Wandering Son Volume 5

In the fourth volume of the acclaimed series about transgendered kids exploring their unfolding identities, we've reached a big event: the junior high school entrance ceremony. The boys wear black uniforms with stand-up collars based on mid-19th century European military uniforms and the girls wear navy blazers, tan skirts, and red ribbon neckties.

Enter our heroes: Nitori-kun is forced to wear a boy's uniform while Takatsuki-san has to wear a girl's! Yet one girl—Sarashia Chizuru—draws stares, whispers, and pointed fingers when the long-haired beauty arrives wearing a boy's uniform. Both Nitori-kun and Takatsuki-san are awed by the girl's courage, but Takatsuki-san is particularly vexed by their own faintheartedness. They envy more than a few other students who experience such liberty in wearing either uniform and ponder what it ultimately means about themselves. And so our protagonists set off on the journey to adolescence . . .