I finally had some time to translate the Yoneda Kou interview in the March issue of the magazine “Da Vinci” that came out last month. The issue focuses on introducing BL manga to male readers, and includes interviews with some other BL mangaka like Harada, Takarai Rihito, and Kumota Haruko as well.
“Saezuru tori wa habatakanai” is a BL manga about the lives of men on the dark side of society. Despite its genre and graphic sex scenes the series has an exceptional number of male supporters as well. Why is that? We’ve asked the author Yoneda Kou who recently started serializing another series called “OP – The Colorless Days of Yoake Itaru” in the seinen magazine “Evening”.
The setting is a well-known criminal organization, the Japanese Yakuza. In Saezuru tori wa habatakanai which tells the story of the shrewd wakagashira Yashiro and the ex-cop Doumeki who becomes his personal assistant / bodyguard, Yoneda Kou creates a dense picture of a male-dominated world wavering between chivalry and jealousy, conspiracies and sexual desire. Not only is the series immensely popular among BL readers, it also receives favorable ratings from outside the genre, having won prizes like the FRaU Manga Award and the SUGOI JAPAN Award. Even the author herself never expected such a response from Non-BL readers when she first started serializing her work. »It feels very odd to me, since I’m drawing with the intention of creating a straightforward BL story. Given Yashiro’s characterization as lewd and masochistic, I first thought that my manga wouldn’t even appeal to many BL readers. That’s why I simply feel happy that someone would go so far as recommend it to others.«
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Vegas: Remember when I tortured you and you fell in love with me?
Pete: Vegas.
Vegas: Fine, when I tortured you, you laughed during it and I became obsessed with you forever.
Picture it - Vegas gets shot in the family showdown, and Pete drags him under a table trying to keep him alive by applying pressure to the wound. Vegas tells Pete to just let him die, and Pete replies that is too easy. He applies more pressure causing pain and says "you must suffer until I'm satisfied"
Episode 2 - When Vegas is first introduced, he smiles at Porsche (& Pete)
Episode 4 - Vegas puts his hand on Pete's shoulder and squeezes while smiling before sitting down
Episode 5 - When Vegas goes to pick up Porsche at the club he asks if *they* are leaving, then says to Pete that he has something to show Porsche Episode 6 - Vegas caresses Pete's hand when he grabs the box and asks him if he would like to share the condoms
Episode 7 - Vegas puts his hand on Pete's neck to guide him out of the hallway after looking him up and down and up at the ceiling
[Vegas always steals little glances at Pete throughout the episode, and Pete also stands on the right hand side of Vegas when he kills Wang and Don]
Character Message - Only Vegas touches Pete in the tub
Pete never reciprocates the touches or acknowledges the sexual innuendos as being sexual throughout the episodes.
So the question remains - What will happen to Vegas when Pete does finally touch him back?
Both the car scene and hallway scene feature the usual reds and greens, but also BLUE, Pete's color and the color of lust.
Pete wears dark blue in both scenes as the object of Vegas's lust.
If this is how Vegas stands and looks at Porsche, his target ordered by his father before he kisses him (in his predator leopard print)
compared to how he stands and looks at Pete after asking if he is "looking for something?" (*cough* like his bed *cough*) while wearing his Rich Daddy velvet green robe...
Have we missed the obvious and Vegas is genuinely already attracted to Pete?
This man is God sent 🫶🏽
{Words by José Olivarez from Citizen Illegal /@fatimaamerbilal , from even flesh eaters don't want me.}
Unfriendly fucking reminder that Anti fujoshi views are inherently anti queer, anti women and racist.
"But I am only refering to cishet girls" The ones recieving the impact on fandom are queer people, not cishet people. Queer people are the ones who see you ranting about anything they do in fandom is fetishizing, not cishet people. Also why do you openly admit to targeting girls and women and find no issue with that?
"But fujoshi means..." A misogynistic insult that women and other queer people have reclaimed from misogynistic dudebros frustranted that women had hobbies outside of making them their sandwich. To use fujoshi as an insult again is almost the equivalent of using queer as an insult again. You just look as a dick.
"But fetishizers..." 9/10 times whenever someone uses "fetishizers" they mean inocuous shit like sharing some fanart or saying a character is attractive. If someone is legit being gross about a group while still thirsting for them as a whole then yeah, that is bad, but you don't need to target them because of their sexuality or gender for that. Call out their actions when they are being demonsteably harmful, not when you don't like their ship.
"But I have queer asian trans men friends and they hate fujoshi too!" I literally didn't asked and that is irrelevant. Call out bad people when they do bad actions. If all they do is swoon over anime boys kissing and holding hands or full on fucking hardcore, that is not for you or your friends to police. This is not hard. Also, why only your queer asian friends you agreed with already are worth listening and the bunch of queer asian people telling you to stop this shit are not?
"But they..." No. Call out actual bad actions.
If the ultimate goal of your shitty movement is less people are able to share/enjoy/create queer content, think really hard about who that actually benefits because, trust me, it's not queer people.
So only two out of the three Tennessee representatives who protested gun violence were actually expelled from the state legislature… bet you can’t guess which two…!
Shocking!
But what is actually shocking is that these two democratically-elected representatives each have about 78,000 constituents whose voices have now been silenced by extremist Republicans who think that they don’t deserve a say in their own state legislature. That is not democracy!
DONATE HERE to support Justin Pearson and Justin Jones in upcoming special elections where they can win back a seat in the legislature.
Sources:
NPR
Vote Save America (Crooked Media)
Hear it from the representatives themselves:
Justin Pearson speaks out on the right to protest
Justin Jones responds to his expulsion, calling out the other legislators who have not been expelled for doing actual crimes