THE LOYAL PIN | EPISODE SIX

~ Yuta in Paris ~

Interview Translation

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.

Yoneda Kou – Her realistic portrayals of men receive attention even outside the genre of BL

“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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Is Vegas flirting with Pete?

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?

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Anyways, this is fucking disgusting.

^ Becky Albertalli author of Simon vs. the Homosapien Agenda

^ Dove Cameron

Listen, I understand being curious about celebrities' lives. If you see a celebrity doing a bunch of gay things you might think "hey, maybe that artist is queer" but that's as far as it should go. You should never harass, or threaten, or force anyone to come out. That is fucking disrespectful and wrong. Queerness is about including anyone who feels that they do not fit into normal society, there is no one way of being queer. It's not a box, it's free and open and that's the beauty of it, so how about we fucking stop forcing queer people to come out, or label themselves, it's none of your business.

This has become a pattern and it needs to STOP