A mother in Washington State has filed a complaint to have the book Mangaman by Barry Lyga pulled from her son’s high school library.
Shirley Lopez complained after her 14 year-old son checked the book out from his high school library. “I don’t want to send my child to school and have him come home with this,” she told KIRO 7. “These are sexual images, they are naked images, they are naked and sexual. I don’t want my kid to be feeding his mind with that.”
The graphic novel for teens is a science fiction love story that combines inspiration between Japanese manga and Western pop culture. Here is more from the book’s description:
When Ryoko falls in love with Marissa Montaigne, the most beautiful girl in the school, his eyes turn to hearts and comic tension tightens as his way of being drawn and expressing himself clashes with this different Western world in which he is stuck in. “Panel-holed” for being different, Ryoko has to figure out how to get back to his manga world, back through the Rip . . . all while he has hearts for eyes for a girl from the wrong kind of comic book.