Yuki Shinohara ( 篠原 結姫, Shinohara Yuki) Kana's schoolmate. Ryōji's inability to fulfill that promise prior to his death prompts Mike's solo trip to Japan. Ryōji had previously promised to Mike that they would one day visit Japan, so that he could introduce Mike to Yaichi and mend his relationship with his brother.
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As the series opens, it has been ten years since Ryōji last spoke to Yaichi before leaving Japan for Canada, and one month since his death in an unspecified accident. Ryōji came out to his brother as a teenager, though Yaichi’s discomfort over his homosexuality led to the fracturing of their relationship and eventual estrangement. Ryoji ( 涼二, Ryōji) Yaichi’s twin brother, and the husband of Mike Flanagan.
Natsuki is accepting of Mike, and helps Yaichi to understand the persistence of homophobia in Japan. Though the cause of their divorce is never specified, Yaichi claims fault for the breakdown of their marriage despite this, they maintain an amicable friendship. Natsuki ( 夏樹) Yaichi’s ex-wife, and the mother of Kana. Kana misses living with her mother, but attempts to hide her loneliness from her father, prompting him to include her mother more in her life. Though she was unaware of Mike’s existence prior to his visit, she is immediately accepting of him her unconditional love of Mike frequently contrasts Yaichi’s more complicated feelings about his brother-in-law. Kana Origuchi ( 折口 夏菜, Origuchi Kana) Yaichi’s daughter. He is proudly gay and is frequently depicted wearing t-shirts that feature LGBT iconography, such as the rainbow flag and pink triangle. Mike is kind and gentle, contrasting with his muscular and bearish appearance, and a self-professed Japanophile. Mike Flanagan ( マイク・フラナガン, Maiku Furanagan) The Canadian husband of Yaichi's dead brother Ryōji, who visits Japan to learn about his late husband’s past and family. Through his interactions with Mike, Yaichi is able to overcome his implicit homophobia, and realize that his silent discomfort over his brother’s sexuality led to their estrangement. Following the death of his estranged twin brother Ryōji, he begrudgingly allows his brother’s widower Mike Flanagan to stay in his home as he visits Japan. A single, stay-at-home father to Kana, he works as the landlord of an apartment building left to him by his parents. Yaichi Origuchi ( 折口 弥一, Origuchi Yaichi) The protagonist of the series. Gengoroh Tagame, author of My Brother's Husband. Yaichi and Kana bid Mike goodbye as family, and he returns to Canada. As Ryōji died before the promise could be fulfilled, Mike traveled to Japan alone so that he could honor Ryōji's wish of becoming family with Yaichi. Shortly before Mike's departure, he reveals to Yaichi that Ryōji expressed guilt over never reconciling his relationship with his brother, and promised Mike that they would one day travel to Japan as a couple to meet his family.
Mike's interactions with the family and neighborhood over the subsequent three weeks prompt Yaichi to confront his own prejudices around sex and sexuality, as his growing tolerance and eventual acceptance of Mike parallel his overcoming of his own homophobia. While Yaichi is not overtly homophobic, Mike suggests that his tacit discomfort over his brother's sexuality drove a wedge between them that led to their estrangement. Kana is fascinated by Mike and is immediately accepting of him, though Yaichi is hesitant to accept Mike as family. They are visited by Mike Flanagan, the widower of Yaichi's estranged twin brother Ryōji, who has traveled from his native Canada for three weeks to learn about Ryōji's past. Yaichi, a stay-at-home single father, lives with his daughter Kana in suburban Tokyo. Edition of International Material-Asia, a Japan Media Arts Award, and a Japan Cartoonists Association Award. My Brother's Husband has received overwhelming acclaim from critics, and has won an Eisner Award for Best U.S. The series, which focuses on themes of homophobia, cultural difference, and family, has been noted as a significant departure from Tagame's previous works, which focus on erotic and sadomasochistic subject material. Serialized in Monthly Action from 2014 to 2017, and adapted into a live-action television drama by NHK in 2018, the series follows the relationship between single father Yaichi, his daughter Kana, and Mike Flanagan, the Canadian husband of Yaichi's estranged and recently deceased twin brother. My Brother's Husband ( Japanese: 弟の夫, Hepburn: Otōto no Otto) is a manga series by Gengoroh Tagame.