(C9) [Yū Asagiri (Takano Yuriko) / OZ ] Oz Special Edition - Beautiful Boy Garuda Special Issue (1978)

(C9) [Yū Asagiri (Takano Yuriko) / OZ ] Oz Special Edition - Beautiful Boy Garuda Special Issue (1978)
(C9) [あさぎり夕 (高野 夕里子) / OZ] 増刊OZ美少年ガルーダ特集号 (1978) 昭和 53 年

One of the rarest doujins I own, me and my collaborator Kamoogy wanted to archive this early work by the mangaka Yu Asagiri (あさぎり夕), the penname of Takano Yuriko (高野 夕里子). This doujinshi was self published and was Yu's personal magazine, also known as 'Oz'. Published and sold during Comiket 9, this book focuses on Yu's special love for Mecha and SF anime, primarily her original crossover works featuring Garuda from Tadao Nagahama's Combattler V. Several BL themes are highly evident in this book, and while Yu enjoyed a fruitful career as a well published Shoujo mangaka for Kodansha, Yu shocked her peers and fans alike by switching back over to BL works in the 1990s. Yu passed away in 2018 from an aggressive form of pneumonia, so we are both happy to present a rare, never before archived piece of a phenomenal artists' life and work.

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Additional context:

This book, as well as a few manuscripts in relation to it, were shown at the Meiji University Yonezawa Yoshihiro Memorial Library and Contemporary Manga Library during a small retrospective Asagiri Yu: The Beginnings of BL. Yu's involvement as a self published and often times self funded author at Comiket produced some of the most beautiful manuscripts that both inspired and drew fans in, primarily in that they were all beyond industry standard.

The lilac/lavender cover was a quiet connotation to the queer/gay themes in the text. Me and Kamoogy acquired another text where Yu contributes her first BL parody work while with the Tokyo Kasei University Manga Research Society, of which she was an alum.

Exhibition information:
https://sfumart.com/column/13071/

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