Sunroom Nite information

Sunroom Nite
Cover of Sunroom Nite in the Keiko Takemiya Collection e-book anthology series
サンルームにて (Sanrūmu Nite)
Genre	Shōnen-ai [1]
Created by	Keiko Takemiya
Manga
Written by	Keiko Takemiya
Published by	Shogakukan (magazine) Asahi Sonorama (book)
Imprint	Sun Comics
Magazine	Bessatsu Shōjo Comic
Demographic	Shōjo
Published	December 1970

Sunroom Nite (Japanese: サンルームにて, Hepburn: Sanrūmu Nite, transl. "In the Sunroom") is a Japanese manga one-shot written and illustrated by Keiko Takemiya. It was originally published in the December 1970 issue of the manga magazine Bessatsu Shōjo Comic under the title Yuki to Hoshi to Tenshi to... (雪と星と天使と, transl. "Snow and Stars and Angels and..."). It is the first work in the shōnen-ai genre, a genre of male-male romance manga aimed at a female audience.

The story is a loosely adapted and condensed version of Takemiya's later manga series Kaze to Ki no Uta, and follows the relationship between a Roma teenaged boy and the son of a wealthy family. Takemiya's publishers had declined to publish Kaze to Ki no Uta, owing to its homoerotic subject material and their refusal to publish stories focused on male protagonists. She was ultimately able to publish Sunroom Nite by submitting the story to her editor at Bessatsu Shōjo Comic immediately before the issue's publication deadline, thus foreclosing any attempts to edit or reject the story. Upon its publication, Sunroom Nite was a critical success; it is credited with establishing male–male romance as a discrete category of manga, and launching Takemiya's career as a manga artist in earnest.