Kira Takenouchi

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Kira Takenouchi is a controversial American yaoi author best known for her Ai no Kusabi-based doujinshi yaoi novel series, Taming Riki, which gained a worldwide following in the ever-growing underground yaoi movement when Takenouchi chose to sell her doujinshi series through the book publisher Yaoi Underground. Takenouchi's books are extremely sexually graphic, depicting male/male (yaoi) sex, and have been banned in Singapore and Thailand.

Takenouchi has a number of other titles that are published by Yaoi house, including Alpha Rising, I, Incubus, Harem Boy, In the Headmaster's Chambers, Once A Chieftain, Moon Over Atlantis, The Boy from Braxton Creek, Tristan's Reform, The Punishment of Shiiki, and Barbarian's Slave.[1]

Takenouchi shocked the yaoi world when she announced that she was giving up her company, citing a personal spiritual conversion that prompted her to abandon her career writing adult fiction.[2] She has since that time explained that she was suffering from bipolar illness and was in a manic state, and has now returned to her former writing. [3]

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  1. ^ K. Xing. "New Yaoi Authors," Spotlight, www.efics.net, December 14, 2007.
  2. ^ Heidi MacDonald. Yaoi House Future Clouded. Publishers Weekly. Accessed at http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/03/18/a-geek-by-any-other-name-%c2%bb-blog-archive-%c2%bb-yaoi-house-underground-headed-for-the-boy-harem-in-the-sky/?q=yaoi+house April 19, 2008.
  3. ^ Kira Takenouchi. To Thine On Self Be True. Personal blog, May 2, 2008. Accessed at: http://kiratakenouchi.com/blog/?p=4 on May 3, 2008.