Tableau Numero 20
"est em" is not a name you’ll hear on the lips of most manga readers. She doesn’t have the multi-million sales of someone like Yuu Watase or CLAMP. She works in two genres that are decidedly niche in the North America manga scene – boy’s love and josei. Even her name is low-key, being purposefully lower case like e.e. cummings. Her name may be small, but within the boy's love fandom, she is a giant. Few of her works have seen any sort of release here, save for a few one-shot anthologies from Aurora Publishing and a few of her josei works appearing on the late, lamented JManga site. You can only imagine the excitement amongst those in the know (myself included) when one of her latest works was picked up by Viz via their SuBLime imprint. Like the other works that got physical releases, Tableau Numero 20 is a one-volume anthology of stories, with no real theme tying them together beyond est em...