From: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com   
      
   Hi readers and typists,   
      
      
   Xgender manga is not online, but you can learn a lot about   
   it online.  Author is Asuka Miyazaki. But I got what I read   
   at the SF City Library. Preferred pronouns are they/their.   
      
   Since starting this one, decided I had seen the author's   
   work before and that I had in fact read Volume one.   
   	In Volume 1 they talk and illustrated with their   
   work how she lives and enjoys life.   
      
   	In Volume 2 they must confront the challenge of   
   life under Covid-19 restrictions. !st they vents about her   
   pain and loneliness of their work as a mangaka. They seem   
   to be quite introverted but still with a need to interact   
   with her small group of friends.  Because of the lack of   
   material every aspect of her life is up for expression   
   through their art.   
   	I think this is interesting but then i enjoy reading   
   about the lives of the creators of the art.  It may be comics   
   but this is not kid stuff - their unhappy life in school mocked   
   for her buckteeth which she spent a lot of money to change.   
   	They want to be a man and feels that her female   
   genitalia are ugly and out of place.  They feel that mentally   
   and emotionally she alternates between male and female   
   personalities. Not as identities but in their motivations and   
   activities.  They like to enjoy porn featuring women she finds   
   attractive but has no interest in involvement with real women.   
   	They are their mother's child whom Mother loves for   
   whom she lives. They considers suicide but puts it off until   
   their aged mother, passes.   
   	How good is this story? I would buy it to join other   
   stories like "A Drifting Life" about a mangaka as the field   
   develops after WW II by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. I would say it is   
   better than that long biography of Osamu Tezuka who did not   
   seem to do anything but work on manga though he went to   
   Medical School. It comes up close to "Showa A history" by   
   Shigeru Mizuki in revealing mental and emotional details.   
   But Mizuki had a lot more material to cover in the long   
   reign of Hirohito (Showa was the era name and the after   
   death name given to Hirohito).   
      
   	bliss   
      
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