Takako Shimura,Matt Thorn
In the second volume of Shimura Takako's superb coming-of-age story, our transgender protagonists, Shuichi and Yoshino, have entered the sixth grade. Shuichi spends a precious gift of cash from his grandmother on a special present for himself, a purchase that triggers a chain of events in which his sister Maho learns his secret, and Shuichi inadvertently steals the heart of a boy Maho in interested in.,The transgender woman who showed so much interest in Yoshino (when she was wearing a boyâ€™s school uniform) in volume one reappears with her boyfriend, and becomes a mentor and friend to the two children. And the kids go on a class trip that is a rite of passage Shuichi would rather pass up. Shuichi is called a â€œfaggotâ€ by another boy, and the dramatic nature in which Saori comes to Shuichiâ€™s defense leads the two to discover a shared fondness for ,Anne of Green Gables,. But despite his propensity to cry (a propensity noted repeatedly by his more outgoing sister), Shuichi finds strength and courage he didnâ€™t know he had.,A sophisticated work translated with sophistication by veteran translator and comics scholar Matt Thorn.
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