Download or read book Crossplay Love Otaku x Punk Vol 1 written by Toru and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shuumei has a problem: he's in love with Hana, a girl who works in a maid cafe. Unfortunately, he's too embarrassed to go in and talk to her...until he puts on girl's clothes and transforms himself into Mei. What Shuumei doesn't realize is that Hana is actually Hanae, an otaku boy who's more comfortable with people when he's dressed as a girl! What's more, neither of them are aware that they both go to the same school. Appearances can be deceiving in this wacky cross-dressing love comedy!
Download or read book Crossplay Love Otaku x Punk Vol 2 written by Toru and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hana(e) and (Shuu)Mei are continuing to develop their relationship slowly, and still neither realize that the other is also a crossdressing guy...! Things get even crazier when Shuumei's punk bro Kanoko manages to sniff out his crush. When Hana becomes Kanoko's stalking victim, Mei leaps in to protect her! But when Kanoko sees the strong-willed and powerful Mei, he falls in love at first sight?!
Download or read book Crossplay Love Otaku x Punk Vol 8 written by Toru and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two guys who hate each other are also two girls forming a close friendship, wires are bound to get crossed! After the manager of Cafe Roman is injured in an accident, his crossdressing friend Shizuku is recruited to help keep the shop afloat. Hana takes the utmost care not to out Shizuku's real identity, but it might already be too late for that...?
Download or read book Crossplay Love Otaku x Punk Vol 4 written by Toru and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The misunderstandings between the Otaku and Punk continue! When Shimazaki asks Hanae to help him with some modeling, Hana becomes a wig model. Mei is disappointed to see Hana with a stranger (a.k.a. Shimazaki in cosplay), worrying about what their relationship could be. Then Shuumei's best friend, Yuzuru, recognizes Shimazaki...and figures out that Hana is really Hanae?! Yuzuru is the only one who knows both of their secrets, but what's he supposed to say?
Download or read book Crossplay Love Otaku x Punk Vol 9 written by Toru and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hanayama gets his hands on some erroneous information, he mistakenly assumes that Yuuma is a close friend of Shuumei's and kidnaps him to exact his revenge! It's not like Yuuma means anything to Shuumei, so what will Shuumei do when he finds out?! When a case of mistaken identity goes this wrong, surely something else is bound to slip!
Download or read book Crossplay Love Otaku x Punk Vol 10 written by Toru and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yuuma's stuck between a rock and a hard place--not only does he have to take part in his class's crossplay cafe exhibition, he's also supposed to be there as Hana from Cafe Roman to help out! Meanwhile Shuumei, on seeing Yuuma crossdress, is hit with a deluge of baffling feelings... Will it be smooth sailing for these two or are turbulent waters ahead?!
Download or read book Crossplay Love Otaku x Punk Vol 7 written by Toru and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two very different boys know each other as two very different girls, it's no wonder things get confusing! Mei and Hana's friendship only grows, meanwhile the antagonism between otaku Yuuma and punk Shuumei has shown no signs of lessening. However, things are about to get jumbled. As friend Kanoko's persistence turns tiring, Mei approaches Yuuma for help in fending him off! The unexpected event brings Mei and Yuuma together, and secrets get harder to keep.
Download or read book Crossplay Love Otaku x Punk Vol 6 written by Toru and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mei and Hana are still completely clueless as to each other's true identities, but Yuuma and Shuumei's true colors are beginning to peek through! When a series of unexpected events result in Yuuma being invited over to Shuumei's house for the day, suddenly being in close proximity means both have to be careful not to let the cat out of the bag. There are pitfalls and traps galore to avoid if Yuuma wants to keep his secret!
Download or read book Crossplay Love Otaku x Punk Vol 3 written by Toru and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The punk, Shuumei, and the otaku, Yuuma, fell for each other while crossdressed as cool beauty Mei and bubbly maid Hana, respectively. Things continue to spiral as Yuuma and his bestie Shimazaki try to help cure their normie friend Nakamura, who's afraid of girls... because they keep falling in love with him! Though the otaku aren't exactly sympathetic, Shimazaki offers to help him... by accidentally taking him to Roman, the cafe where Yuuma works as Hana! Will his bestie figure him out? What if Nakamura falls in love? Most importantly... where's Mei?!
Download or read book Crossplay Love Otaku x Punk Vol 5 written by Toru and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Otaku Yuuma and punk Shuumei still have no idea just how close they are to their crushes! Neither has any clue that the girl they like is actually their least favorite person in disguise. So while "Mei" and "Hana" are slowly bridging the gap between them and getting closer to the objects of their affections, other events churn in the background. Just when everything seems to be going well, Mei's spirit is put to the ultimate test!
Download or read book Women s Manga in Asia and Beyond written by Fusami Ogi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond offers a variety of perspectives on women’s manga and the nature, scope, and significance of the relationship between women and comics/manga, both globally as well as locally. Based on the activities since 2009 of the Women’s MANGA Research Project in Asia (WMRPA), the edited volume elucidates social and historical aspects of the Asian wave of manga from ever-broader perspectives of transnationalization and glocalization. With a specific focus on women’s direct roles in manga creation, it illustrates how the globalization of manga has united different cultures and identities, focusing on networks of women creators and readerships. Taking an Asian regional approach combined with investigations of non-Asian cultures which have felt manga’s impact, the book details manga’s shift to a global medium, developing, uniting, and involving increasing numbers of participants worldwide. Unveiling diverse Asian identities and showing ways to unite them, the contributors to this volume recognize the overlaps and unique trends that emerge as a result.
Download or read book Gender After Gender in Consumer Culture written by Elisabeth Tissier-Desbordes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender After Gender in Consumer Culture provides an updated discussion of how gender cuts across consumer culture, in light of increasing gender fragmentation and integration with other identity positions. Sex, the biological distinction male/female, and gender, which refers to a person’s sense of being male, female, or any other combinations of these, inform issues as varied as personal identity, social interactions, and market behaviours. First, contributions account for the increasing fluidity and/or fragmentation of gender positions, which reshape the interplay between consumers and marketers. Second, they provide a timely illustration of how consumption and markets concur in contrasting gender inequalities, taken both individually and jointly (e.g., at the intersection of ethnicity or positions of market marginalisation). Third, chapters question the role of gender in granting personal and societal well-being, as they reflect on the collective capacity of constantly undoing gender stereotypes. Focusing on gender, this book allows the reader to trace the links among cultural categories (e.g. masculinity, femininity, gender identity), social phenomena, and market (dis)functioning. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in the journal Consumption Markets & Culture.
Download or read book Cosplayers written by A. Luxx Mishou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosplayers: Gender and Identity is an examination of identity practices in cosplay, as expressed by cosplayers themselves. It challenges the assumed correlation between cosplay and cosplayer identity and considers the lived experiences of cosplayers engaging in the fan practice of sartorial performance. Through a series of chapters covering the blurring lines of gender, sexualized fantasy in real spaces, and nostalgia, the author argues that observational data run the risk of affirming normative expectations of identity in the absence of cosplayer narratives, and produce misreadings that generalize. The work develops and builds an understanding of a complex cultural system of art, engaging with multiple methodologies to make identity, fandom, and critical analysis on the parts of participants and observers alike. This is an accessible and innovative study suitable for scholars and students in gender studies, cultural studies, sexuality studies, sociology, and media studies.
Download or read book Entrepreneurial Cosplay written by Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneurial Cosplay takes a comprehensive and insightful look at the business of cosplay, exploring the ways that artists and fans engage in entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial practices to gain personal and professional success. Centered around the concept of entrepreneurship and the newly emerging concept of intrapreneurship – using entrepreneurial principles to enhance or further an existing concept, organization or product – the book showcases the ways in which cosplayers create new ideas, new ways of working and new ways of doing things, exploiting their knowledge to create new opportunities. By analyzing the numerous motivations driving cosplay behavior (self-expression, external recognition and financial gain), this volume provides a unique view of current cosplay practice and its relationship to economic activity. Offering important insight into this emerging area, this book will be of interest to scholars seeking to learn how entrepreneurial and economic models may be used to understand the emerging field of cosplay studies, as well as students and scholars working in the fields of Entrepreneurship, Business, Fan Studies, Visual Art Studies and Gender Studies.
Download or read book Crossplay written by Niki Smith and published by Iron Circus Comics. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close friends and new acquaintances at an anime convention confront their crushes, challenge their hang-ups, and question their once-comfortable identities in this erotic graphic novel about discovering who you’re meant to truly be and who you’re meant to love. The debut graphic novel of creator Niki Smith, cartoonist and Smut Peddler contributor.
Download or read book Costuming Cosplay written by Therèsa M. Winge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosplay, short for "costume play", has grown from its origins at fan conventions into a billion-dollar global dress phenomenon. Costuming Cosplay takes us from elaborately crafted DIY costumes to online fandoms, examining how the practice of portraying fictional characters from popular culture through dress and performance has become a creative means of expressing and playing with different identities. With an approach that ranges from admiration and role-play to gender performance, this is the first book to fully examine the subculture and costume of the Cosplay phenomenon. Drawing on extensive first-hand research at conventions across North America and Asia, Therèsa M. Winge invites us to explore how Cosplay functions as a meritocracy of creativity, escapism, and disguise, and offers a creative realm in which fantasy and new forms of socializing carry as much importance as costume. Illustrated with color photographs of both celebrity and amateur Cosplayers, Costuming Cosplay is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion and costume, popular culture, anthropology, gender, and media studies, as well as global players and fans of Cosplay.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture written by Jennifer Coates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion is a comprehensive examination of the varied ways in which gender issues manifest throughout culture in Japan, using a range of international perspectives to examine private and public constructions of identity, as well as gender- and sexuality-inflected cultural production. The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture features both new work and updated accounts of classic scholarship, providing a go-to reference work for contemporary scholarship on gender in Japanese culture. The volume is interdisciplinary in scope, with chapters drawing from a range of perspectives, fields, and disciplines, including anthropology, art history, history, law, linguistics, literature, media and cultural studies, politics, and sociology. This reflects the fundamentally interdisciplinary nature of the dual focal points of this volume—gender and culture—and the ways in which these themes infuse a range of disciplines and subfields. In this volume, Jennifer Coates, Lucy Fraser, and Mark Pendleton have brought together an essential guide to experiences of gender in Japanese culture today—perfect for students, scholars, and anyone else interested in Japan, culture, gender studies, and beyond.
