Akata Publishing has just announced the digital release of the first chapter of If We Were Adults. New work by the prolific mangaka Takako Shimura.
Ayano is a primary school teacher. One evening, after a long day of meetings with the students' parents, she decides to take a detour before returning home. In the small bar-restaurant she likes to frequent, she meets Akari. Between them, the current passes very quickly… Under the influence of alcohol, the two women end up kissing. But Ayano is not as free as she lets on…
Highly anticipated in France after her success Blue Flowers, Takako Shimura returns with her latest manga. If We Were Adults features two women who fall in love with each other. The first chapter is already available on the usual digital platforms. Known for drawing bittersweet works featuring many LGBT characters, this is the first time Takako Shimura has offered an "adult yuri". Far from fantasies, far from any fetishization, she signs with Si Nous était adultes a contemporary work, continuing to scrutinize with finesse, as close as possible to the intimate, the doubts and wanderings of its protagonists. The paper version is planned for 2021.
