"Aito Ambigation" Spin-Off Vol.1 "Books and Movies"| Fuyuki Kanai (illustrator and comic writer), Mitsuhiro Kumagai (owner of twililight), Yuri Abo (editor)

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 painting by Kate Zambleno, painting by Atsuko Nishiyama, painting by Rebecca Brown, and illustrations of "Zepette" translated by Motoyuki Shibata. His works include "LONG WAY HOME" and "Slowly Reaching Prayer".
Instagram（@fuyuki_kanai）

The movie "Tangerine" | Director Sean Baker

© 2015 TANGERINE FILMS, LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

When you are open to being a sexual minority, you may feel like you are only asked to talk about it, and you may feel hard to breathe. It’s nice to have the opportunity to speak, and if someone gets something from their own words, it’s good, but it’s not all about you, and it can be a sensitive topic, so you need to respond with a serious attitude. Why are you talking so much? Do you have any other topic? I'm tired.

The main character of the film is two transgender women who have sex work in LA. I highly recommend it just because the exchange of their conversations is so great that they can laugh anyway. You tend to be bundled with LGBTQ+, but each and every one of them lives desperately crying and laughing in this way. You don't have to behave properly! I feel like I've got courage.

On the other hand, although I am a transgender who I have never experienced, the hardships and racism of the cause are vividly depicted, and it is possible that I have lived without knowing that a pleasantly "lower" vocabulary. It is a thick work that makes you think about how to come and the situation in Japan.　　——　Fuyuki Kanai



"Tangerine"
Using three smartphones, she portrayed the friendship and love of transgender women in real and pop. We hired transgender women we met during our research as actors. You will be numbed by an exquisite interaction with the exhilarating machine gun talk, and everyone will be thrilled in the form of the endless and beautiful friendship that awaits.

2015 Production / 88 minutes / United States
© 2015 TANGERINE FILMS, LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Popular DVD release & digital distribution
Source: Midship

Book "At the edge of the knife" | Sachie Watanabe by David Wojnarowicz

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 an age of confusion, regardless of age.

Voynarovich worked as an artist in the United States during the AIDS epidemic, and left various forms of photography and painting, and died of AIDS himself. If you read his words in this book, you can see that it was a time when political problems were exposed through HIV, a virus that was directly linked to death. I feel that America's hegemony is shaking, or that the problem is being shown to emerge, isn't it time to read?

The world is for "heterosexuals who combine sun-bathed brain bastard with a bikini girl on the beach" projected on the "false moral screen", and the heart trembles from the heart to the words of anger that expresses that there is nothing to lose before death, but fights their hands, teeth, all muscles and blood with weapons. It was a reading experience that made me realize that the expression of anger had an important meaning.　　——　Fuyuki Kanai



"At the end of the knife."
David Voynarovich, a street genius artist who died at the age of 37 due to the complications of AIDS in 1992. A book of truth that cut out the United States of malignant viruses through the frame of death. The leaves of roaring words, the image of running vertically and horizontally. The edge of excessive sensitivity is laughing at the wrong common sense.
※Currently out of print 1995 / Dyex Publishing

Mitsuhiro Kumagai (owner of twililight)

Runs a bookstore, gallery and cafe "twililight" in Sangen-jaya. As publishers, Hiroko Oyamada's "Frog Frog", Yumiko Kikuchi, "I'm going to make a lot of things", Kiyoka Osaki's "Private Driving Diary". In order to expand the place where you can meet books, we also plan events, select books, and write. To date, "SHIPS HAPPY HOLIDAYS" selection and opening of Shibuya PARCO "Aito Aimai" selection and opening of stores, LUSH "BATHING & POETRY" selection and interaction. I like the time spent on the roof.
Instagram（@twililight_）（@kumagai_mistu）

Book "Living Performance" | By Ryohei Machiya

When you are paralyzing your mind in the unreasonable society and politics that are chased by time and information, you feel like you are living only in the evaluation of others. I read the air and act. Gradually, I don't know whether it's acting or my own will, and I'll live well in accordance with society. But do you feel alive there? Will something that has been released in accordance with society will explode one day?

What is it? I think it's important to think about it. Why did you need to paralyze your heart? Where did you feel uncomfortable? The world is full of invisible things and coincidences, but aren't you aware of it by fiction that forced a causal relationship? Are you leaning on the rightness of hearing?

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

I think about such things while following the mind and body of two high school students, Ikuzaki and Sasaoka, who appear in Ryohei Machiya's "Living Performance". “I” is not made alone. The existence of "I" begins with the recognition of the existence of others. Machiya's long story always gives me time to think and updates me.　　——　Mitsuhiro Kumagai



"Living Performance"
Ikuzaki, a former "genius" child who hides his true heart, and Sasaoka, an actor who cannot read the air. The character is the opposite, but in the same way, this country that hates parents, curses families, and "take care of the family" cannot forgive. The real stage played by the two of them in cultural festival is the tragedy of war. The highest achievement of the masterpiece by the Akutagawa Prize writer.
2024: Kawade Shobo Shinsha

The movie “Everything in the Dawn.” Shocho Miyake (director)

© Maiko Seo / 2024 “Everything in the Dawn” Production Committee

Make a movie about Maiko Seo's novel. In the movie, settings that are not included in the original have been added, and it is very interesting to see the parts that the director values there.

For example, it has been added to the Greef Care scene. The time to mourn the loved one who suddenly died will surely create imagination and kindness for others. Therefore, the people of Kurita Science, run by the president who participates in Greef Care, can casually care and help two people who develop panic disorder and PMS (premenstrual syndrome) while working. I think that the environment can help the other person even if their symptoms do not improve by knowing each other's situations, even if they do not improve themselves. I go. I think I should be at will.

I think the difference between a novel and a movie is that a living person acts, but what is acting? As I thought again, the acting of the actors was natural. This movie realizes the situation in which the protagonist says in Ryohei Machiya's "Living Performance" that "You don't have to forcibly make yourself interesting, just be there normally." It means that I have met you and I am just there. It was my first experience that I felt like I was told by the movie because the endroll was over and I could just be there normally.　　——　Mitsuhiro Kumagai



“All of the Dawn.”
It depicts Mr. Fujisawa, whose life and human relationships are not good due to PMS (premenstrual syndrome), and Mr. Yamazoe-kun's "dawn" who has decided to let go of a smooth life due to panic disorder. The two had an intimate relationship, but at a certain point they knew what they had -- an irreplaceable story that illuminates a small but reliable connection. It's a big hit.

2024 Production / 119 minutes / Japan
© Maiko Seo / 2024 “Everything in the Dawn” Production Committee
Distribution Bandai Namco Filmworks-Asmik Ace, Inc.

Yuri Abo (Editor)

Born in Tokyo. As an editor and producer, he is involved in corporate advertising and creative production, and also disseminates gender in the wake of the launch of IWAKAN Magazine magazine. The podcast program "IWAKAN!" Distribution and essay contributions to magazines and literary magazines.
Instagram（@abokabo）

Comic "Diary of Foreign Affairs"| By Tomoko Yamashita

"I'm not you, so I can't sympathize with you," I'm lonely, irritated, and why don't you try to find out? And he became innocent. This work is a prescription that relaxs the intense stereotype of "not being sympathized is lonely."

The story is based on the premise that it is incomprehensible, and the aunt Makio, a novelist who loves loneliness, and the niece of a innocent high school student, morning (Asa), face each other's differences through living together. Draw a warm and sincere appearance that I can't understand but snuggle up. The people around us also have different values, and they cross with each other while having a wound in their hearts and discomfort with society. There are many scenes that are impressive, but "Is Juno a man? I like the scene where Makio answers the morning question, "Juno is Juno" and "I'm a person who is fighting to be myself."

In a world full of empathy, is empathy “kindness” or “easy”? It does not escape to the ease of empathy with instant, but makes you realize the importance of facing the opponent in front of you seriously.　　——　Lily abo



"Daikoku Nikki"
Makio Takashiro, 35, decided not to miss the orphan's morning (15), who was left behind at the funeral of his sister and wife, but to take it up with momentum. But the next day, he returned to me, and his acquaintance was activated. On the other hand, in the morning, we take a rare and obedient life with Makio, an "adult who is not an adult" without acquaintance. A tale of the year in which a clumsy man and a niece like a puppy are born.
2017 / Shodensha

Book “Business Game Nobody Tells You How Women Work” Etsuko Mizunoya, Keiko Fukuzawa by Betty L. Haragan / Co-translated (Kobunsha Wisdom Forest Library)

A valuable guide from eyes to scales, attracted to the belt of "Jane Sioux!" I thought that if I worked hard, I would be rewarded, and after reading, I cried out, "Yurika!"

This book defines "business is a game" and tells women the rules and secrets to survive in the corporate society. For example, in Chapter 2, “Company is an Army,” we explain that while men get used to “military” environments such as team sports and toys given, women grow up inexperienced with rules in order to receive a “feminin” education. You may be frightened by the fact that you should never disagree with your boss, but if you read it, you will understand why. Please be assured that you are not forced to masculinize or submit to your organization.

At the same time, the interesting part of this book is that you are exposed to the incompatibility of yourself. What if this is a universal rule?　Do you choose this game?　While convincing the existence of the rules, I want to talk to someone about the conviction and discomfort after reading. In any case, if people who work hard and are not rewarded for some reason can deepen their confidence that they can choose their careers.　　——　Lily abo



“Business Game Nobody Tells You How Women Work”
In order for women to work, learn about the basic rules of the game and reach their goals as a smart player, communicate how to do daily work, how to think about money, relationships, and other secrets to survive in corporate society. “The Bible for Working Women” has become a bestselling book in the United States.
2009: Kobunsha Wisdom Forest Bunko