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Manga on a salary man who is expecting retirement but out of nowhere assigned to a CEO of a BL publishing company. *BL means (mostly) manga(comics) dealing with love affairs between male characters. He has to deal with women-only employees and explicit BL manga. But he tries to blend in anyhow. The whole story evolves a little bit different than I expected. I expect he would find it hard to be accustomed to BL itself but mostly he finds it hard to blend in all-women staffs, especially who have very clear views on BL manga and are very confident. They say that this manga is loosely based on a real story.

Garouzuki (ガロウ好き) is a Japanese Bara artist. And I love his art. *At first I thougt his penname is pronounced as " Garousuki ", but it is " Garouzuki ." Garou means a wolf, suki means "love-it." *Here, it is sounded as " zuki ." He sells some of his works under the name, Oyajijigumi (オヤジジ組), which I suppose is the name of the group which he belongs to. As you can see, he is very talented in drawing daddies. Oya means parent(s) and Oyaji is used when you refer your own father to others. Jiji means grandfather and Gumi means a club or a group. So I guess Oyajijigumi means a father-grandfather club or something, though I can be sure.

Korean "openly-gay" filmmaker, Gwang-su Kim-jo married his parter, Seung-whan Kim on 7th of September, 2013. For several days, the wedding was one of the most-frequently-searched key words on the net. They told they would submit the legal document as a marriage and conduct further steps like starting legal claims for equal rights to get married. Wow. I hope this would be one small step to lead a grand finale.

The title, Tada Ima Koujichuu , means 'under construction.' Several years ago I had a chance to read one of His works.  It was about two detectives on surveilance duty. They were watching gang members secertly. The thing they didn't expect to see was sex scene between gangs. Anyway the characters are were not typical handsome men but the story and the characters seemed so real. Recently I could get the writer's comic compilation, maybe the only compilation according to Wiki. 

Couples of months ago, a man standing in front of me wore a t-shirts with these pandas.

1st comic anthology by Puu suke Kuma da. Kuma means a bear and Puu sounds like one of the most famous bears in the world, Winnie the Pooh. He has published his comic strips through Japanes gay magazines for years till now. And this is the 1st comic anthology. (After this book, he released two more anothologies.) This book is out of print in many Japanese bookstores, but luckily I could purchase new book recently. The unfortunate thing is that I can't read Japanese that well to enjoy this comic 100 %.

I visit Seoul LGBT Film Festival almost annually. This year I visited for a film on the first openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson, Love Free or Die . I found him very familiar not knowing why. Couples of days later, I watched another documentary on Christianity and sexual minorities, For the Bible Tells Me So , to find that Robinson is one of the main characters.  I watched the latter years ago, which is why I found Robinson familiar but didn't remember where I had seen him.