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| rdfs:comment | - Wandering Son(放浪息子Hōrō Musuko) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takako Shimura. It began serialization in the December 2002 issue of the monthly seinen manga magazine Comic Beam. The first bound volume was released by Enterbrain in July 2003 in Japan; as of March 2010, ten volumes have been released. Wandering Son was selected as a recommended work by the awards jury of the tenth Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006. The series is licensed in English by Fantagraphics Books, which is scheduled to release the first volume in North America in December 2010. An anime adaptation was announced.
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| Caption | - Cover of volume 1 of Wandering Son, published by Enterbrain, showing Yoshino and Shūichi.
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| volume list | - List of Wandering Son chapters
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| abstract | - Wandering Son(放浪息子Hōrō Musuko) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takako Shimura. It began serialization in the December 2002 issue of the monthly seinen manga magazine Comic Beam. The first bound volume was released by Enterbrain in July 2003 in Japan; as of March 2010, ten volumes have been released. Wandering Son was selected as a recommended work by the awards jury of the tenth Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006. The series is licensed in English by Fantagraphics Books, which is scheduled to release the first volume in North America in December 2010. An anime adaptation was announced. It was produced and was 12 episodes long. 10+11 were merged and it was shortened to 11 for TV airing. The story depicts a young boy named Shūichi Nitori who wants to be a girl, and his friend Yoshino Takatsuki, a girl who wants to be a boy. The series deals with issues such as transsexuality, 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.
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