There is an annual international manga festival at Tokyo Big Site, where many manga artists, especially those work overseas, gather and I started exhibiting my pieces. So I became more interested in foreign manga industries, as they were more free and more open-minded. Tokyo Big Site is known as a sanctuary for Tokyo Otaku (geeks), but the venue has become very important for me, too. And then I saw RuPaul’s Drag Race. I found out that this is called “X-gender” in Japan and I realised I identified as queer and X-gender.

Source: The Guardian June 14, 2019 12:00 UTC