Anne Ishii

Ishii is a producer of bara manga. Her work includes The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: Master of Gay Erotic Manga,{{Cite news |last=Trebay |first=Guy |date=23 June 2014 |title=Opening Ceremony Turns to Manga Comic Artist for Gay Pride Week |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/26/fashion/opening-ceremony-turns-to-manga-comic-artist-for-gay-pride-week.html |url-status=live |access-date=13 December 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231214045708/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/26/fashion/opening-ceremony-turns-to-manga-comic-artist-for-gay-pride-week.html |archive-date=14 December 2023}} and Massive: Gay Japanese Manga and the Men Who Make It, edited alongside Graham Kolbeins, featuring manga artists Gengoroh Tagame, Jiraiya, Seizoh Ebisubashi, Kazuhide Ichikawa, Inu Yoshi, Takeshi Matsu, Gai Mizuki and Poosukeh Kumada, with artwork by Chip Kidd. In 2013, Ishii founded Massive Goods with Graham Kolbeins, a line of Bara Japanese manga and paraphernalia tied to their graphic novel of the same name. She was a co-executive producer and writer on Kolbeins's 2019 documentary Queer Japan.{{Cite web |last=Reynolds |first=Daniel |date=29 October 2020 |title='Queer Japan' Shows the Asian Nation's 'LGBT Boom' in New Trailer |url=https://www.advocate.com/film/2020/10/29/queer-japan-shows-asian-nations-lgbt-boom-new-trailer |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101232749/https://www.advocate.com/film/2020/10/29/queer-japan-shows-asian-nations-lgbt-boom-new-trailer |archive-date=1 November 2023 |access-date=13 December 2023 |website=The Advocate |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Windsor |first=Harry |date=22 July 2019 |title=‘Queer Japan’: Film Review {{!}} Outfest 2019 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/queer-japan-review-1225995/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605233906/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/queer-japan-review-1225995/ |archive-date=5 June 2023 |access-date=13 December 2023 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}

She is the translator of the English version of Tagame's manga My Brother's Husband."[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545416/my-brothers-husband-volume-1-by-gengoroh-tagame/9781101871515/ My Brother’s Husband, Volume 1]." Penguin Random House. Retrieved on May 7, 2018.

Ishii's translation credits include the Aranzi Machine Gun series, Aranzi Aronzo Fun Dolls (Let's Make Cute Stuff), The Cute Book, The Bad Book, Gunji, and Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan.

Formerly with Vertical, she is the editor-in-chief of They're All So Beautiful{{Cite web |date=5 April 2013 |title=The Best Cure for Yellow Fever? Date an Asian. |url=https://www.giantrobot.com/blogs/giant-robot-store-and-gr2-news/15798819-the-best-cure-for-yellow-fever-date-an-asian |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230401021743/https://www.giantrobot.com/blogs/giant-robot-store-and-gr2-news/15798819-the-best-cure-for-yellow-fever-date-an-asian |archive-date=1 April 2023 |access-date=13 December 2023 |website=Giant Robot |language=en}} and Paperhouses. As a writer, Ishii has been published by The Village Voice,{{Cite web |last=Ishii |first=Anne |date=27 December 2005 |title=English as a Second Language |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/english-as-a-second-language/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231214053334/https://www.villagevoice.com/english-as-a-second-language/ |archive-date=14 December 2023 |access-date=13 December 2023 |website=The Village Voice}} Slate,{{Cite news |last=Ishii |first=Anne |date=2 February 2013 |title=Bao Wow Wow Yippee Yo Yippee Yay |language=en-US |work=Slate |url=https://slate.com/culture/2013/02/eddie-huangs-fresh-off-the-boat-reviewed.html |url-status=live |access-date=14 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230620071133/https://slate.com/culture/2013/02/eddie-huangs-fresh-off-the-boat-reviewed.html |archive-date=20 June 2023 |issn=1091-2339}} Publishers Weekly,{{Cite web |title=Articles written by Anne Ishii |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/article_authors/59.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231214052523/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/article_authors/59.html |archive-date=14 December 2023 |access-date=13 December 2023 |website=Publishers Weekly |language=en}} Guernica,{{Cite web |last=Ishii |first=Anne |date=15 August 2013 |title=Bringing Up Sunny: A champion for the bildungsroman publishes his first confessional novel based on his childhood |url=https://www.guernicamag.com/bringing-up-sunny/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711025408/https://www.guernicamag.com/bringing-up-sunny/ |archive-date=11 July 2021 |access-date=13 December 2023 |website=Guernica |language=en-US}} Giant Robot, and Asian American Writers' Workshop.{{Cite web |last=Ishii |first=Anne |date=3 June 2012 |title=Pen and Paper. . . on Paper |url=https://aaww.org/pen-and-paper-on-paper/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530003219/https://aaww.org/pen-and-paper-on-paper/ |archive-date=30 May 2023 |access-date=13 December 2023 |website=Asian American Writers' Workshop |language=en-US}}

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