Аннотация:is a former light novel writer whose literature shows awareness of issues of gender, with narratives about violence, power, and identity.This chapter provides an analysis of her light novel, Red x Pink, a story narrated by three protagonists who participate in a girls' clandestine wrestling show, each of them performing a different type of character: the youthful Mayu, the dominatrix Miko, and the boyish Satsuki, whose narrative arc unveils a process of self-discovery and coming out as a transgendered man.The analysis of this work, informed by Azuma Hiroki's concepts of database consumption and manga/anime-like realism, will clarify how Sakuraba expresses the gendered experiences of violence and exposes the consequences of oppression, appropriating the popular form of male-oriented media to narrate stories of oppressed young women and sexual minorities.
