Wandering Son: Book One (Wandering Son, 1)
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Wandering Son is a sophisticated work of literary manga translated with rare skill and sensitivity by veteran translator and comics scholar Matt Thorn. 8 pages of color; 184 pages of black and white
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The artstyle is cute, but the paneling is a bit confusing. One page sometimes has 3 different times of the day; at one panel they're meeting up and in the next one they're parting ways already. Random time-jumps without any notice. Cuts that aren't for aesthetic purposes, but simply random and confusing. Would work for a thriller, but not a middle grade slice of life... Also, it's a bit difficult to distinguish the characters sometimes, as everyone looks so alike. The premise is quite nice though; you don't have just one trans character, but two, and of the opposite gender. Shuichi, a boy, who wants to be a girl; and Yoshino, a girl, who wants to be a boy. It starts off a bit awkward, though. Yoshino has it going pretty well and knows what she wants, but Shuichi is of rather shy nature and gets pushed around a lot. The strangest part is that his friends are pretty much forcing him to wear girls' clothes, just because he looks at dresses a bit too long sometimes and the others think he would look cute. I'm sure they mean well (at least I hope so), but who does that? Is it a thing in Japan? Maybe I'm just hit with weird cultural differences, which make me a little uncomfortable, but... uh... Whether it's a cultural thing or not, just please stop forcing people to wear clothes, when they clearly don't want to – no matter the gender of the person and the gender attached to the clothes. Just... don't. Volume 1 is rather superficial and just about the clothes. E.g. Yoshino wearing a guy's school uniform, and Shuichi wanting to wear dresses. I hope it goes deeper than that, because transgender isn't just about clothes, and I really don't want this manga to be one of those false stereotypes stories. Generally speaking, though, can we finally stop attaching genders to things? Especially clothes. Dresses shouldn't make someone feminine/female, and trousers shouldn't be masculine/male. Please. I'm so sick of this. Just let everyone wear what they want. ~ Also, every guy who makes fun of periods, deserves to suffer. Get that period-pain-simulator and wear it 24/7 for a whole week, and suffer. Seriously.
Description
Wandering Son is a sophisticated work of literary manga translated with rare skill and sensitivity by veteran translator and comics scholar Matt Thorn. 8 pages of color; 184 pages of black and white
Book Information
Posts
The artstyle is cute, but the paneling is a bit confusing. One page sometimes has 3 different times of the day; at one panel they're meeting up and in the next one they're parting ways already. Random time-jumps without any notice. Cuts that aren't for aesthetic purposes, but simply random and confusing. Would work for a thriller, but not a middle grade slice of life... Also, it's a bit difficult to distinguish the characters sometimes, as everyone looks so alike. The premise is quite nice though; you don't have just one trans character, but two, and of the opposite gender. Shuichi, a boy, who wants to be a girl; and Yoshino, a girl, who wants to be a boy. It starts off a bit awkward, though. Yoshino has it going pretty well and knows what she wants, but Shuichi is of rather shy nature and gets pushed around a lot. The strangest part is that his friends are pretty much forcing him to wear girls' clothes, just because he looks at dresses a bit too long sometimes and the others think he would look cute. I'm sure they mean well (at least I hope so), but who does that? Is it a thing in Japan? Maybe I'm just hit with weird cultural differences, which make me a little uncomfortable, but... uh... Whether it's a cultural thing or not, just please stop forcing people to wear clothes, when they clearly don't want to – no matter the gender of the person and the gender attached to the clothes. Just... don't. Volume 1 is rather superficial and just about the clothes. E.g. Yoshino wearing a guy's school uniform, and Shuichi wanting to wear dresses. I hope it goes deeper than that, because transgender isn't just about clothes, and I really don't want this manga to be one of those false stereotypes stories. Generally speaking, though, can we finally stop attaching genders to things? Especially clothes. Dresses shouldn't make someone feminine/female, and trousers shouldn't be masculine/male. Please. I'm so sick of this. Just let everyone wear what they want. ~ Also, every guy who makes fun of periods, deserves to suffer. Get that period-pain-simulator and wear it 24/7 for a whole week, and suffer. Seriously.