6/18/2023 0 Comments I hear the sunspot![]() When Taichi tells Kōhei his plans, it devastates Kōhei, but he buries feelings deep down to make Taichi happy. But that means that Taichi must drop out of college to pursue this unique opportunity. Sai owns a company called Sign, where he helps people with hearing difficulties learn sign language. But their relationship is put to the test when Taichi gets a job offer from a young man named Sai. Moreover, she starts to despise Taichi and does everything she can to block him from Kōhei.Įventually, Taichi apologizes to Kōhei. Taichi keeps trying to find ways to apologize to Kōhei for being drunk, but Maya keeps interfering. Things get worse when a girl named Maya Ōkami enters the picture. 4 (2013): 638-655.This is the second volume of the I Hear the Sunspot manga series.Īfter sharing a kiss Taichi and Kōhei end up on non-speaking terms. “Drawing Disability in Japanese Manga: Visual Politics, Embodied Masculinity, and Wheelchair Basketball in Inoue Takehiko’s REAL.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, no. The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life. Swain, John and Colin Cameron, “Unless Otherwise Stated: Discourses of Labelling and Identity in Coming Out.” In Disability Discourse, edited by Mairian Corker and Sally French, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1999. “My Body, My Closet: Invisible Disability and the Limits of Coming Out.” In The Disability Studies Reader, edited by Lennard J. “A Trove of Love Fiction, All for the Love of Women.” The Japan Times, Dec 21, 2008, Accessed Nov. Introduction to Framed: Interrogating Disability in the Media, ed. “Sexual Minorities in Japan: The Myth of Tolerance.”, Oct 21, 2016, Accessed Nov. New York: New York University Press, 2006. Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. “Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence.” In The Disability Studies Reader, edited by Lennard J. ![]() “The Concept of ‘Politeness’: A Comparative Study in Chinese and Japanese Verbal Communication.” Intercultural Communication Studies, no. Kawasaka, Kazuyoshi, “Between Nationalisation and Globalisation: Male Same-Sex Politics in Post-War Japan.” PhD diss., University of Sussex, 2015. “Are Cultures Becoming Individualistic? A Cross-Temporal Comparison of Individualism-Collectivism in the United States and Japan.” Personality and Social Psychology Review, no. Linguistic Stereotyping and Minority Groups in Japan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. “Becoming Disabled.” New York Times, August 19, 2016. New York: One Peace Books, 2018.įumino, Yuki. New York: One Peace Books, 2017.įumino, Yuki. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018.įumino, Yuki. In ABC Family to Freeform TV: Essays on the Millennial-Focused Network and Its Programs, edited by Emily L. “Deaf is Not a Bad Word”: The Positive Construction of Disability in Switched at Birth. Cambridge: South End Press, 1999.įarris, Anelise. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation. “Coming out as LGBTQ: It’s not one moment, but several,” The Washington Post, June 30, 2016. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Ĭarpenter, Julia. Contours of Abelism: The Production of Disability and Abledness. “Deaf Culture - Big D Small D,” Very Well, June 28, 2016. ![]() Fumino uses the figure of Kohei to represent the struggles of self-acceptance as it relates to intersectional queer and disabled identities, and the figure of Taichi to represent the ‘bridge’ of community building as a catalyst to this self-acceptance in a society where both disabled and queer communities are seen as outsiders.īerke, Jamie. Employing a range of characters, the manga confronts the problem of compulsory able-bodiedness and the need for disabled persons to fill prescribed roles, the process of moving away from self-isolation to self-acceptance, and the debate between living insularly within a disabled community or community building between disabled and nondisabled communities. Yuki Fumino’s currently ongoing series, I Hear the Sunspot, is a manga that provides a voice for those on the “outside” of society as it examines Japanese cultural attitudes toward both disability and homosexuality. Queer, disability, queer identity, cultural attitudes, social interaction, anime, lgbt, Compulsory Able-Bodiedness Abstract
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