Akira Honma
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Akira Honma is a Japanese
manga artist
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Honma's first manga work was The Judged a yaoi
manga about Kyou Sugiura, a Public prosecutor who is pursuing an investigation of government corruption involving a young parliamentarian named Tatsuki Toudou. The meeting between the two ambitious young men results in an unintended consequence
that neither had been prepared for. In this standoff between the enforcer and the lawmaker, there is a past that binds them together, and only they can decide the outcome of this duel.
Last Portrait is her second manga.
) (2004 Shinkosha) (2005 Shinkosha) (2006 English edition, DramaQueen) (2006 Shinkosha) (2009 Shinkosha)
Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
manga artist
Mangaka
is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...
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Honma's first manga work was The Judged a yaoi
Yaoi
In careful Japanese enunciation, all three vowels are pronounced separately, for a three-mora word, . The English equivalent is . also known as Boys' Love, is a Japanese popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male relationships, usually created by...
manga about Kyou Sugiura, a Public prosecutor who is pursuing an investigation of government corruption involving a young parliamentarian named Tatsuki Toudou. The meeting between the two ambitious young men results in an unintended consequence
Unintended consequence
In the social sciences, unintended consequences are outcomes that are not the outcomes intended by a purposeful action. The concept has long existed but was named and popularised in the 20th century by American sociologist Robert K. Merton...
that neither had been prepared for. In this standoff between the enforcer and the lawmaker, there is a past that binds them together, and only they can decide the outcome of this duel.
Last Portrait is her second manga.
Manga
(2003 Shinkosha) (2006 English edition, DramaQueenDramaQueen
DramaQueen is a Houston based English-language publisher of domestic, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese comics founded in 2005. DramaQueen also publishes an original English-language yaoi anthology called Rush, which made its debut in 2006. RUSH ceased publishing when the company experienced...
) (2004 Shinkosha) (2005 Shinkosha) (2006 English edition, DramaQueen) (2006 Shinkosha) (2009 Shinkosha)