Showing posts with label high school life of a fudanshi. Show all posts
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Monday, December 18, 2017

Holiday Review: THE HIGH SCHOOL LIFE OF A FUDANSHI

You'd think that I would have been looking forward to this one, considering that it was a 4-koma comedy all about BL fandom and Seven Seas's first tenuous steps towards licensing the real deal.  If only it had more than just one joke.

THE HIGH SCHOOL LIFE OF A FUDANSHI (Fudanshi Koko Seikatsu), by Atami Michinoku.  First published in 2015 and first published in North America in 2017.




PLOT:

Ryo Sakaguchi has a secret: he loves BL manga.  He loves it so much that he ships his classmates, spends all his money on manga and merchandise, and confuses his best friend Nakamura with fandom jargon.  Yet he's afraid of others finding out and thinking that he's gay, so he often has to settle for Twitter and lurking in the BL aisles of bookstores.  So how is he going to deal with manipulative, openly gay Shiratori, fanatical fujoshi Nishihara, and fellow fudanshi and amateur mangaka Daigo?