Shonen no Na wa Gilbert [Light Novel]

[Machine Translation] The life story of a manga artist who started a revolution in girls' manga. Her childhood in Tokushima, her hometown, where she admired Shotaro Ishinomori. When she made her debut as a manga artist in high school and moved to Tokyo, she found herself in the extreme situation of being "canned" by a publishing company. The days spent in an apartment in Oizumi, Nerima-ku, Tokyo, later known as the "Oizumi Salon," talking with friends about how we were going to "create a revolution in girls' manga. and talked about it with her friends in an apartment in Oizumi, Nerima Ward, Tokyo. The secret story behind the writing of "Kaze to Ki no Uta" (Poem of Wind and Trees), a huge hit that laid the foundation for today's BL (boys' love), which brilliantly depicted a romance between boys that was still considered taboo at the time. Keiko Takemiya, who was a leading manga artist at the dawn of girls' manga in the 1970s with a string of bestsellers such as "Pharaoh's Tomb" and "To the Earth (Terra)...," will talk about "what it means to create. This is a must-read autobiography in which Keiko Takemiya, who was at the forefront of girls' manga at the dawn of girls' manga, talks about "what it means to create. What in the world is the subtle friendship between a boy and a boy? What is this subtle friendship between a boy and a boy? Rejected! For seven years, the editor's wall refused to accept his work. It was a taboo in girls' manga. The secret story behind the creation of the masterpieces "The Poem of Wind and Trees" and "To the Earth...".

少女マンガで革命を起こしたマンガ家の半生記。石ノ森章太郎に憧れた郷里・徳島での少女時代。高校時代にマンガ家デビューし、上京した時に待っていた、出版社からの「缶詰」という極限状況。のちに「大泉サロン」と呼ばれる東京都練馬区大泉のアパートで「少女マンガで革命を起こす!」と仲間と語り合った日々。当時、まだタブー視されていた少年同士の恋愛を見事に描ききり、現在のBL(ボーイズ・ラブ)の礎を築く大ヒット作品『風と木の詩』執筆秘話。そして現在、京都精華大学学長として、学生たちに教えている、クリエイターが大切にすべきこととは。1970年代に『ファラオの墓』『地球(テラ)へ…』などベストセラーを連発して、少女マンガの黎明期を第一線のマンガ家として駆け抜けた竹宮惠子が「創作するということ」を余すことなく語った必読自伝。「男の子と男の子の微妙な友情って、いったい何なんだよ。ボツだ!ボツ!」七年間拒まれた編集者の壁。それは少女マンガのタブーだった。名作『風と木の詩』『地球へ…』創作秘話。