Our Colors

Our Colors (Japanese: 僕らの色彩, Hepburn: Bokura no Shikisai) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gengoroh Tagame. It was serialized in Futabasha's Monthly Action magazine from March 2018 to May 2020 and collected into three tankōbon volumes. Our Colors is Tagame's second manga for general audiences, following his 2014 series My Brother's Husband.

Our Colors
Cover of the first collected edition
僕らの色彩
(Bokura no Shikisai)
GenreDrama
Manga
Written byGengoroh Tagame
Published byFutabasha
MagazineMonthly Action
DemographicSeinen
Original runMarch 24, 2018 (2018-03-24) – May 25, 2020 (2020-05-25)
Volumes3

Synopsis

Sora Itoda, a closeted second-year high school student, is alienated by the homophobia of his peers and the pressures of needing to pass as straight. One day, Sora meets an older man who runs a cafe, and learns that the man is also gay. The series follows the intergenerational friendship that forms between Sora and the man, and the mentorship the man provides Sora on the problems he is facing.

Production

Series creator Gengoroh Tagame, a manga artist famously known for creating hardcore BDSM gay manga,[1] began creating all-ages material in 2014 with his manga series My Brother's Husband. Tagame has stated that the experience of creating My Brother's Husband made him "realize how much fun [all-ages manga] is to draw," saying that balancing the creation of erotic works with the simultaneous creation of all-ages works was "very healthy for me, mentally."[2]

Our Colors is Tagame's second all-ages work following My Brother's Husband.[1] Tagame stated that the series was inspired by his desire to create a story about gay characters that was not centrally focused on romance or sex; further, he wished to create a story that focused on a gay protagonist, in contrast to the straight protagonist of My Brother's Husband.[3]

Release

Our Colors was announced in February 2018 by publisher Futabasha in the manga magazine Monthly Action, and began serialization in Monthly Action on March 24, 2018.[4][5] Its final chapter was published in the July issue of Monthly Action on May 25, 2020.[6] The series has been collected into three tankōbon volumes published by Futabasha. Internationally, the series is published in France as Our Colorful Days by Akata Éditions.[7]

No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN
1 January 12, 2019[8]978-4-575-85255-4
2 October 11, 2019[9]978-4-575-85360-5
3 September 12, 2020[10]978-4-575-85490-9

References
  1. Loveridge, Lynzee (7 January 2019). "Eisner Winning Manga Creator Gengoroh Tagame Laments End of Adult Gay Manga Mags". Anime News Network. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  2. Kolbeins, Graham (5 June 2017). Queer Japan: Gengoroh Tagame Clip. Queer Japan (Video clip). Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  3. Matsuoka, Muneoka (26 February 2018). "「マイク役を探すのは絶対無理だろうと思っていた」田亀源五郎さんとNHKプロデューサーが語る「弟の夫」ドラマ化の裏話". HuffPost (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  4. Hodgkins, Crystalyn (23 February 2018). "Gengoroh Tagame Launches Bokura no Shikisai Manga on March 24". Anime News Network. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  5. Tagame, Gengoroh (1 April 2018). "New manga for all ages, Bokura No Shikisai (Our Colors) started on Monthly Action". Tagame's News in English. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  6. Pineda, Antonio Rafael (25 May 2020). "Gengoroh Tagame's Bokura no Shikisai Manga Ends". Anime News Network. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  7. "Our Colorful Days". Akata Éditions. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  8. 僕らの色彩 1. Futabasha (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  9. 僕らの色彩 2. Futabasha (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  10. 僕らの色彩 3 完. Futabasha (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 September 2020.
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