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I just receive the manga. Sumiko-sensei did a wonderful job! Color pages at the beginning, a long additional chapter at the end, and bonuses (and three different bonuses depending on where you buy it). No wonder she couldn't release new chapters lately… I hope she's not overworked.
Anyway, it's a real pleasure to finally having it in my hands. I hope the internation audience will have a release as well to support the author!
So do all four booklets have different story content or just different illustrations? I've got two coming (winter and summer), but I'm trying to talk myself out of getting the other two since I can't find them without books and I already got cough number of books to resell here in the US. Which might be easy to do or not since they are in Japanese.
last edited at Apr 20, 2023 10:41AM
Apparently there is an official spotify playlist now. I don't have the app to double check what songs they have listed, but that's a neat thing to go along with her book release today.
"The official playlist of the manga released today....now available https://umj.lnk.to/TheGuySheWasTP
The song that Mitsuki and Aya are listening to is selected by the author Sumiko Arai."
https://twitter.com/UNIVERSAL_INTER/status/1648523163238809606
last edited at Apr 18, 2023 11:28PM
It's this interview from way back last June... https://getnews.jp/archives/3299988
Bad Google Translation:
"I tried to draw what would happen if the person I liked was really close to me. I love the combination of opposite characters so I thought I'd make a duo that would never get along if they were normal. I also like Western music, so it's nice to have a relationship that connects through music. I also think about it, and it's a story that's packed with my own 'likes'." ...
"I don't really know if the manga I'm drawing is a so-called 'yuri'. There was a time when I was worried about my sexuality, and I am very happy that people of various sexualities, backgrounds, lives, and occupations will be able to see the stories and characters that are born from that. I would be happy if you could watch over Mitsuki and Aya warmly.'"
So she had been talking about putting a lot of herself in the story including romantic likes. The fact a story born from her perspective (including her sexuality) can be enjoyed by so many people makes her happy. She's not worried anymore. She's put herself into this and found people have accepted it beyond a "so-called" category and it's become a universally understood feeling. There's romance in the story and it's between Mitsuki and Aya. Her own publisher frames it like that for the book coming out.
In the months since she's drawn them moving in together in the future, on a holiday together five years down the road, matching couple accessories etc, and they fall very neatly into her "type" from previous manga. Her muse has been constant over the years and you see whispers of the two in her prior work. The change is people accepting it beyond the usual reach. That has to be such a great feeling as she puts a lot of herself into it.
Hi, sorry for asking here but for those who Amazon doesnt deliver the manga in their regions, know another method?
Buyee is a proxy service in Japan that will handle the domestic ordering > international shipping of items (usually auction sites etc but other sites too) and I did a search for the book there with Yahoo Japan selected (search for 気になってる人が男じゃなかった) and it came up. I have a feeling they ship to more countries than an individual store would, but you'll have to double check your specific situation. If you're confused on how Buyee works you can look on youtube for tutorial videos from anime fans showing them shop on it. Hope that helps.
And while there has been no English publisher announced, it seems like she's done a lot of work editing and cleaning up pages so it should be a way smoother process for her any a future publisher since that step from web comic to print is already done.