![]() ![]() Her instinctive friendliness towards Shuichi is shared by pretty Saori Chiba, who is happy with her own gender but troubled in almost everything else. On his first day he is befriended by Yoshino Takatsuki a tall, burly tomboy who harbours similar secret yearnings. Slim, androgynous and, let us be frank, rather pretty, he is constantly thinking about wearing girls clothes… He’s starting Fifth Grade and on the cusp of puberty. Shuichi Nitori is a boy freshly transferred into a new school. Especially effective is this second intriguing offering which follows two youngsters experiencing the most difficult times of their lives… Huge fan though I am of the ubiquitous digest-sized monochrome format that makes up the greatest part of translated manga volumes, there’s a subtle enhanced superiority to these hearty and satisfyingly substantial oversized hardback editions from Fantagraphics’ new manga line (see also Moto Hagio’s A Drunken Dream and Other Stories) that just adds extra zest to any work of pictorial narrative. By Shimura Takako, translated by Matt Thorn (Fantagraphics Books) ![]()
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