 801 jokes all over the place. (801 = ya-o-i) But it's just not a widespread and neutral name for m/m manga and the like in the way that 'yuri' has been for f/f manga.

Different eras, different histories of how they were coined, different relationships to professional content, different vibes: it's all different.

"BL" (boys' love) is for things marketed as BL. You can have m/m content that is incidental in a series not marketed as m/m. You can have m/m that is not aimed at the BL audience. Marketing categories exist to sell things, and only ones with enough of a defined market will exist. These aren't rigorous categorization systems meant to cover all possible content.

In practice, a nb/nb manga would probably get labeled based on the magazine or other venue it appeared in, and that venue would probably not be nb-focused.

Fandom has more reason to want such a term, but I don't know that we need a Japanese word specifically. In Japan, as far as I know, the local thing outside the binary is "X-gender". That does cover similar territory to 'nonbinary', but I don't know if the default connotations or biggest groups using the term are the same.

I think if we want terms to talk about nonbinariness as it is currently understood in, say, the United States, we should start from English. NB/NB? NB4NB? NBonly? Some cutesy in-group term that isn't obvious just from reading it the first time?

Long story short, if your question is how to classify Japanese media, I'm not sure what people are currently using, but nb/nb is probably such a small percentage of media that there isn't a consistent term.

But if your question is what we should use for fanfic, go ahead and coin a term.

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As someone who has somehow managed to get people to pay them to write critically about manga -- I think it is an interesting thing to discuss.

As OTNF said, Yuri and Yaoi are not a match set and have completely different meanings. Yuri is a word in its own right, and was also used as a symbol for All Girl's Catholic Schools. In fact, some still use lilies in their logos today! Since most f/f romance at the time was often based in catholic schools as part of the Class S genre, it makes sense that Bara picked it! Excellent naming choice. 10/10

Meanwhile, Yaoi is a portmanteau of "Yama nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi” which means “No climax, no point, no meaning”. So absolutely a trash panda loving their trash things. And also why BL is the preferred term now, because it covers a wider range of genres and stories. Dungeons & Dick is a Yaoi, My Love Mix-Up isn't.

There's also Geikomi - which is a portmanteau of "Gay Comics". This covers stories written by queer authors for a queer audience. This would include things like Boys Run the Riot, X-Gender, and Our Dreams at Dusk. Most of the Gender Non-Conforming representation can be found in this grouping. However, I don't know of any GNC/GNC romance manga that's made it's way to the English Market. It probably exists in Doujinshis somewhere, but hasn't made it over here yet. But not even mainstream western comics have reached the point of needing to have a whole section on the shelf for comics featuring only GNC characters!

The only GNC/GNC romance manga I can think of is Otonari Complex which is a Shoujo. And not classed as Geikomi or even close. Mostly because the pair are a boy and a girl who do a lot of soul searching about their gender presentation in relationship to their gender identity. And work together to come to a comfortable middle ground, but are still identifying as their assigned gender. So take from that what you will. I still liked it though, and there's plenty for other GNC folks to identify with.

So for now, I think we stick with the person in the tags who proposed EL for Enby Love. We'll have to see if it takes off!

It should also be pointed out, that GNC characters have been a STAPLE of Shoujo since it's birth. Princess Knight, Rose of Versailles, Fushigi Yugi, Sailor Moon, Fruits Basket, Kageki Shojo!!, Requiem of the Rose King, The King's Beast, I Wanna Be Your Girl .... if we continue to love and support GNC people around the world and include them in our stories, it's only a matter of time before they start cropping up in the pages of Shoujo publishers start producing their own EL (or XL) Magazines!

#replies #manga #no proofreading we die like mne #BL #GL #EL #XL

AJ recommends some of the perfect BL manga to celebrate 801 Day today, and all year round!

In Japanese “801” can be read as “Ya-o-i”. Thus on August 1st, fans, creators, and publishers alike, take the opportunity to celebrate all the delightfully gay manga out there!

#yaoi day #BL #bl recommendation #manga #manga recommendation #yattatachi #yatta tachi #801 day #recommendations

AJ recommends some extra spicy stories to help you celebrate 801 Day!

"Yaoi Day is not just about celebrating queer relationships that are wholesome and pure, it’s about the stuff that would cause Book Banners to spontaneously combust if they ever caught a glimpse of them."

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AJ reviews Best New Manga nominee “A Witch’s Life in Mongol” by Tomato Soup.

Check out my latest review of the hit manga "A Witch's Life in Mongol" over on the @yattatachi blog!

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AJ reviews The Gay Who Turned Kaiju, an own voices manga about how sometimes biting someone's head off is the first step on the road to self

My fav is problematic and my fav is "The Gay Who Turned Kaiju". Read all about this brilliant monster manga in my review for @yattatachi!

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