Wandering Son: Volume Six

Shimura Takako's sensitive and charming manga series about two middle-schoolers wrestling with their gender identities continues. Faced with unwanted changes to their growing bodies, male-identified Takatsuki-san discovers the wonders of breast binders, and female-identified Nitori-kun explores the limits of his ability to pass. Also: the success of their performance of The Rose of Versailles in the fifth grade - in which the boys played the women and the girls played the men - inspires our protagonists to put on another gender-bending play for the junior-high school festival. They riff on Romeo and Juliet. Nitori-kun and his friend Chiba-san write the script together, but Chiba-san has an agenda: She wants to play Romeo, with Nitori-kun in the role of Juliet. But Nitori-kun wants Takatsuki-san to play Romeo... Chiba-san forces Nitori-kun to confront a question he's been avoiding. Are his feelings for Takatsuki-san those of a boy for a girl, a girl for a girl, or a girl for a boy? Meanwhile, Maho plans a trip to the beach with her boyfriend, and Nitori-kun must chaperone.

Author: Shimura Takako
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 01/18/2014
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.63h x 6.75w x 1.01d
ISBN13: 9781606997079
ISBN10: 1606997076
BISAC Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels | LGBTQ+
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Manga | LGBTQ+