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A review by yuusasih
Wandering Son: Volume One by Takako Shimura
5.0
This rating and review are for all completed volumes.
Shuuichi Nitori is an effiminate, loves to cook 5th grader who was being mistaken as his sister in his first day at his new school. In the class later, he met Yoshino Takatsuki, a cool boyish girl and Chiba Saori, a girl who always encourage him to wear girl clothes. From there, Shuu slowly find his desire, along with Takatsuki.
One boy wants to be a girl, and one girl wants to be a boy.
I rarely found a manga that dwelling in gender and LGBT issues as complete, and as beautiful, as this one. Although mainly the story is about Shuu and Takatsuki and their transvestisism, but as the story progressed, we've met many other LGBT issue, as pansexualism, gay/lesbian issue, feminism, and such. And the way Shimura-sensei explored it in such soft and bittersweet storytelling is so beautiful. I end up near crying myself when I finished reading this story.
The characters are strong, too. Eventhough the main protagonist here is Shuu and Takatsuki, but we're getting into other characters' head as well, watching their personality and worldview grow, and being swayed into their everchanging relationships.
The plot flow is kind of strange at few first chapter, but as the story goes, it becomes more fluent and smooth. Also, most people are dissatisfied with Takatsuki's ending, but for that, I must disagree. I think Takatsuki's case shows the reader about the differences between transgenderism and tranvestisism, and I'm sattisfied with the heartbreaking, yet bittersweet, ending. I thought maybe I won't find any other LGBT story as good as this.
Shuuichi Nitori is an effiminate, loves to cook 5th grader who was being mistaken as his sister in his first day at his new school. In the class later, he met Yoshino Takatsuki, a cool boyish girl and Chiba Saori, a girl who always encourage him to wear girl clothes. From there, Shuu slowly find his desire, along with Takatsuki.
One boy wants to be a girl, and one girl wants to be a boy.
I rarely found a manga that dwelling in gender and LGBT issues as complete, and as beautiful, as this one. Although mainly the story is about Shuu and Takatsuki and their transvestisism, but as the story progressed, we've met many other LGBT issue, as pansexualism, gay/lesbian issue, feminism, and such. And the way Shimura-sensei explored it in such soft and bittersweet storytelling is so beautiful. I end up near crying myself when I finished reading this story.
The characters are strong, too. Eventhough the main protagonist here is Shuu and Takatsuki, but we're getting into other characters' head as well, watching their personality and worldview grow, and being swayed into their everchanging relationships.
The plot flow is kind of strange at few first chapter, but as the story goes, it becomes more fluent and smooth. Also, most people are dissatisfied with Takatsuki's ending