Search Results for: Kaori Tsurutani
BL First Crush Anthology: Five Seconds Before We Fall in Love is a collection of 29 BL short stories. And by that, I mean very short stories. The following mangaka took part: Agri Uma, Akihito Sato, Azusa Banjo, Bimita, Chiruko Furuya, Fujisaki Moe, Hana Hasumi, …Read more »
Offshore Lightning is an alternative, literary, slice of life manga anthology. It has 11 short stories: “Towards the Sunset,” “Offshore Lightning,” “Parakeet God,” “Buy Dog Food, Then Go Home,” “Countdown,” “A Mother of Pearl Ship,” “Gingko,” “Upskirt,” “In Captivity,” and “House of Solitary Death.” There …Read more »
The live-action adaptation of the manga BL Metamorphosis (Metamorphose no Engawa in Japanese) by Kaori Tsurutani is hitting Japanese theaters tomorrow, June 17. As a last bit of promotional push, Nikkatsu has released a video that first shows a scene from the movie, then concludes …Read more »
In BL Metamorphosis, the main characters bond over their love of BL, and they have a special place in their heart for their manga series Kimi no Koto dake Miteitai (translated as I Only Want to Keep Looking at You). I Only Want to Keep …Read more »
The next stop for Kaori Tsurutani’s BL Metamorphosis manga is a live-action film adaptation, with the movie set to open in Japanese theaters on June 17. Lead cast members include Mana Ashida as Urara and Nobuko Miyamoto as Ichinoi, and a new trailer has arrived …Read more »
Ninety-five people (mostly bookstore workers) looked at 216 different manga titles to decide which they think should be nominated for the 14th Manga Taisho awards (a.k.a the Cartoon Grand Prize). In order to qualify, the manga had come out in 2020 and have eight volumes …Read more »
In Kaori Tsurutani‘s BL Metamorphosis manga, 75-year-old widow Ichinoi muses about how fast time slips by. When a café she’s been visiting for years is abruptly shut down, she finds herself wandering into a bookstore. The cookbook section she goes to is now the manga …Read more »
Another year, another Manga Taisho. This award, one of the most prestigious out there, is for up-and-coming manga titles with eight or fewer collected volumes. Each year, folks employed at bookstores around Japan get together (in spirit, at least) to select the nominees. This year, …Read more »
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