Specifically, I'd argue that a big part of the appeal of setting the comic at a boys' school is that it allows male, European characters to be objectified, just as Asian women often are in Western fiction. I don't disagree with Thorn's analysis of Hagio's motivations, but I think it's worth thinking a bit more about why and how it's important for the characters in Heart of Thomas to be Other, and why that would be something women respond to. Hagio actually initially tried to set the story in a girls' boarding school-but found that she ended up wanting to make the action, as Thorn says, too "realistic and plausible." The result was, in Hagio's words, "sort of giggly." Thorn concludes that "It was important that the characters be Other in order for Hagio to explore the themes, some quite abstract, that she wanted to explore." But Thorn also suggests that there were formal and thematic reasons for the choice. One is historical Hagio was directly inspired by the tragic romanticism of Jean Delannoy's 1964 film Les amities particuliéres, about two boys who fall in love at a boarding school. In his introduction to Fantagraphics new (and first official English) translation of Heart of Thomas, Matt Thorn offers a couple of explanations. The first story in the genre had just been published in 1971 by Hagio's roommate, Keiko Takemiya.įor mainstream American audiences, of course, the genre remains unfamiliar-and as such, it tends to provoke a certain amount of befuddlement. In 1974, though, when Hagio began serializing Heart of Thomas, boys' love was experimental and even in some sense avant garde.
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Today in Japan, the genre is well established and popular, with hit series including Gravitation (with half a million copies sold, and that's not counting the anime adaptation) and Antique Bakery (which spun off into an anime series, a live-action TV drama, and a live-action Korean movie).
Boys' love manga are manga that feature male homosexual romance, written (mostly) by women, (mostly) for women. The Heart of Thomas is, in fact, one of the seminal works in the boys' love subgenre of shojo manga (manga for girls). In case the implications aren't clear, that means that all the characters are boys, and all the romances are gay. Hagio's story is set in a German boarding school. There is one thing, though, that definitively and obviously sets Heart of Thomas apart from daytime serials. There are hyperbolically unrequited crushes, stolen kisses, vertiginous swoons, shocking secrets revealed, tragic death after tragic death till the protagonists can barely emote their way around all the beautiful corpses-and even, at the center of the plot, an improbable pair of distantly-related doubles, whose identical features spurn the dry touch of genetics for the sweeping caress of melodrama.
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it's so full of dramas, up to the point im pretty sure i wont search for any drama for a while.At first glance, Moto Hagio's classic Japanese manga (or comic) The Heart of Thomas looks suspiciously like a serialized soap opera. And tbh i'll only just recommend this if u're searching for some ✨dramas✨ bcs well, i said it. Should you read this? Well, this manhwa is quite good. Usually im not happy if some characters just leave the scene and wont appear again if they finished their part. i wont talk abt them bcs IM JUST REALLY MAD AT THEM.
sometimes i wonder why his actions dont really match his personality, but oh well- oh! I quite like woojung too, his character is quite complicated but well- all i can say is im pretty satisfied by his character. I like sarang, he's soooo cute - and he has a reason to act like he does bcs his low self-esteem. But they're pretty likeable tho, and by the end of the story I JUST KEEP WANTING TO SEE THEM MORE. They're just your normal characters with a "set personality". Tbh the main characters' personality is just. I JUST NEED TO SEE THEM WEAR A DIFFERENT STYLE OF CLOTHES. i know i'm being too picky w this, but their clothes. But i dont really like the clothes choices. The coloring is pretty nice, but i must say that it's pretty simple. The art is beautiful! I really love how the artist drew their expressions, it's so cute. The plot is quite good but tbh too much dramas can be a turn off. But dont worry too much bcs of the complicated relationships, the only relationships u need to focus on is between the twins and jinwoo ?. Ngl, i'm a bit overwhelmed too at the start HAHAH. Wow, in a few chapters in the start, u can say that the author really has a talent to make a super complicated drama lol.