AniFem Round-Up Coming of age as a queer teen in Okazaki Kyoko’s River’s Edge Okazaki’s 90s manga is a portrait of queer youth during both the “gay boom” and Japan’s economic crisis, where the most open these kids could be was when meeting up to look at a corpse. Talk to Me: The stories you […]
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