Our Colors


Our Colors is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gengoroh Tagame. It is Tagame's second manga for general audiences, following his 2014 series My Brother's Husband. The manga ended on May 2020 and the third volume will be released on September 10, 2020.

Synopsis

Sora Itoda, a closeted second-year high school student, is alienated by the homophobia of his peers and the pressures of needing to pass as straight. One day, Sora meets an older man who runs a cafe, and learns that the man is also gay. The series follows the intergenerational friendship that forms between Sora and the man, and the mentorship the man provides Sora on the problems he is facing.

Production

Series creator Gengoroh Tagame, a mangaka famously known for creating hardcore BDSM gay manga, began creating all-ages material in 2014 with his manga series My Brother's Husband. Tagame has stated that the experience of creating My Brother's Husband made him "realize how much fun is to draw," saying that balancing the creation of erotic works with the simultaneous creation of all-ages works was "very healthy for me, mentally."
Our Colors is Tagame's second all-ages work following My Brother's Husband. Tagame stated that the series was inspired by his desire to create a story about gay characters that was not centrally focused on romance or sex; further, he wished to create a story that focused on a gay protagonist, in contrast to the straight protagonist of My Brother's Husband.

Media

Our Colors was announced in February 2018 by publisher Futabasha in the manga magazine Monthly Action, and began serialization in Monthly Action on March 24, 2018. The series has been collected into two tankōbon volumes published by Futabasha. Internationally, the series is published in France as Our Colorful Days by Akata Éditions.