Bryancita de Amadeus

LET’S MAKE SOME NOIZ! (sorry, couldn’t resist :P)

One yaoi douojinshi called out to me, I followed my fujo heart, and thanks to the kind people on the internet (and Japan digitalizing this art piece), now more people can witness this absolutely endearing, terrible Egypt yaoi: Nile wo Sakanobotte (ナイルを遡って, Going Up the Nile, 1989) by Yahagi Takako.

Top left image is how I discovered this self-published work: I was reading Sharon Kinsella's Adult Manga (Routledge, 2000), and this page came up in the chapter about the rise of the amateur works during the 80s. This single image promised me all the yaoi tropes one could think of. I had to find our more about it. I needed to know if this artist had more works like this!

It turns out that she thrived more in the horror genre and did quite a number of redikomi, examples of which you can see on Feh Yes's blog. My hopes of seeing such an authentic 80s yaoi style dwindled as I scrolled down the results, but when I searched "ナイルを遡って", I saw a totally different manga cover, but the same artstyle!

YES! surprisingly, this doujinshi was digitally released in 2022 by Bisous Bisous Comics (such a cute company name!).

I can finally die in peace.