Wandering Son Book 8

Reading level - 13 to 16 years.

Curiosity and transphobia collide in the latest volume of Fantagraphics™ critically acclaimed manga about a boy who wants to be a girl, and a girl who wants to be a boy.

In Volume 8, Nitori-kun, a boy who wants to be a girl, explores kissing with girlfriend Anna-chan; and Yoshino-san, a girl who wants to be a boy, finds the courage to go to school wearing a boY's uniform.

Meanwhile, one of their male classmates, Doi-kun, who has caused our protagonists misery in the past, becomes intrigued with their grown-up friend Yuki-san, a transwoman.

But Nitori-kun finds himself strangely drawn to Doi-kun & Shimura Takaro's Wandering Son has been rightly hailed as one of the most progressive and enlightened treatments of gender identity in the history of comics.

The eighth volume continues to explore the lives of its characters with insight and sensitivity.

"Wandering Son is a delightful, quiet manga about a girly boy and a boyish girl.... This is not your typical gender-bender manga playing a gender switch for laughs (and fanservice); it's a quiet, subtle story of a boy coming to terms with himself."
Brigid Alverson

"Shimura balances a full plate in this story, all the while offering it with the kind of easy grace that makes the balance appear to be almost magical.... In Shimura s sympathetic hands, this manga is neither gag nor message heavy: both main characters, their peers, and their family members are credible and developed with enough depth that readers can think about them beyond the bounds of the book. ...[Wandering Son Vol. 1] belongs in every high school library, as well as in public collections that are accessible to both youth and adults."
Francisca Goldsmith"

"...Shimura Takako is a master at portraying subtle events in a slice of life story about adolescence that never feels didactic.... Like the storyline, Shimura s art is simple but nuanced.... As you d expect from Fantagraphics, the production quality for Wandering Son is excellent."
Anna Neatrour"

"What makes Wandering Son work is its slow-burn pace and calm atmosphere. It takes a delicate subject transgender children- and explores it slowly and carefully. Much like its characters, it moves at its own pace, easing the reader into the characters lives."
Shannon Fay