‘Dick Fight Island’ Is Real & the Number 1 Selling Manga in America
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Yes, Virginia… Dick Fight Island is a real graphic novel you can pick up at your local Barnes & Noble.
It was also the best selling manga title in the United States in 2021.
Last year, Dick Fight Island was Amazon’s #1 bestselling romance manga. Created by Reibun Ike, the story focuses on an island where men get all hot and bothered while fighting in a tournament to decide who the next king will be. Participants fight to see who will orgasm first, leading to extremely sexual situations as these men protect their (ahems) with elaborate armor. The final volume of the series has been released (and I need to grab it as soon as I get the chance), but with a title like Dick Fight Island folks didn’t expect to see it sitting out at their local Barnes & Noble, let alone with a written recommendation for it.
my local barnes and noble really wrote and hung up a recommendation paper for Dick Fight Island pic.twitter.com/XDJh4xT7Uy
— Willow (@wiillowbelle) April 19, 2022
Dick Fight Island feels like a manga you either get at a booth that sells questionable paddles at an anime convention, or you order it online and receive it in a nondescript, brown paper bag. As a longtime appreciator of plastic-wrapped manga with two men in suggestive positions, I was surprised to discover that this series is not only available at the bookstore, but it’s front-facing on the shelf with employees encouraging folks to buy it!
What a time to be alive!
Me and the boys on our way to “Dick Fight Island” https://t.co/zGfjX2eAxB pic.twitter.com/KElqszEseX
— Parappa (@Parappa_GANG) April 18, 2022
Of course, it’s not all dick fights being featured at the bookstore, but that certainly is what was trending because, well, it’s called Dick Fight Island. But from the picture above, we can see that there’s an entire shelf of queer manga that ranges from “I can’t believe this in your face smut is actually at the bookstore” to more story-driven titles like Given, How Do We Relationship, Princess Jellyfish, hell, Massive is a manga anthology created by gay men that features interviews, essays, and illustrations, while My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness is a deeply personal autobiography. The options for queer manga have grown significantly over the years. The fact that there’s so much variety on the shelf is pretty amazing.
