Nemureru Mori no Binan

Also known as: 眠れる森の美男, Sleeping Beauty Boy, The Handsome Man in the Sleeping Woods, The Sleeping Beauty Man, The Sleeping Male Beauty in the Woods

by Wakuni Akisato

1982. Tomoi Hisatsugu went to New York to work as a doctor. But that's not all. He hopes to lead an easier life as a young homosexual than in Japan. Indeed, he meets another doctor, Richard Stein, and they become lovers. Nemureru Mori no Binan tells of their relationship in an extremely realistic way. It portrays the life of homosexuals in the early 80s very exact and conveys the mood of the secrecy gays and lesbians had to live in well. It is also a very down to earth story with characters that could meet in the street every day and doesn't use the elements so common in today's Shounen'ai-Manga. One of Akisato's very best works and highly recommended. (Source: PRISMS)