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est em is the pen name of Maki Satoh, a Japanese manga artist. Career She made her debut as a professional manga artist with three yaoi collections after being scouted in art school. She was a student of Rachel Thorn, who provided translations for ...

released in English by Aurora Publishing in April 2008. It will be republished in English by

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. It was released in French as ''Tango'' by Editions H. ''Seduce Me After the Show'' contains five short stories set in the artistic worlds of dance, painting, and music.

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, est em's former teacher, retranslated the work prior to its publication. The author has said that she drew the book in around two months, and had her friends help to erase background elements in the draft pages.

Plot

In the title story, "Seduce Me After the Show" the story opens with Theo Galland, a ballet dancer prodigy, performing the dual role of the fiery, free spirited Carmen and the doomed and captured Jose in the musical dance ''

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''. After performing ''Carmen'', Theo Galland abandons his own dancing career for Hollywood acting when his famous dancer mother dies on her way to see his show. And it is here that Theo meets Daren Ferguson, a Hollywood actor, and once again begins dancing feverishly to the ''Carmen'' tango with a partner. They exchange a joking kiss, and playfully suggest the relationship may develop further.

Reception

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's Deb Aoki lists ''Seduce Me After the Show'' as the best

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manga of 2008. The stories are considered atypical for the genre as they are melancholy, without a clear happy ending. est em's art is also considered atypical as she uses little screentoning or shading, creating a "rough and raw" and "challenging" feel to her art. Deb Aoki expressed surprise that est em's characters were adult men, even "old and wrinkled" men, rather than boys, and described the tone of the manga as "wistfully romantic". David Welsh praised est em's skills at showing character development, creating stories which feel tailored to the characters. Seduce Me After the Show won the "Best One-Shot/Anthology" and "Best Yaoi" awards from PopCultureShock for 2008, with the reviewer commenting that the characters have lives and goals outside of their relationships, which they regard as expanding the appeal of ''Seduce Me After the Show'' to more readers than those who are already fans of

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works.

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