Download or read book This City Yaoi Novel written by Sapphire Sophilia and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Garret lost his mother, he put himself in the hands of Victor Perelli in hopes of finding security from the people who killed her. Instead, Garret finds himself becoming a pet to the son of the most powerful mob boss in Fort Worth. Just when things seem their lowest, Garret crosses paths with Alex. Alex is in town with his friends to get over a recent break up when Garret sweeps in out of nowhere to save them from a poorly located hotel. As the two get to know each other, the men find that they are the answers to each other's problems. But while Garret is able to ease Alex's heart ache, will Alex be able to save him in return from a vicious owner?
Download or read book Love in the Big City written by Sang Young Park and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest-selling debuts of recent years in Korea, Love in the Big City tells the story of a young gay man searching for happiness in the lonely city of Seoul Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting young writers. A runaway bestseller, the novel hit the top five lists of all the major bookstores, went into twenty-six printings, and was praised for its unique literary voice and perspective. It is now poised to capture a worldwide readership. Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Yet over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men, including one whose handsomeness is matched by his coldness, and another who might end up being the great love of his life. A brilliantly written novel that takes us into the glittering nighttime of Seoul and the bleary-eyed morning after with both humor and emotion, Love in the Big City is a wry portrait of millennial loneliness as well as the abundant joys of queer life.
Download or read book Pride and Prejudice yaoi novel written by Shinobu Simone and published by Blue Sky. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of intimate male companionship. Jane Austen’s classic romance has been re-envisioned as an elegant boy’s love story. Eliazar Bennet is the second of five sons whose mother wants nothing more for them all to be married off too good husbands. However the issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of an alternate history of the landed gentry of early 19th- century England may keep these young men from finding their true place in society and true love.
Download or read book Illustrating Asia written by John A. Lent and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations used for story-telling and mirth-making have enlivened Asian walls, scrolls, books, public and private places, and artifacts for millennia. Often playful and humorous, Asian pictorial stories lent conspicuous elements to contemporary comic art, particularly with their use of narrative nuance, humor, satire, and dialogue. Illustrating Asia is a fascinating book on a subject that is of wide and topical interest. All of the articles consider cartoon and/or comic art in the historical and social setting of seven South, Southeast, and East Asian countries: India, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, China, and Japan. The contributors treat comic and narrative art—including comic books, comic strips, picture books, and humor and fan magazines—in both historical and socio-cultural perspectives, as well as portrayals of ancient Chinese philosophy, gender, and the enemy in cartoons and comics. Contributors: Laine Berman, John A. Lent, Fusami Ogi, Rei Okamoto, Ronald Provencher, Aruna Rao, Kuiyi Shen, Shimizu Isao, Shu-chu Wei, Yingjin Zhang.
Download or read book Graphic Novels Beyond the Basics written by Martha Cornog and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the graphic novel and its growth in the library helps librarians utilize and develop this extraordinarily popular format in their library collections. What does the surge of popularity in graphic novels mean for libraries? Graphic Novels Beyond the Basics: Insights and Issues for Libraries goes deeper into this subject than any other volume previously published, bringing together a distinguished panel of experts to examine questions librarians may encounter as they work to enhance their graphic novel holdings. Graphic Novels Beyond the Basics begins by introducing librarians to the world of the graphic novel: popular and critically acclaimed fiction and nonfiction titles; a wide range of genres including Japanese manga and other international favorites; recurring story and character archetypes; and titles created for specific cultural audiences and female readers. The book then offers a series of chapters on key issues librarians will face with graphic novels on the shelves, including processing and retention questions, preservation and retention, collecting related media such as Japanese anime films and video games, potential grounds for patron or parental complaints, the future of graphic novels, and more.
Download or read book The Female Gaze written by Jan Suzukawa and published by Bell River Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the female gaze and why is it important? Arts, entertainment, and culture have been defined through the male gaze for centuries. But things are rapidly changing. The question is not whether society is ready, but whether women themselves are ready to fully express what they see through their gaze - their unique perspective as women. The Female Gaze discusses how the female gaze differs from the male gaze in books and movies such as Star Wars, Fifty Shades of Grey, Nomadland, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Emily the Criminal, and The Woman King, and also examines slash, Japanese yaoi, and m/m romance as alternatives to traditional heteronormative romance stories.
Download or read book Anime and Manga written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 1563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Let it Cry Yaoi Manga written by Ando Romeda and published by MediBang(global). This book was released on with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Omegaverse story set during the Meiji Era. A love across social boundaries that fights against a cruel fate, set against the backdrop of a pitiless era. –– It is the 16th year of the Meiji Era. Omegas in heat are widely despised. With no family to speak of, Maya lives like a slave as part of a freak show, where he is subjected to baseless violence and demands for sexual services. One day, Maya has a fateful encounter with Seiji Nagisa (alpha), the heir to a conglomerate. Maya finds himself gradually drawn to the warm, straightforward Seiji. A dramatic love story that unfolds in an irrational world.
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Download or read book Manga The Complete Guide written by Jason Thompson and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Reviews of more than 900 manga series • Ratings from 0 to 4 stars • Guidelines for age-appropriateness • Number of series volumes • Background info on series and artists THE ONE-STOP RESOURCE FOR CHOOSING BETWEEN THE BEST AND THE REST! Whether you’re new to the world of manga-style graphic novels or a longtime reader on the lookout for the next hot series, here’s a comprehensive guide to the wide, wonderful world of Japanese comics! • Incisive, full-length reviews of stories and artwork • Titles rated from zero to four stars–skip the clunkers, but don’t miss the hidden gems • Guidelines for age-appropriateness–from strictly mature to kid-friendly • Profiles of the biggest names in manga, including CLAMP, Osamu Tezuka, Rumiko Takahashi, and many others • The facts on the many kinds of manga–know your shôjo from your shônen • An overview of the manga industry and its history • A detailed bibliography and a glossary of manga terms LOOK NO FURTHER, YOU’VE FOUND YOUR IDEAL MANGA COMPANION!
Download or read book Sea View Yaoi written by Ayumi Kano and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kei's grandfather is a well-known architect, and the young boy cherishes every letter from his beloved relative...until the notes suddenly stop. Now, Kei must visit his grandfather's distant island home and solve the mystery for himself! Upon arriving, he meets the shy and aloof Michiru, a serious student at the school where Kei's grandfather once taught. Michiru may have the answers to Kei's burning questions...but will he cooperate? Can these two young men follow the clues and find their vanished hero?"--Dust jacket.
Download or read book Boys Love Cosplay and Androgynous Idols written by Maud Lavin and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer in this digital, globalist age. The title of this pioneering volume, Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan already gives an idea of the colorful, multifaceted realms the fans inhabit today. Contributors to this collection situate the proliferation of (often online) queer representations, productions, fantasies, and desires as a reaction against the norms in discourses surrounding nation-states, linguistics, geopolitics, genders, and sexualities. Moving beyond the easy polarities between general resistance and capitulation, Queer Fan Cultures explores the fans’ diverse strategies in negotiating with cultural strictures and media censorship. It further outlines the performance of subjectivity, identity, and agency that cyberspace offers to female fans. Presenting a wide array of concrete case studies of queer fandoms in Chinese-speaking contexts, the essays in this volume challenge long-established Western-centric and Japanese-focused fan scholarship by highlighting the significance and specificities of Sinophone queer fan cultures and practices in a globalized world. The geographic organization of the chapters illuminates cultural differences and the other competing forces shaping geocultural intersections among fandoms based in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. “This important collection complicates our understanding of fan practices, showing how national and regional factors play an important role in how media texts and identities are understood. It also shows how the Chinese-speaking world is home to dense and often conflicting modes of audience reception of cultural texts deriving from Sinophone, Japanese, and Western contexts.” —Mark McLelland, University of Wollongong “An exciting anthology by a talented group of emergent scholars whose vibrant studies offer fresh insights on the diverse practices and transregional flows of queer fandom in the Chinese-speaking world. Local in its specificity and transnational in its scope, this book highlights the creativity of queer fan practices while critically locating them within the political and social structures that produce them.” —Helen Hok-Sze Leung, Simon Fraser University
Download or read book Save Me Before I Fall Down Part 1 written by AmberFullMoon and published by AmberFullMoon. This book was released on 2022-07-27 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spectacular win in court turns into the defeat of a lifetime. A young lawyer's heart undergoes a severe test when he realizes that his good intentions have entailed great evil. Warsaw is shaken by a series of brutal murders of boys. Is the man on trial for the crime really guilty? Adam, his lawyer, believes he is and leads to his acquittal. Meanwhile, three days after his release from prison, the man is arrested at the scene of another murder.... Feeling guilty, the young lawyer begins to doubt his vocation. He begins to doubt himself. He flees to the Mazuria where he meets a mysterious, confident woodcutter. Will this acquaintance help heal his heart and face the consequences of the case he won? BL's psychological romance with elements of erotica, crime, thriller and legal will take you into the intriguing world of a heart that struggles with the darkness of the present and the past. Will Adam heal his heart, or will something, or someone, appear to drag him down even more? The first of two parts of Save Me Before I Fall Down.
Download or read book Millennium Darling 2006 Yaoi written by Maki Naruto and published by Digital Manga, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sakamoto's best friend, Yoichiro Takasugi, warns him that if he keeps acting so selfish and arrogant, his boyfriend will dump him. But Sakamoto's darling couldn't possibly do that--or would he?
Download or read book Cross Dressing Villainess Cecilia Sylvie Vol 3 light novel written by Hiroro Akizakura and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still disguised as her male alter ego, Cecil, reincarnated villainess Cecilia Sylvie discovers that the only surefire method of averting her death is raising all the heroes’ affections enough to enter the True Love Route. But Eins and Zwei, twins whose scenarios she never completed in her past life, are proving an uphill battle. As if that weren’t bad enough, the siblings seem to be hiding something... Meanwhile, escalating advances from Oscar and Gilbert have Cecilia’s heart racing! Will she be able to uncover the twins’ secret while hiding her own? Her life depends on it!
Download or read book Contemporary Japanese Women s Theatre and Visual Arts written by Nobuko Anan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of 'girls' aesthetics,' where adult Japanese women create art works about 'girls' that resist motherhood, from the modern to the contemporary period and their manifestation in Japanese women's theatrical and dance performance and visual arts including manga, film, and installation arts.
Download or read book Women We Love written by SooJin Lee and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women We Love: Femininities and the Korean Wave is an edited volume exploring femininities in and around the Korean Wave since 2000. While studies on the Korean Wave are abundant, there is a dearth of thought put toward the female-identifying stars, characters, and fans who shape and lead this crucial cultural movement. This collection of essays is one of the first works to focus on gender and the key female actors of this global phenomenon. Using “women” as an inclusive term extending to all those who self-define as women, this volume examines the role of women in K-pop and K-drama industries and fandom spaces, encompassing crucial intersectional topics such as queering of gender, dissemination of media, and fan culture. In addition to the communities engaged with visual culture of the Korean Wave, the audience for Women We Love will reflect the contributors to this text. They are K-pop and K-drama fans, queer, international; they are also academics of Asian histories, sociology, gender and sexuality, art history, and visual culture. The chapters are playful, intersectional, and will be adapted well into syllabi for media studies, gender studies, visual culture studies, sociology, and contemporary global history. “Women We Love goes far beyond the dyad of the flower boy Hallyu star and his female fan to offer readers an illuminating discussion of plural femininities in the Korean Wave since the turn of the millennium. The essays will answer many burning yet heretofore unanswered questions about the affective resonances and political significance of Korean popular culture’s gender dynamics, which have fascinated, puzzled, and at times frustrated many fans and observers. Rigorously interdisciplinary, yet grounded in textual detail, historical context, and material reception practices, this is a timely and valuable contribution to the study of gender, fandom, and global media.” —Michelle Cho, University of Toronto “This is a provoking and fascinating book—one of the most awaited books in Hallyu studies. Drawing from a multitude of feminist theories and case studies, this edited volume not only provides captivating and much-needed discussions but also critically expands the current debates in gender studies, feminism studies, and fan studies. This book is vital literature for researchers, students, and practitioners who are willing to advance their understanding of the Korean Wave from a new scope and angle.” —Dal Yong Jin, Simon Fraser University
