Amamiya paid a high price for his freedom of identity, and when a figure from his past suddenly appears, the situation becomes a vivid example of just how complicated life can be. Amamiya counsels him about how to deal with who he is. A mentorship and platonic friendship ensues, as Sora comes out to him and agrees to paint a mural in the shop, and Mr. Amamiya, a middle-aged gentleman who is the owner and proprietor of a local coffee shop, and who is completely, unapologetically out as a gay man. Sora’s world changes forever when he meets Mr. His best friend and childhood confidante is Nao, a young woman whom everyone thinks is (or should be) his girlfriend, and it would be the easiest thing to play along-she knows he is gay but knows, too, how difficult it is to live one’s truth in his situation. He wants to live honestly as a young gay man in high school, but that is still not acceptable in Japanese society. Set in contemporary suburban Japan, Our Colors is the story of Sora Itoda: a sixteen-year-old aspiring painter who experiences his world in synesthetic hues of blues and reds, and is governed by the emotional turbulence of being a teenager. Futabasha published the manga’s third and final compiled book volume in September 2020. Tagame launched the manga in Futabasha‘s Monthly Action magazine in March 2018, and ended it in May 2020. Translator Anne Ishii had revealed on the Manga Mavericks podcast in November 2020 that Pantheon Books would release the series.

Publisher Pantheon Books confirmed with ANN on Tuesday that it will release Gengoroh Tagame‘s Our Colors ( Bokura no Shikisai) manga in English on in one omnibus hardcover volume.

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