#Nagata Kabi

[resetmyfeelings]

#my wandering warrior existence #nagata kabi

[aiku]

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi

#reading this sometimes felt like looking into a mirror #a lot of her thoughts/feelings are so relatable #;w; #so. compiling some of my fav panels here #my lesbian experience with loneliness #nagata kabi #mangacap #mine #it's 2am goodnight #Sabishisugite Rezu Fuzoku ni Ikimashita Report

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My Solo Exchange Diary | Hitori Koukan Nikki by Nagata Kabi - Chapter 2

#My Solo Exchange Diary #Hitori Koukan Nikki #Nagata Kabi #mysoloexchangediaryedit #josei #yuri #manga #mymanga #vixmanga #manga cap #mangaedit #anisource #animanga #monochrome #black and white #B&W

[yourdailyqueer]

Nagata Kabi

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 28 May 1987

Ethnicity: Japanese

Occupation: Writer, manga artist

#Nagata Kabi #lesbianism #qpoc #lgbt #wlw #female #lesbian #1987 #asian #poc #japanese #writer #artist #graphic artist #popular #popular post

[homunyas]

#rereading this was a good idea #i really want to read her other books but having this physical hits different. gotta remember to order them soon its been years #txt #nagata kabi

[yurimother]

Kabi Nagata's Autobiographical Manga 'My Pancreas Broke, But Life Got Better' Licensed; Special Edition of 'My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness Announced'

On Tuesday, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that it has licensed My Pancreas Broke, But My Life Got Better (Suizou ga Kowaretara, Sukoshi Iki Yasuku Narimashita), the latest autobiographical manga from Kabi Nagata, author of the Harvey-Award winning My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness. The manga will be released in English digitally and in paperback editions in November 2023.

The publisher describes the manga:

In this new autobiographical manga following My Wandering Warrior Existence, Nagata Kabi has quit drinking in an attempt to get healthier–or she’s trying to, anyway. Her former struggles with alcohol led to pancreatitis and a serious hospitalization, and now she has no choice but to give it up. Follow the author as she details the quest to improve her health during a global pandemic.

In addition to the licensing announcement, Seven Seas also unveiled a new special edition of Nagata's original breakout manga, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness. The new release will be a single hardcover edition that features new cover art and a new bonus chapter. A digital version will also be available. It will also be published in November 2023.

Kabi Nagata is a Japanese mangaka known for her powerful and raw autobiographical manga series. She originally posted her manga online on Pixiv where it went viral and was revised and published in Japanese print in 2016 by East Press and in English by Seven Seas. The manga received critical acclaim, winning the 2017 Harvey Award for best manga of 2018. Subsequent volumes, My Solo Exchange Diary Volumes 1 and 2, My Alcoholic Escape from Reality, and My Wandering Warrior Existence, received similar acclaim.

#yuri #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtq+ #manga #lesbian #lesbians #girls love #gay #gl #girls' love #anime #my lesbian experience with loneliness #nagata kabi #kabi nagata

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#manga #nagata kabi #my lesbian experience with loneliness

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If you are in your 20s or early 30s and are still trying to figure out your life and feel like you can't be an adult/function within society, can I please recommend Nagata Kabi's memoirs????? She's a manga artist who nearly exclusively writes/draws about her own life, and her struggles with utterly crippling anxiety and depression, and her fight to become an adult that she can love!

I have been BINGEING them these past few days, and I feel like I have learned so much about myself!!!! The author is so vulnerable and honest about herself (even about nsfw things), and while there is a focus on her hardships, the things that she's learned I feel like can be quite useful to people who are still trying to figure things out!

There are some serious CWs for eating disorders, suicidal thoughts, and alcoholism (and also sexual assault if you read her 5th memoir, but the author is kind enough to tell you what page to skip to if you don't want to read it).

I've been dealing with the fact that I've just turned 26 and I still live with my parents, have a part time job, and quite frankly have no romantic prospects-- but in spite of how hard some of the topics she writes about are, I cannot begin to tell you how hopeful these books have made me feel.

So... I just wanted to share in case someone out there might need something like this right now!

Image below is the cover of the first book-- be warned, the paperback and ebook versions of this same book's cover are more on the nsfw side, so be careful looking it up at work lol. Also while she is a lesbian, I feel like these things can apply to folks of any gender or sexuality!

#Nagata Kabi #Adulting #Life advice #idk what tags to add to this sort of thing #it has just really been helping me so I guess if it can help litterally anyone else I wanted to get a conversation about it going

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making personal, emotionally vulnerable art is really <3 <3 <3

#my alcoholic escape from reality #nagata kabi #my lesbian experience with loneliness

[tchia]

and we all cheered 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

#my lesbian experience with loneliness #nagata kabi #animanga #❤️ #les #first reblog was literally a radf*m so imma just turn reblogs off #not dealing with you ppl

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#my wandering warrior existence #nagata kabi

[dropintomanga]

Sometimes, Mental Health Pros Suck - On ANN's Pulled Nagata Kabi Review

So I heard something controversial happened in the world of manga reviews. And it quite happens to revolve around a manga figure a lot of people know too well - Nagata Kabi.

Nagata's latest release in the U.S., My Pancreas Broke, But My Life Got Better, was reviewed by Anime News Network. While I normally find their reviews of manga to be fine, something about this one ticked off A LOT of people on social media. Then I heard it got pulled off the website a few days after it was published, but I later found it via Archive.org.

So I read what the review was like and there's a few points that came to my mind.

First, I can see why people were saying the reviewer, who is an actual mental health professional, was condescending towards Nagata's experiences. Throughout all of her works, Nagata always seems to be going through something. It can make someone think that she's not trying hard enough, especially if you're a professional whose job is to help people like Nagata.

Second, the reviewer expressed frustration over Nagata not getting better. Maybe some of the frustration is warranted, but the thing is the reviewer doesn't really know, know Nagata. They're only getting a glimpse of Nagata's personality through her works. While the works do provide a clear and often heavy picture of her life so far, I don't think they tell the whole story. I remember Nagata saying she struggles with how she portrays herself in her memoir manga compared to how she is in person. There's always multiple layers to a person.

Lastly, I know people are saying "How dare they call themselves a mental health pro if they are acting like an insensitive prick." My response to that is because psychiatry/psychology has become a conflict-riddled field where some professionals turn out to be pricks. They are taught a very Western way of thinking in that the individual has no one to blame but themselves for whatever mental health disorder they have. All of the solutions should be placed in the hands of the individual. A lot of mental health professionals aren't trained well enough to strongly consider factors (i.e. cultural/socioeconomic) outside of the individual that cause people to have mental distress.

While it does suck that Nagata seems to have something going on most of the time, I do want her to be okay. I don't want her to force herself to be happy for the sake of other people. I have a lot of compassion for Nagata. While the reviewer says that she should get the professional help she needs and considering the reviewer's earlier comments, I honestly don't know if it might be the best idea for Nagata.

A long while back, when I was in therapy, my social worker switched me to a different psychiatrist than the one I was seeing at the time. I was originally under a Chinese psychiatrist, but my social worker said the new one fitted my schedule more. So I said alright. The new psychiatrist was a really old white male in his '60s-'70s with glasses. When I saw them for the first time, one of the first questions he asked was "How is my sex life?" I was aghast and questioned why he asked that. Then he went on to say "Maybe you should get a girlfriend. It can help your depression." Over the next few sessions, that psychiatrist's line of questioning about my well-being became a bit too personal to my liking. I told him to stop asking those questions and he apologized. I later told my social worker that I don't want to see him anymore despite her saying that he's a funny guy.

Seeing that review made me think about that awful psychiatrist experience I had and I do not want Nagata to go through moments like that because there's a good amount of bad apples in the mental health industry.

I'm glad ANN took down that review because they're not mental health professionals. And people like that reviewer are one of the big reasons why I got rid of the Manga Therapy name. I don't think professionals have all the answers to life's problems.

Going forward, there was a good question asked on social media - how do you make mental illness relatable to those who don’t have it? That's hard because mental illness is always portrayed as "crazy", "sick", "mad", etc. While it's clear that extreme forms of mental illness can be problematic, I feel that depression and anxiety are normal signs that the world is messed up. You think that people in power want to admit that they're the ones causing a lot of mental health problems?

You know, I think all people living with mental illness want is to not just be relatable - they want compassion, that's it.

And in a way that doesn't come off as something that sounds too much like a professional/expert, but more from an actual human being that doesn't have to act like one.

#mental health #therapy #industry #manga #community #mental health industry #Nagata Kabi

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My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness | Sabishisugite Rezu Fuzoku ni Ikimashita Report by Nagata Kabi - Chapter 1: Beginning 

#My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness #Sabishisugite Rezu Fuzoku ni Ikimashita Report #Nagata Kabi #mlewledit #yuri #josei #manga #mymanga #vixmanga #manga cap #mangaedit #anisource #animanga

[magz]

(Images: The cover of "My Alcoholic Escape From Reality" by Nagata Kabi. And a banner of the books she has written so far, including: "My Solo Exchange Diary: My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness", "My Solo Exchange Diary 2", and "My Wandering Warrior Existence". End ID.)

Besides Nagata Kabi's more well-known graphic novel memoir about her lesbianism and depression ....

In 2021, she made one about her struggles with addiction and medical issues. "My Alcoholic Escape From Reality".

(Image: Manga panels by Nagata Kabi. Her dad asks, "Planning to make this a manga too?". She's on a hospital bed, shakes her head, and says "No. People would come at me so hard ... If I drew something like this." End ID.)

It's not that often that Japanese creatives are so upfront about their experience with alcoholism,

and get international translations of it.

"My Pancreas Broke, But My Life Got Better" is also slated to release on November 2023, too.

Synopsis of "My Alcoholic Escape From Reality":

"This comic-diary recounts Nagata Kabi's experience descending into alcoholism as a way to numb the pain of reality. Drinking heavily and consistently, Kabi eventually begins to feel intense stomach pains, and discovers she has contracted pancreatitis. In My Alcoholic Escape from Reality, Kabi chronicles her recovery and her attempts to start using manga as a means to process her experiences again. For anyone who has suffered the pain of addiction and depression themselves, or know someone who has, this book will be intensely relatable. A profound reflection on alcoholism, self-discovery, and the long journey towards healing. "

(The graphic novel is read from right to left)

Get the book at: "Penguin Random House" Publishing

Microcosm Publishing (Physical)

Amazon (Ebook Kindle and Physical)

Apple (Ebook)

Archive's Open Library (lending)

Better World Books (physical)

Read for "Free":

MangaDex (currently in Spanish and Polish)

Bato.to (English)

Download Links Archive (English. CBZ)

Can find her other books in the same places.

#o post #my alcoholic escape from reality #nagata kabi #books #my upload #described #addiction #alcohol #medical

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nagata kabi + her mom

#nagata kabi #my solo exchange diary #manga #uploaded #my lesbian experience with loneliness

[justice-flonne]

Twitter and the death of Media Literacy

As the original post now has reblogs turned off before this post came out of the queue, looks like I have to make my own

Lemme tackle picture number 2 first. Number one, what the HELL do you mean "normal mentally ill [woman]"?? There's no such thing. There's not even such a thing as normal non-mentally ill. Everyone is different and has different reactions and symptoms. and number two: where the fuck do you get off calling the author a sex pest for the "crime" of exploring her options in brothels (well, i guess maybe it is a crime, i forget how japan's laws are, but still. i better not hear you demanding more rights for sex workers while indirectly demeaning their jobs, ya nitwit)? Being gay (or even just non-conforming, and that's not even just about gender) in Japan, while not as bad as say, the Middle East, is not exactly a walk in the park. She probably at the time of writing didn't have many options, and everybody explores their sexuality in different ways. It's really messed up that you're calling the author a sex pest for describing her life, especially since she did nothing wrong (as in, her encounters were all consensual. again, don't fully know the laws regarding brothels there. i think it's a "we'll pretend we didn't see that" scenario)

This also kinda ties into the downright dangerous idea that an lgbt+ person, lesbians especially, can only be an innocent pure being. that kind of thinking can and HAS gotten people into horrible abuse scenarios

As for the "incest"... whoo boy, this is gonna be long:

Now, I have actually read this manga, and I can cite the pages with the supposed "incest" mentioned in the first pic. I'd elaborate, but I'm admittedly quite bad at that, so I'll let the comic speak for itself:

(forgive me if there's any errors in the alt text. it's late 😭)

As you can see, the author does not LITERALLY want to fuck her mother. She has childhood issues from not enough affection (elaborated elsewhere in the book, but I'm tired. read it yourself. i got these pages from a definitely legal website, so can you), and wants to be held and coddled. She even straight up says what she feels is abnormal and yearns for a woman NOT RELATED TO HER to do things with. She KNOWS what she feels is strange and wants to (and eventually DOES) grow from this. I could post more images, but i'm probably pushing my luck as is

Point is, you "adults" really, REALLY need to learn that depiction is not the same as endorsement. Not everything is as cut and dry as the Marquis de Sade. This is, as the damn title says, the author's experience with loneliness as a result of growing up with an emotionally distant mother in a society that is markedly different than America

please, PLEASE, learn to think critically, and i mean "critical" in a "english class analysis" kind of way (for lack of a better term), not a "this thing you like is bad and it offends me" "critical." It's alright to be uncomfortable with things and even to not like things, hell I myself am a HUGE hater, but please, don't throw a tantrum because a real person wasn't a smol bean like you hoped

holy shit i need to go to bed

#my lesbian experience with loneliness #nagata kabi #media illiteracy #mental illness #abuse #we're all living in amerika #good grief #lgbt #twitter #this is at least partly due to the tumblr exodus so it's not fair to pin it all on twitter #but i'm gonna anyway