between Akemi Yoshida, Noriaki Fushimi, and Shion Miura
What It Is: Part of an official interview with Akemi Yoshida, author of Banana Fish, was scanned and shared on Twitter. (Source) The other two people who are part of the interview are worth googling, but suffice it to say that Shion Miura is a Japanese author and fan of BL (she's released a collection of essays called "Not Just A Hobby" about BL/geicomi/mxm fiction) and Noriaki Fushimi is an openly gay author and a media critic (he's written multiple books on the subject of gay sex and relationships in Japan, as well as interviews on the topic with other LGBTQ+ folks).
(If anyone has access to scans of the rest of the interview, I would love to translate the entire thing.)
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What It Is: Part of an official interview with Akemi Yoshida, author of Banana Fish, was scanned and shared on Twitter. (Source) The other two people who are part of the interview are worth googling, but suffice it to say that Shion Miura is a Japanese author and fan of BL (she's released a collection of essays called "Not Just A Hobby" about BL/geicomi/mxm fiction) and Noriaki Fushimi is an openly gay author and a media critic (he's written multiple books on the subject of gay sex and relationships in Japan, as well as interviews on the topic with other LGBTQ+ folks).
(If anyone has access to scans of the rest of the interview, I would love to translate the entire thing.)
( Read more... )