The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms by Nagabe

Whether confessing one’s crush or learning how to kiss, we witness these wizards’ complicated, messy, and heartfelt expressions of sexual identity. He textually and visually articulates men’s first loves, sexual experimentation, sexual repression, sexual expression, and personal and communal acceptance all through the lives of magical beasts just as sympathetically and empathically familiar to humans as they are literally mystical. Nagabe creates space for expressions of queer desire. the teacher & the pupil, the hunter & the hunted, and courtship & friendship. Nagabe extends his expertise in characterizing the non-human by connecting the realms of boys’ love and anthropomorphic narratives, and exploring animal relationships which can be mapped onto dynamics of human relationships-e.g. The creator of the tale of insiders and outsiders in The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún (2017), Nagabe, eschews the boundaries between what is human and what is not in this eight-part anthology, translated and published by Seven Seas Entertainment in 2019, one year after its Japanese release. The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms Nagabe

After the Wize Wizard Wizdom saw fit to bestow human intellect on beasts, the resulting demi-human race built a Hogwartsian structure, Wizdom’s, atop a large, forested hill and dedicated themselves to pursuing magical knowledge. The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms follows the daily lives of students at a wizarding academy.

The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms by Nagabe