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普通のひと
ただ恋がしたい。胸をどきどきさせたい。
コンビニのおにぎりなら『赤飯』! それがマイルールの花島光也は、ある夜、最後のひとつの赤飯おにぎりを見知らぬ男から譲ってもらった。『お洒落』よりも『誠実』という表現が似合う・・・でも、どこにでもいるような男だ。数日後、編集経験があると偽って入った出版社で、光也はその男、的場宗憲と再会するのだが!?
普通に生きてきた・・・でも、恋した相手が同性だったら?
臆病な大人たちに贈る、思わず恋がしたくなる物語!
『普通のひと』(『普通の男』より改題)、『普通の恋』に、ふたりのその後を描いた、書き下ろし『普通のオジサン』も収録!! 装いも新たに完全版となって登場!!
コンビニのおにぎりなら『赤飯』! それがマイルールの花島光也は、ある夜、最後のひとつの赤飯おにぎりを見知らぬ男から譲ってもらった。『お洒落』よりも『誠実』という表現が似合う・・・でも、どこにでもいるような男だ。数日後、編集経験があると偽って入った出版社で、光也はその男、的場宗憲と再会するのだが!?
普通に生きてきた・・・でも、恋した相手が同性だったら?
臆病な大人たちに贈る、思わず恋がしたくなる物語!
『普通のひと』(『普通の男』より改題)、『普通の恋』に、ふたりのその後を描いた、書き下ろし『普通のオジサン』も収録!! 装いも新たに完全版となって登場!!
326 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2003
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About the author
榎田尤利
107 books1 follower Yuuri Eda is a Japanese Light Novel writer.
The genre of her works is Boys Love (BL).
Her debut novel is「夏の塩」(2000).
Yuuri Eda was one of the disciples of Azusa Nakajima ( 中島 梓, pen name of Kaoru Kurimoto / 栗本 薫.
She uses the pen name 榎田ユウリ for her general audience (not BL) works.
※Her two names in Romanization are the same.
榎田 尤利（えだ ゆうり）は、日本のボーイズラブ小説家。
7月16日生まれ、蟹座、O型。
2000年「夏の塩」（成美堂出版 クリスタル文庫）にてデビュー。同作品は、1996年『小説JUNE』77号に掲載。
『小説JUNE』にて連載されていた投稿作批評コラム「中島 梓 (栗本薫の別名義)の小説道場」の門下生。文章力に定評があり、物語性のある作品が多い。シリアスからコメディまで、作風は多様性に富む。
BL以外のライトノベル作品は、〝榎田 ユウリ〟で執筆している。
The genre of her works is Boys Love (BL).
Her debut novel is「夏の塩」(2000).
Yuuri Eda was one of the disciples of Azusa Nakajima ( 中島 梓, pen name of Kaoru Kurimoto / 栗本 薫.
She uses the pen name 榎田ユウリ for her general audience (not BL) works.
※Her two names in Romanization are the same.
榎田 尤利（えだ ゆうり）は、日本のボーイズラブ小説家。
7月16日生まれ、蟹座、O型。
2000年「夏の塩」（成美堂出版 クリスタル文庫）にてデビュー。同作品は、1996年『小説JUNE』77号に掲載。
『小説JUNE』にて連載されていた投稿作批評コラム「中島 梓 (栗本薫の別名義)の小説道場」の門下生。文章力に定評があり、物語性のある作品が多い。シリアスからコメディまで、作風は多様性に富む。
BL以外のライトノベル作品は、〝榎田 ユウリ〟で執筆している。
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March 8, 2015
"Futsuu no hito" is another excellent novel by Eda Yuuri. I once again was reminded why I love her books, too: her books not only tell love stories, they also ask questions and don't always supply the answer.
I was attracted to this book pretty much from the second I learned about it: I'm a sucker for love stories about "normal people", so it's no surprise I'd want to read one titled pretty much exactly that.
The first time Hanashima and Matoba meet is at a convenience store, late at night, when they both reach for the last sekihan onigiri. The second time they meet is when Hanashima starts working for the same company as Matoba - Hanashima, originally a graphics designer, managed to find a job as a editor for the publisher of business books Matoba works as a sales rep for. During his interview Hanashima, desperate to find a new job, lied about having experience as an editor. Matoba, having seen through this lie pretty much immediately, doesn't tell on him but instead takes it on him to teach Hanashima the ins and outs of the publishing business (something I obviously really enjoyed reading about).
As they spend more and more time together, on and off work - they live close together after all - the distance between them gets smaller, and they grow more and more conscious of each other. Both of them are straight, and Matoba even was married once (he's been divorced for six years), but especially after they end up at the gay bar of Hanashima's best friend's cousin both start thinking, "What if?"
It takes them quite a while to arrive at the usual conclusion, and in the second part - this books collects the contents of two previously published bunkou as well as a new short story - more trials and tribulations await them. With a little help from their friends they manage to overcome those as well though and all's well that ends well.
While the book definitely had its weaknesses, especially in the second part (with the double appearance of the sudden rival! and ex-wife!) what I loved where how it dealt with a lot of things that usually bother me about BL novels.
One thing being the suddenly gay person going "But I'm normal! And he's normal too!" Usually this use of normal - and the suggestion of gay people being "abnormal" is never or rarely discussed in BL, but in this case it is discussed in length AND the main characters actually make sure to not use the word "normal" in this context again.
And what does "normal" mean, anyway? Why do we use that word and when, and how does it help us? Is normal something desirable? I really enjoyed reading both Matoba's and Hanashima's musings on this topic.
I also was quite affected by Matoba's behavior in the second part where he can't help putting his pride above making sure Hanashima is truly aware of his feelings. While his behavior was a bit exasperating, his reasons felt very familiar and made me think about past mistakes and stuff. (That sounds a lot more dramatical than it is I guess but hey.)
Another thing that doesn't usually happen in BL is that they are both hesitant about sex at first - even though it is kinda obvious who's going to be on top, they're both equally confused which makes sense considering their situation - and when they finally arrive at a stage where they're both comfortable to become physically intimate with each other the "uke" initiates it and! they take their time and! they don't have anal sex at all in the book. Actually, considering it's Eda Yuuri, who is really good at writing sex scenes, there weren't any steamy scenes at all, now that I think about it. But since I noticed it only now I obviously didn't really miss it, and the sex scene that was there was very nice and emotional. I also loved the lecture about anal sex to Hanashima by a fellow uke. (I actually would love to read more about him..)
What it boils down to is that this is a really good example of a believable "gay for you" story. It's a setting that's usually taken for granted in... 75% of BL I'd guess, so it was refreshing to read a story about two men approaching middle age suddenly falling in love with another man that felt somewhat realistic (for the genre).
I was attracted to this book pretty much from the second I learned about it: I'm a sucker for love stories about "normal people", so it's no surprise I'd want to read one titled pretty much exactly that.
The first time Hanashima and Matoba meet is at a convenience store, late at night, when they both reach for the last sekihan onigiri. The second time they meet is when Hanashima starts working for the same company as Matoba - Hanashima, originally a graphics designer, managed to find a job as a editor for the publisher of business books Matoba works as a sales rep for. During his interview Hanashima, desperate to find a new job, lied about having experience as an editor. Matoba, having seen through this lie pretty much immediately, doesn't tell on him but instead takes it on him to teach Hanashima the ins and outs of the publishing business (something I obviously really enjoyed reading about).
As they spend more and more time together, on and off work - they live close together after all - the distance between them gets smaller, and they grow more and more conscious of each other. Both of them are straight, and Matoba even was married once (he's been divorced for six years), but especially after they end up at the gay bar of Hanashima's best friend's cousin both start thinking, "What if?"
It takes them quite a while to arrive at the usual conclusion, and in the second part - this books collects the contents of two previously published bunkou as well as a new short story - more trials and tribulations await them. With a little help from their friends they manage to overcome those as well though and all's well that ends well.
While the book definitely had its weaknesses, especially in the second part (with the double appearance of the sudden rival! and ex-wife!) what I loved where how it dealt with a lot of things that usually bother me about BL novels.
One thing being the suddenly gay person going "But I'm normal! And he's normal too!" Usually this use of normal - and the suggestion of gay people being "abnormal" is never or rarely discussed in BL, but in this case it is discussed in length AND the main characters actually make sure to not use the word "normal" in this context again.
And what does "normal" mean, anyway? Why do we use that word and when, and how does it help us? Is normal something desirable? I really enjoyed reading both Matoba's and Hanashima's musings on this topic.
I also was quite affected by Matoba's behavior in the second part where he can't help putting his pride above making sure Hanashima is truly aware of his feelings. While his behavior was a bit exasperating, his reasons felt very familiar and made me think about past mistakes and stuff. (That sounds a lot more dramatical than it is I guess but hey.)
Another thing that doesn't usually happen in BL is that they are both hesitant about sex at first - even though it is kinda obvious who's going to be on top, they're both equally confused which makes sense considering their situation - and when they finally arrive at a stage where they're both comfortable to become physically intimate with each other the "uke" initiates it and! they take their time and! they don't have anal sex at all in the book. Actually, considering it's Eda Yuuri, who is really good at writing sex scenes, there weren't any steamy scenes at all, now that I think about it. But since I noticed it only now I obviously didn't really miss it, and the sex scene that was there was very nice and emotional. I also loved the lecture about anal sex to Hanashima by a fellow uke. (I actually would love to read more about him..)
What it boils down to is that this is a really good example of a believable "gay for you" story. It's a setting that's usually taken for granted in... 75% of BL I'd guess, so it was refreshing to read a story about two men approaching middle age suddenly falling in love with another man that felt somewhat realistic (for the genre).
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