Tōma no Shinzō
| Thomas no Shinzō | |
Cover of the second volume of Thomas no Shinzō.
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トーマの心臓 (Tōma no Shinzō) |
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| Genre | Romance |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Moto Hagio |
| Published by | Shōgakukan |
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| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Magazine | Shōjo Comic |
| Original run | 1974 – 1975 |
| Volumes | 3 (1 in US) |
| Manga | |
| The Visitor | |
| Written by | Moto Hagio |
| Published by | Shōgakukan |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Magazine | Flowers |
| Published | 1980 |
| Volumes | 1 |
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Thomas no Shinzō (Japanese: トーマの心臓 Hepburn: Tōma no Shinzō?, "The Heart of Thomas" or "Thomas' Heart") is a shōjo manga by Moto Hagio published in 1974. It is an early example of shōnen-ai. It has been adapted into a film, Summer Vacation 1999, and a stage play. In September 2011, Fantagraphics announced that it had been licensed for English release; the single-volume hardcover omnibus, translated by Matt Thorn, was released in January 2013.
Set in an all-boys boarding school in Germany. A boy named Thomas commits suicide, and he writes a letter to Juli, who Thomas has an unrequited love for. A transfer student named Eric, who looks just like Thomas, arrives.
Although Hagio had previously been exposed to the gay lifestyle magazine Barazoku, Hagio was inspired by Les amitiés particulières to begin The Heart of Thomas as a work for her own enjoyment, and soon afterwards wrote November Gymnasium as a work to be published. At one point, Hagio considered making the protagonists girls, and drew a few scenes in a sketchbook, but decided that the boys version was "smoother" and less "giggly". When it was serialised, Thomas no Shinzo was unpopular, so Hagio's editors asked her to finish the manga up quickly, but due to the success of Poe no Ichizoku in the new bound format, Thomas no Shinzo was allowed to continue.
In an interview, Hagio said that she felt the theme might be "When does a person learn love? When does one awake to love?"
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