JAPAN – Yes, you read that right. Not a manga about hermaphrodites, but BY a hermaphrodite.
I was browsing through the comics section of my local bookshop and found this:
It was the catchline on the cover that caught my eye. “Japan’s first hermaphrodite manga artist (intersex)”. Underneath that: “Manga artist Arai Sho takes a scalpel to sex taboos. CONTROVERSIAL MANGA!”
Now, I’ve read a lot of manga, some of it pretty weird stuff. But I think this one takes the biscuit – particularly as its non-fiction.
Here’s Arai’s profile from inside. Read the rest of this entry »




