Nagata Kabi
Nagata has been drawing for as long as she can remember. However, she did not start reading manga until 4th grade with Takehiko Inoue's sports manga "Slam Dunk". She subsequently started reading other "Weekly Shōnen Jump" manga series, naming Nobuhiro Watsuki's samurai manga "Rurouni Kenshin" as her favourite in middle school. Works. Section::::"My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness". Nagata published "My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness" first on the Japanese website Pixiv before its revised version was released as a printed volume in 2016. This autobiographical manga deals with Nagata's mental health issues and her homosexuality. It  established Nagata's trademark visual style of black and white drawings with pink screentones. Section::::"My Solo Exchange Diary". The sequel to "My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness", "My Solo Exchange Diary" (Japanese: 一人交換日記, "Hitori kōkan nikki"), was published in Japanese later in the same year, 2016, and in English in 2018. While continuing to explore the themes of "My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness", "My Solo Exchange Diary" is based on the concept of diary entries or letters that Nagata exchanges with her former and future self. Its second volume, titled "My Solo Exchange Diary 2" (一人交換日記2) was released in Japanese in  2017 and in English in 2019. Section::::"My Alcoholic Escape from Reality". "My Alcoholic Escape from Reality" (現実逃避してたらボロボロになった話, "Genjitsu tōhi shitetara boroboro ni natta hanashi", literally "a story of coming apart when I escaped from reality") is the fourth and latest installment in the series of Nagata's autobiographical manga. It deals with Nagata's alcoholism and hospitalization. The manga was released in Japan in 2019. The English publication is scheduled for 2021. Awards. In 2018, Kabata's "My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness" won both the Harvey Award for Best Manga and the Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Manga. Nagata Kabi