Maybe that’s why its so exciting to me to see how well ROADQUEEN: Eternal Roadtrip To Love works as a manga-style comic book–it’s read left to right, Western-style. At least if a romance is between two men, however gendered or coded by writers or readers, they’re still both men and aren’t necessarily starting off with sexist baggage. I’ve interviewed boys love artists previously who described how they write male same-sex characters as a way of levelling the romantic playing field–in a sexist society, the argument goes, that in a romance between a man and a woman there will always be a power imbalance, a bias brought to the pages by either the artist and writer or the readers. After finishing out the year, accepting rides to school from no one, Vega literally comes crashing back into Leo’s life and makes a deal they’ll pretend date for a week and Vega will grade Leo on a pass-fail system, and if Leo can be a decent lesbian and get a single “pass”, Vega will return Bethany and walk away, no argument. Leo assumes Vega wants to get a date out of it, but when the bill comes after all their work Leo has no money so Vega takes payment in the form of Bethany. Until, out of nowhere, a woman named Vega literally drops into Leo’s life and helps her fix up Bethany. As she nears the end of her senior year no one has managed to beat her she’s still a lone-wolf lesbian. She was the heartthrob of the entire student body the moment she stepped foot in Princess Andromeda Academy, and she made the mistake of promising to date anyone who could beat her in a race, something her classmates enthusiastically take her up on, to her constant annoyance. Leo is a studly, standoffish young racer who, in the entire world, only cares about her motorbike Bethany. BLog reviews recent boys love, yaoi and LGBTQ+ English translation manga.
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