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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. 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