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“One day, while running my eyes over the display racks in the Kinokuniya bookstore, its Japanese literary offerings dispiritingly beyond my ken, I recognized the Arashi ga oka charaters on the book jacket of a manga volume. The image on the cover of Ogi Yuzuha’s manga depicts a grand turreted mansion in front of which a man sports a windswept coif of a style favored by Japanese pop idols. On the book jacket the big-haired man puts his hand down the unzipped jeans of a blonde young man, who seems unfazed by this development….Intrigued, I purchased Ogi’s manga and carried it home for closer analysis.”
From the introduction of Judith Pascoe’s book On the Bullet Train with Emily Bronte, when Pascoe discovers yaoi, a genre of ‘boys love’ manga that focuses on sexual, and homosexual relationships:
This is the manga, available at Amazon.jp only.