Wandering Son

Informationen zum Autor Shimura Takako lives in Tokyo, Japan. Klappentext In the latest volume of this gentle manga, new gender-reinforcing school uniforms cause drama at the junior high school entrance ceremony! Zusammenfassung In the latest volume of the acclaimed series about transgendered kidsexploring their unfolding identities! we've reached a big event; the junior highschool entrance ceremony. The boys wear black uniforms with stand-up collarsbased on mid-19th century European military uniforms and the girls wear navyblazers! tan skirts! and red ribbon neckties. Enter our heroes; Nitori-kun isforced to wear a boy's uniform while Takatsuki-san has to wear a girl's! Yet onegirl ”Sarashia Chizuru" draws stares! whispers! and pointed fingers!because this long-haired beauty is wearing a boy's uniform. Both Nitori-kun andTakatsuki-san are awed by the girl's courage! but Takatsuki-san is particularlyvexed by their own faintheartedness. They envy more than a few other studentswho experience such liberty in wearing either uniform and ponder what itultimately means about themselves. Envy and jealousy are prominent themes inVolume 5: Chiba-san is jealous of Takatsuki-san! for whom Nitori-kun stillcarries a tortch. Maho envies Anna-chan's professionalism as a model. AndChii-chan's loyal sidekick! Shiri Momoko! is intensely jealous of anyone in whomChii-chan shows the slightest interest. And so our protagonists set off on thejourney to adolescence.

Product details

• Authors: Takako Shimura, Shimura Takako, Shimura Takako, Takako Shimura
• Assisted by: Matt Thorn (Translation), Rachel Thorn (Translation), Thorn Matt (Translation)
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.06.2013
• EAN: 9781606996478
• ISBN: 978-1-60699-647-8
• No. of pages: 230
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 245 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Wandering Son
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Graphic Novels: Manga, Manga and East Asian style / tradition comic books, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / East Asian Style / Manga / General