A review by jaw417
My Brother's Husband: Volume 2 by Gengoroh Tagame
4.0
(Copied from my review for volume 1.)
Yaichi is a work-from-home, more or less single father in Japan, and he doesn't quite know what to do when Mike shows up on his doorstep. Mike was married to Yaichi's twin brother, whom Yaichi had been estranged from and had built a life with Mike in Canada. Sadly, Yaichi's brother recently passed away, and now Mike is here to see the home his husband always wanted to show him.
This managa (and its predecessor) look at the cultural treatment of homosexuality in Japan, and the ways in which families can internalize its biases. In watching his young daughter fall head over heals with Mike (her Canadian uncle!!), Yaichi is forced to confront his own prejudices and the ways in which they created distance between himself and his brother. The story touches on grief in a couple different circumstances, and the quiet process of owning, confronting, and trying to reprogram our beliefs about other people. And of course, it also looks at family and how they don't always look the way we expect them too.
Yaichi is a work-from-home, more or less single father in Japan, and he doesn't quite know what to do when Mike shows up on his doorstep. Mike was married to Yaichi's twin brother, whom Yaichi had been estranged from and had built a life with Mike in Canada. Sadly, Yaichi's brother recently passed away, and now Mike is here to see the home his husband always wanted to show him.
This managa (and its predecessor) look at the cultural treatment of homosexuality in Japan, and the ways in which families can internalize its biases. In watching his young daughter fall head over heals with Mike (her Canadian uncle!!), Yaichi is forced to confront his own prejudices and the ways in which they created distance between himself and his brother. The story touches on grief in a couple different circumstances, and the quiet process of owning, confronting, and trying to reprogram our beliefs about other people. And of course, it also looks at family and how they don't always look the way we expect them too.