Wandering Son
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Cover of volume 1 of Wandering Son, published by Enterbrain, showing Yoshino (left) and Shuichi
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放浪息子 (Hōrō Musuko) |
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| Genre | Drama, Slice of life |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Takako Shimura |
| Published by | Enterbrain |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Comic Beam |
| Original run | December 2002 – August 2013 |
| Volumes | 15 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Ei Aoki |
| Produced by | Jiyū Ōgi Makoto Kimura (Fuji TV) Shunsuke Saito |
| Written by | Mari Okada |
| Music by | Keiichi Okabe Satoru Kōsaki |
| Studio | AIC Classic |
| Original network | Fuji TV (Noitamina) |
| Original run | January 13, 2011 – March 31, 2011 |
| Episodes | 12 (aired as 11) |
Wandering Son (放浪息子 Hōrō Musuko?) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takako Shimura. It was originally serialized in Comic Beam from the December 2002 to August 2013 issue, and published in 15 tankōbon volumes by Enterbrain from July 2003 to August 2013. The series is licensed in English by Fantagraphics Books, which released the first volume in North America in July 2011. A 12-episode anime adaptation produced by AIC Classic and directed by Ei Aoki aired in Japan between January and March 2011. Eleven episodes aired on television, with episodes 10 and 11 edited into a single episode, and were released individually on their respective BD/DVD volumes.
The story depicts a young student named Shuichi Nitori, described by the author as a boy who wants to be a girl, and Shuichi's friend Yoshino Takatsuki, described as a girl who wants to be a boy. The series deals with issues such as transgenderism, gender identity, and the beginning of puberty. Shimura was originally going to write the story about a girl in high school who wants to be a boy, but she realized that a boy who wants to become a girl before entering into puberty would have a lot of worries related to growing up, and changed the story to fit this model. Wandering Son was selected as a recommended work by the awards jury of the tenth Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006. The series has been lauded for its use of gender reversal as the core of the story, though the emotional realism of the young characters has been called into question.
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