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Frederic Boilet is a graphic novelist of the [[FrenchBelgianComicBooks French-Belgian school]] whose stories are mostly about life in Japan as a Western expatriate. He himself has been living in Japan since 1990, and since then has been a "bridge builder" between the French-Belgian school and the world of {{Manga}}. He has in particular collaborated with Creator/JiroTaniguchi, and been instrumental in the latter's introduction to the European market.

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Frederic Boilet (born 16 January 1960) is a graphic novelist of the [[FrenchBelgianComicBooks French-Belgian school]] whose stories are mostly about life in Japan as a Western expatriate. He himself has been living in Japan since 1990, and since then has been a "bridge builder" between the French-Belgian school and the world of {{Manga}}. He has in particular collaborated with Creator/JiroTaniguchi, and been instrumental in the latter's introduction to the European market.
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Frederic Boilet is a graphic novelist of the [[FrenchBelgianComicBooks French-Belgian school]] whose stories are mostly about life in Japan as a Western expatriate. He himself has been living in Japan since 1990, and since then has been a "bridge builder" between the French-Belgian school and the world of {{Manga}}. He has in particular collaborated with Creator/JiroTaniguchi, and been instrumental in the latter's introduction to the European market.

Boilet's girlfriend is a fellow graphic novelist, Aurelia Aurita (the PenName of Chenda Khun), a Sino-Khmer woman, who has related their steamy relationship in the sexually explicit ''Fraise et Chocolat''. He makes no secret of his overt [[RaceFetish Asiaphilia]].

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!!Boilet's works include:

* ''Love Hotel'' and its sequel ''Tokyo est mon jardin''
* ''Demi-tour''
* ''Yukiko's Spinach''
* ''Mariko Parade''
* ''L'Apprenti Japonais''
* ''Elles''

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!!Tropes appearing in Boilet's works:

* AuthorAppeal: Young Asian women.
* BenevolentBoss: David's boss in ''Tokyo est mon jardin''.
* BittersweetEnding: ''Love Hotel'' and ''Demi-tour'' especially, though ''Tokyo est mon jardin'' subverts this with an EarnYourHappyEnding, and the more SliceOfLife-oriented stories don't really have closure per se.
* TheCasanova: How Boilet depicts himself.
* CharacterDevelopment: David is a rather clueless loser in ''Love Hotel'' and grows into a much more self-possessed character in ''Tokyo est mon jardin''. This goes hand in hand with his growing fluency in Japanese.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: David in ''Love Hotel''. Averted ''in extremis'' in that he gets another girl at the end.
* {{Fanservice}}: The stories feature liberal amounts of female nudity.
* FishOutOfWater: Western expatriates in Japan.
* LoveHotels
* RaceFetish: As Boilet confesses, "Japanese girls are so wonderful, if it was up to me, they're all I would ever talk about."
* SliceOfLife
* TranslationConvention: Mostly played straight, but averted at times to emphasize the fact that characters are really speaking Japanese. In which case their speech bubbles will be written in Japanese and the translation will be provided in a separate caption.
* WriteWhoYouKnow

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