This seems like a good time to switch over to the art. I was really moved by the positivity of Love, Simon. How about non-literary influences was the story in Our Colors influenced by any movies, TV shows, or games? I have always written “comics I want to read” and this time it was “comics I would have liked to have read in high school.” Are there any writers, or specific stories, that had a particularly big influence on Our Colors but not on anything else you’ve written? Our Colors is your seventh major series after The Toyed Man, The Silver Flower, Pride, The House Of Brutes, Do You Remember The South Island’s POW Camp, and My Brother’s Husband. I think that’s who I really hope is affected by this story. It’s principally a “coming of age” story, but not just for younger readers, but for older readers, actually. I wanted to depict a relationship where two gay men of different generations could discover each other’s commonalities and differences learn from each other. Amamiya is an out and proud middle-aged man as opposed to a fellow teenager who’s also out or an even older out gay man, like say in his 70s? In a similar vein, is there a reason why his friend Mr. I also wanted a way to talk about the names of paint colors, and ways to talk about color in general, hence: painter. I wanted Sora as a main character to coincide somewhat with who I was as a young person. Is there a reason Sora is an aspiring painter as opposed to an aspiring filmmaker or aspiring video game designer or some other kind of visually-oriented creative person? As I’m now in my 50s, I think of it as a gift to myself 40 years ago. It’s something I’d wanted to read as a middle and high schooler myself, so decided to write for my own self. Where did you get the idea for Our Colors? Set in contemporary Japan, Our Colors is a story that takes place one summer in a seaside town, following a gay high school student who loves to paint. What is Our Colors about, and when and where does it take place? But writer / artist Gengoroh Tagame has taken this thought experiment one step further with Our Colors ( hardcover, Kindle) a new manga that, as he explains in the following email interview (translated by Anne Ishii), he wrote for teenage Gengoroh. When we get older, we are often asked - and ask ourselves - what we would say to our younger selves if we could.
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