After I did my review of My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, people asked me if I was planning on reading My Brother's Husband. Little did they know I had already ordered it and was waiting impatiently for it.
Warned to have tissues handy, I prepared myself for a wild ride.
I have to say that after reading My Lesbian Experience, My Brother's Husband was tame in comparison. I got teary, but never wept.
I was thankful for this, in the end.
My Brother's Husband is about a family whose lives are turned upside down when Yaichi and his daughter Kana are introduced to a large Canadian man named Mike who shows up at their door in Japan one day claiming to be Yaichi's twin brother's husband.
Ryoji, Yaichi's twin, has passed away recently, and Mike has no family other than his brother in law and his niece.
So, the family tries to get to know each other.
What results is a charming and painful look at cultural differences and their views on homophobia and how it is handled, both by the locals, and by Yaichi himself, coming to terms with the idea of his brother being gay, and how much Mike really loved Ryoji.
I was surprised, honestly, to read such a family friendly comic by artist Gengoroh Tagame, who usually does books like this. It was refreshing, and Kana, the daughter, was a delight, explaining simple things to her father with the innocence of a child. Why do these men kiss each other? Because they're in love. It's simple.
The volume that I purchased contains volumes 1 and 2 of the manga, and it came out in May 2017. I've scoured the internet wondering when the second half will be out, but I can't find any information regarding that.
Still, I will keep my eyes open for it, because the volume I read was an absolute delight. Check it out if you get the chance!
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