| My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness | |
 Cover art, featuring Nagata (right) and Yuka (left) | |
| さびしすぎてレズ風俗に行きましたレポ (Sabishisugite Rezu Fūzoku ni Ikimashita Repo) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Autobiography, yuri |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Kabi Nagata |
| Published by | East Press |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Josei |
| Published | June 17, 2016 |
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness (Japanese: さびしすぎてレズ風俗に行きましたレポ, Hepburn: Sabishisugite Rezu Fūzoku ni Ikimashita Repo, lit., "A Report on Being So Lonely That I Went to a Lesbian Brothel") or The Private Report on My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness[1] is an autobiographical josei manga by Nagata Kabi.[2] It was originally published by Nagata on the art website Pixiv. It was later published as a single print volume by East Press in June 2016 in Japanese, and by Seven Seas Entertainment in June 2017 in English, with this version winning the Harvey Award for Best Manga of 2018.
The manga was well received by critics, one of whom called it a counterpoint to the "yuri fantasies" common to the genre, and was included on several lists of the best comics of the year, including the annual Kono Manga ga Sugoi! list. Japanese-American critics such as Okuyama have productively classified this genre as tōjisha manga - first-person narratives about lived experience of mental health distress - a subcategory of Japanese medical manga, which has since the 1970s grown into a considerable subgenre.[3] A sequel, My Solo Exchange Diary, was released in Japan in December 2016, and in English in June 2018. A third installment, My Solo Exchange Diary Volume 2, was released in English in February 2019. Another sequel, My Alcoholic Escape from Reality, was released in Japan in November 2019, and in English in May 2021.
- ^ "生きづらい28歳が人生を懸けて描く「さびしすぎてレズ風俗に行きましたレポ」". Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. 2016-06-19. Archived from the original on 2022-10-05. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
- ^ Gramuglia, Anthony (January 10, 2021). "Josei Is Anime & Manga's Most Underserved Demographic". CBR. Archived from the original on January 11, 2021. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
- ^ Okayama, Y. (2022) Tōjisha Manga : Japan's Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health., Springer International Publishing AG, Cham.