Keiko Takemiya
First serialized in "Shōjo Comic" in January 1976, "Kaze" has been called "the first commercially published boys' love story", though this claim has been challenged, as the first male-male kiss was in the 1970 "In the Sunroom", also by Keiko Takemiya. Rachel Thorn says that "Kaze" was "the first "shōjo" manga to portray romantic and sexual relationships between boys", and that Takemiya first thought of "Kaze" nine years before it was approved for publication. Takemiya attributes the gap between the idea and its publication to the sexual elements of the story.