Fish and Water
$57.40
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2026
Summary
A tender and beautifully illustrated story, FISH AND WATER is a new graphic novel from Eisner award-winning graphic novelist Gengoroh Tagame. He asks: What if The Odd Couple were Japanese, living in the middle of COVID, and just might be … gay?
From Gengoroh Tagame, the brilliant mind behind My Brother’s Husband and Our Colors, comes Fish and Water, which follows the unlikely love story of two “straight” friends. Having met at a mutual friend’s wedding, Akira, a business sales adminis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593702222 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0593702220 |
| Author: | Gengoroh Tagame, Anne M. Ishii |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 274g |
| Dimensions: | 181mm x 127mm |
| Series: | Pantheon Graphic Library |
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Critics Review
“Tagame’s work combines a charming sitcom sensibility with simmering sexual desire, recognizing that humor and heat go hand in hand. It’s also a great story about how food brings people together, and Tagame uses meals to build intimacy by satisfying both physical and emotional hunger.”
—A.V. Club
“Sweet… . Tagame’s manga art is better than ever: in addition to his renowned talent for capturing brawny men in various states of undress, he also displays a flair for depicting cuisine. This lighthearted bromance-to-romance should charm the socks off fans of queer love stories.”
—Publishers Weekly
“In meticulously drawn black-and-white inked panels … Tagame reveals a charming love story… . Manga aficionados will likely notice inventive, tempting foodie parallels with Fumi Yoshinaga’s delectable, ongoing What Did You Eat Yesterday? series… . Tagame particularly excels in capturing nuanced emotions and gifts audiences intimate access to a couple tentatively falling in love… . Satisfyingly swoon-worthy fun indeed.”
—Terry Hong, Shelf Awareness
“Tagame’s food illustrations look delicious … making it easy for readers to connect with Akira’s intense excitement over meals with his friend… . Through moments of domestic intimacy, this story captures the joy of building a loving relationship.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Fans of cooking manga like What Did You Eat Yesterday? and Confessions of a Shy Baker will find much to like here.”
—Booklist
“Fish and Water is … a collective embrace of everyday moments in life and falling in love… . One of the best romance graphic novels I have had the pleasure to read.”
—Gay League
About The Author
Gengoroh Tagame
Gengoroh Tagame was born in 1964 and lives in Tokyo. After graduating from Tama Art University, Tagame worked as an art director while writing manga and prose fiction, contributing illustrations for various magazines. In 1994, he cofounded the epochal G-men magazine, and by 1996, he was working full-time as an openly gay artist.
He is the author of dozens of graphic novels and stories that have been translated into English, French, Italian, and Korean. His artwork has been exhibited in galleries across Europe and America. My Brother’s Husband, Volume I, his first all-ages title, earned him a 2018 Eisner Award, as well as the Japan Media Arts Award for Outstanding Work of Manga from the Agency of Cultural Affairs.
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