Kaze to Ki no Uta

風と木の詩 (Kaze to Ki no Uta)
The Poem of Wind and Trees
Genre	Shōnen-ai
Manga
Written by	Keiko Takemiya
Published by	Shogakukan
Demographic	Shōjo
Magazine	Shōjo Comic
Original run	January 1976 – 1984
Volumes	17
Original video animation
The Song of Wind and Trees: Sanctus
Directed by	Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Music by	Nobuyuki Nakamura
Released	November 6, 1987
Runtime	60 minutes

Kaze to Ki no Uta (風と木の詩^?, lit. The Poem of the Wind and the Trees) is a shōjo manga with homosexual themes by Keiko Takemiya. It was first published by Shougakukan from 1976 to 1984 in the magazine Shōjo Comic. In 1979, it was awarded the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen/shōjo manga. The series is widely regarded as a shōnen-ai manga classic, being one of the first in the genre to combine romantic and sexual relationships. It took nine years for Takemiya's publishers to agree to publish it, as Takemiya refused to censor the sexual elements of the story.

Dealing both with lighter subjects of adolescence and coming of age and with darker themes such as racism, homophobia, pedophilia, rape, and drug abuse, Kaze recounts the personal histories of and relationship between two students, Serge Battour and Gilbert Cocteau, at a boarding school in Provence in the late 19th century.

Serge is the son of a French viscount and a Roma woman, attending the Lacombrade Academy near Arles at the request of his late father. Upon arrival at the school, he finds himself roomed with Gilbert, who is reviled by the school's pupils and professors for skipping classes and engaging in relations with older male students. Serge's efforts to befriend his roommate - and Gilbert's efforts to drive off and seduce the young aristocrat, in response - soon form a complicated and disruptive connection between the two.

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