Post by @ChurchHatesTucker@mefi.social

2026-03-16 21:55 UTC

#MangaMonday 101 “[OSHI NO KO] TV Anime 1st Season Official Guidebook: First Report” by Aka Akasaka (Author) & Mengo Yokoyari (Artist) OK, it’s not a #manga, but it’s an book about an #anime based on a manga. Close enough! I also realized I haven’t recommended the original, so consider this a back-door recommendation. “Oshi No Ko” the anime is winding up its second season, but Yen Press just released this translation of the guidebook to the first. If you’ve seen similar books, you’ll know what to expect. There’s a lot of illustrations, model sheets of the various characters, and interviews with the voice actors and some of the staff (including the manga creators, who are given titular credit for this as well.) There’s even interviews with the musicians who did the opening and ending credits. Yen Press did a good job with this. Even though there’s no sequential images, the book reads right to left at the column of text level, preserving the feel of the original. #OshiNoKo

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@ChurchHatesTucker@mefi.social 2026-03-30 15:01

#MangaMonday #102 "I Think Our Son is Gay" by Okura A very cute #manga about the mother of a closeted #gay high school boy. She's got her son pretty well sussed out, and she tries to be discreetly supportive, but mostly she observes her son and his relationships with his peers. She also has some telling interactions with the other adults in her life. There's an interesting dynamic with the (frequently absent on work trips) father of the house, who has more traditional views and is inadvertently hurtful to his son. Mom doesn't want to out her son, and isn't very confident in her opinions, so she runs low level interference. There's another, younger, son who is more of a mystery (and ends up stealing most of the scenes he's in.) Okura is a gay man himself but, as he explains in an extra chapter, he didn't come out to his mother until after volume one was published. Complete with all five volumes available in English (Square Enix.) #IThinkOurSonIsGay

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