Spinoff Vol.1 "Books and Movies" | Fuyuki Kanai (illustrator and comic writer), Mitsuhiro Kumagai (the owner of twililight), Yuri Abo (editer)

Fuyuki Kanai (illustrator and comic writer)

Born in Nagano Prefecture in 1988. While working as an illustrator and comic writer, he creates text works such as essays and zine that summarizes them. His main works include paintings of Kate Zambreno, Heroins translated by Atsuko Nishiyama, illustrations of Rebecca Brown, and "Zepett" translated by Motoyuki Shibata. His collection of works includes "LONG WAY HOME" and "Prayer that reaches slowly".
Instagram（@fuyuki_kanai）

Movie "Tangerin" | Director of Sean Baker

© 2015 TANGERINE FILMS, LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

When you open up being a sexual minority, you may feel as if you are only asking for a topic about it, and you may feel stuffy. It's thankful to have the opportunity to speak, and if someone gets something in their own remarks, it's good, but it's not all of you, and it can be a delicate topic, so I need to answer with a serious attitude. Why are you talking so much attention? Don't you have any other topic? I'm tired.

The protagonist of this film is two transgender women who have sex work in LA. It is good enough just because the exchange of their conversations is so great that you can laugh anyway. It tends to be combined with LGBTQ+, but each person lives desperately crying and laughing in this way in this way. You don't have to behave properly! I feel like I've got the courage.

On the other hand, he is transgender who has never experienced, but his struggles and racial discrimination are vividly depicted, and there is a possibility that he has lived without knowing it even a pleasantly "devil" vocabulary. It is a thick work that makes you think about how they come and the situation in Japan.　　——　Fuyuki Kanai



"Tangerin,"
Using three smartphones, he depicted the friendship and love of transgender women in real and pop. The transgender women I met during my research were appointed as actors. I'm numbled by an exhilarating machine gun talk and exquisite interaction, and everyone will be sloppy in the form of a lovely and beautiful friendship that will finally be awaited.

Production in 2015/88 minutes/United States
© 2015 TANGERINE FILMS, LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Popular DVDs are on sale and digital distribution
Source: Midship

Book "On the Knife Cutting" | Translated by Sachie Watanabe by David Voinalovich

I imagined that many young people are reading this, and then I thought this book should be recommended. Of course, it is a book that I would like to recommend to everyone who lives in a chaotic era, regardless of age.

The author, Voinalovich, worked as an artist in the United States during the AIDS disaster, leaving works in various forms such as photographs and paintings, and he himself died of AIDS. If you read his words in this book, you can see that it was a time when political problems were exposed through HIV, which was a fatal virus at the time. In recent years, I feel that American hegemony is shaking or that the problem is being shown to be revealed, isn't it time to read?

It is said that this world is for "the heterosexual combining a brain-daughter exposed to the sun and a bikini girl on the beach" projected on the "fake moral screen", and there is nothing to lose before death, The heart trembles from the core with angry words expressing that they fight their hands, teeth, all muscles and blood against weapons. It was a reading experience that realized that the expression of anger had an important meaning.　　——　Fuyuki Kanai



"With the knife edge,"
David Voynalovich, a street genius artist who died at the age of 37 due to the complications of AIDS in 1992. A true book that cuts out the United States that suffers from the malignant virus through the frame of death. The leaves of roaring words, the image of running endlessly. The edge of excessive sensitivity makes you laugh at unscrupulous sensibility.
※Currently out of print 1995/DyX Publishing

Mitsuhiro Kumagai (owner of twililight)

He runs a bookstore, gallery and cafe "twililight" in Sangen-jaya. As a publisher, he has published Hiroko Oyamada's "Frog Frog", Yumiko Kikuchi's "Days to Make the Dawn", Kiyoka Osaki's "Private Driving Diary". He also organizes events, selects, and writes to expand the opportunities for encounters with books. So far, "SHIPS HAPPY HOLIDAYS" selection, Shibuya PARCO "Aito Aimai" selection & store opening, LUSH "BATHING & POETRY" selection & interaction etc. I like time to vague on the rooftop.
Instagram（@twililight_）（@kumagai_mistu）

Book "Living Performance" | Written by Ryohei Machiya

When you are paralyzing your heart in the unreasonable society or politics that are chased by time and information, you feel that you are living only in the evaluation of others. Read the air and perform. Gradually, I don't know whether it's acting or my own will, and I want to live well according to society. But do you feel that you are living there? Wouldn't it someday explode what you let go of according to society?

What do you mean? I think it's important to think about it. Why did you have to paralyze your mind? Where did you feel uncomfortable? Despite the fact that the world is full of invisible and accidental nature, is it perceived by fiction that forced a causal relationship? Don't you lean on the correctness of hearing?

I don't know myself, correctness and normal, so I don't go right and left and go forward. Isn't that confusion a deterrent to violence and war?

I think about such a thing while following the mind and body of Ikuzaki and Sasaoka, two high school students who appear in Ryohei Machiya's "Living Performance". "I" is not made by myself. The existence of "I" begins for the first time by recognizing the existence of others. Machiya's long novels always give me time to think and update me.　　——　Mitsuhiro Kumagai



"Living Performance"
Former "genius" child role Ikuzaki who hid his true heart, and Sasaoka, an "flame-based" actor who cannot read the air. The character is the opposite, but in the same way the country hates parents, curses family, and "take care of the family" cannot forgive. The serious stage played in cultural festival by the two who played each other's true intentions was the tragedy of war. The highest point of achievement by the Akutagawa Prize-winning author.
2024/ Kawade Shobo Shinsha

Movie "All of Dawn" | Director Miyake Chou

© Maiko Seo / 2024 “All Dawn” Production Committee

Maiko Seo's novel into a movie. When making a movie, settings that are not in the original work have been added, and it seems very interesting to see the parts that the director values there.

For example, what has been added is a grief care scene. Time to mourn an important person who died suddenly will surely create imagination and kindness for others. Therefore, Kurita Science, run by the president who participates in Grief Care, can casually care and help each other who develop panic disorder and premenopausal syndrome during work. Knowing each other's situations where the environment can not be helped by the two protagonists, even if their symptoms are not improved, they will be able to help others. I think it would be nice to be there.

I think the difference between novels and movies is that a living person acts, but what is acting? The acting of the actors was natural enough to think again. Ryohei Machiya The movie realizes the situation in which the protagonist says, "You don't have to forcibly make yourself interesting, just stay there normally." It means that I am just there when I met you. It was my first experience that I felt like I was told by the movie that I could just stay there after the end roll.　　——　Mitsuhiro Kumagai



"All of the Dawn,"
It depicts Mr. Fujisawa, whose life and human relationships do not go well with PMS (premenstrual syndrome), and Mr. Yamazoe-kun's "dawn" who decided to let go of a smooth sailing life due to panic disorder. They were not close to each other, but at a certain opportunity they knew what they had—a small but irreplaceable story illuminates a solid connection. It's open to the public.

Production in 2024/119 minutes/Japan
© Maiko Seo / 2024 “All Dawn” Production Committee
Distribution Bandai Namco Film Works = Asmik Ace, Inc.

Yuri Abo (Editor)

Born in Tokyo. As an editor and producer, he has been involved in corporate advertising and creative production, and has been involved in gender since the launch of the magazine "IWAKAN Magazine". Podcast show "IWAKAN!" Distribution, essay contributions to magazines and literary magazines, etc.
Instagram（@abokabo）

Comic "International Diary" | By Tomoko Yamashita

Every time I was prefaced, "I'm not you, so I can't sympathize with you," I feel lonely, frustrated, and why don't you try to understand? And he was relentless. This work is a prescription that relieves the strong stereotype of "being not sympathetic is lonely."

The story is based on the premise that it can't be understood, and a novelist who loves loneliness, Makio, and a niece, Asa, a innocent high school student, collides and discusses each other's differences through living together. Draw a warm and sincere figure that I can't understand but snuggles up. The people around me also have different values, and they cross each other with each other's wounds and discomfort with society. There are a number of scenes that leave an impression, but "Is it a man? I really like the scene where Makio answers the morning question, "Juno is Juno" and "I'm a guy who wants to be myself."

In a world full of empathy, is empathy "kindness" or "easyness"? It doesn't escape to the ease of sympathizing with instants, but realizes the importance of dealing with the other person in front of you seriously.　　——　Lily abo



"International Diary"
Makio Takadai (35) decided not to overlook the orphan's morning (15) being left over relatives at the funeral of his sister and wife, but to take it up with momentum. However, the next day, I returned to myself, and my own shyness was activated. On the other hand, in the morning, we take life with Makio, an "adult who is not adult" without shyness. Different story of the year when a clumsy man and a niece like a puppy live.
2017/Shodensha

Book "Business Game Women's Way of Work That Nobody Tells" | Keiko Fukuzawa Etsuko Mizunoya / Co-translation (Kobunsha Wisdom Forest Bunko) by Betty L. Haragan

A valuable guide with scales from the eyes, drawn to the band of "Jane Sue's acclaim!" I thought that if I worked hard, I would be rewarded, and after reading, I cried out "Uri squid!"

This book defines "business is a game" and conveys the rules and secrets to survive in corporate society to women. For example, in Chapter 2, "A company is an army," he explains that men are accustomed to "military" environments such as team sports and toys given, while women grow up without rules in order to receive "feminin" education. In the text, "Don't go against my boss (clearer)" may be rugged, but if you read it, you will understand the reason. Please be assured that you are not forced to masculinate or obedience to your organization.

At the same time, the interesting part of this book is that it reveals the incompatibility of inconsistentness within me. What do you think this is a universal rule?　Do you choose this game?　While being convinced of the existence of the rules, I want to talk to someone about the conviction and discomfort after reading. Anyway, if someone who doesn't pay for some reason even if they work hard, can deepen their confidence that they can choose their own career.　　——　Lily abo



"Business Game Women's Way of Work That Nobody Tells me"
Defined as "Business is a game", and in order for women to know the basic rules of the game and to reach their goals as a smart player, how to handle daily work, how to think about money, human relationships, and other secrets to survive in society. The "Bible for Working Women" has become a bestseller of over one million copies in the United States.
2009/Kobunsha Wisdom Forest Bunko