Ashita Mata Kimi no Uchi e / 明日また君の家へ

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel subtitled Fun Home a “Family Tragicomic” which suits it very well. It is indeed a graphic rendering of a family locked in tragedy, caught in moments from her life and from the life and death of her father.

12 Days – Digital Edition

When Jackie’s ex-lover Noah dies, she decides the best and quickest way to get over the love of her life is to hold a personal ritual with Noah’s ashes. Jackie consumes the ashes in the form of smoothies for 12 days, hoping the pain will subside with her profound reaction to Noah’s death. While she and her partner-in-crime Nick, Noah’s brother, spend the time in the closed space her apartment, they slowly become consumed by Noah’s tragedy.

Digital Manga available on Comixology

Naturize /ナチュリーズ

コミック Publisher: 一迅社 (April 18, 2015) ISBN-10: 4758074062 ISBN-13: 978-4758074063 Release Date: April 18, 2015

Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture

Presenting a fresh examination of women writers and prewar ideology, this book breaks new ground in its investigation of love as a critical aspect of Japanese culture during the early to mid-twentieth century. As a literary and cultural history of love and female identity, Becoming Modern Women focuses on same-sex love, love marriage, and maternal love—new terms at that time; in doing so, it shows how the idea of “woman,” within the context of a vibrant print culture, was constructed through the modern experience of love.