Is there a reason Sora is an aspiring painter as opposed to an aspiring filmmaker or aspiring video game designer or some other kind of visually-oriented creative person? As I’m now in my 50s, I think of it as a gift to myself 40 years ago. It’s something I’d wanted to read as a middle and high schooler myself, so decided to write for my own self. Where did you get the idea for Our Colors? Set in contemporary Japan, Our Colors is a story that takes place one summer in a seaside town, following a gay high school student who loves to paint. What is Our Colors about, and when and where does it take place? But writer / artist Gengoroh Tagame has taken this thought experiment one step further with Our Colors ( hardcover, Kindle) a new manga that, as he explains in the following email interview (translated by Anne Ishii), he wrote for teenage Gengoroh. When we get older, we are often asked - and ask ourselves - what we would say to our younger selves if we could.
