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Summary: "Akira Okudaira is starting high school and is ready for exciting new experiences. And on the first day of school, she runs into her best friend from kindergarten at the train station. Now Akira and Fumi have the chance to rekindle their friendship, but life has gotten a lot more complicated since they were kids. It's time for the Fujigaya Theater Festival again, and this year Akira and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SWEShimura, Takako
Summary: "Shimura Takako's sensitive and charming manga series about two middle-schoolers wrestling with their gender identities continues. Faced with unwanted changes to their growing bodies, male-identified Takatsuki-san discovers the wonders of "breast binders," and female-identified Nitori-kun explores the limits of his ability to "pass." Also: the success of their performance of The Rose of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WANShimura, Takako
Summary: Shuichi, a boy who wants to be a girl, and Yoshino, a girl who wants to be a boy, become friends in junior high school, where they tackle problems such as gender identity, love, social acceptance, and puberty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WANShimura, Takako
Summary: "Akira Okudaira is starting high school and is ready for exciting new experiences. And on the first day of school, she runs into her best friend from kindergarten at the train station! Now Akira and Fumi have the chance to rekindle their friendship, but life has gotten a lot more complicated since they were kids... Kyoko's fiancé invites a group of her friends to join them at his family's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SWEShimura, Takako
Summary: "As shown in the first two volumes of this acclaimed series, Shuichi and his friend Yoshino have a secret: Shuichi is a boy who wants to be a girl, and Yoshino is a girl who wants to be a boy. But one day, abruptly, their secret is exposed, and the two find themselves the target of sixth-grade cruelty. Their friendship is strained, as Yoshino makes a half-hearted effort at being a 'normal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WANShimura, Takako
Summary: "Akira Okudaira is starting high school and is ready for exciting new experiences. And on the first day of school, she runs into her best friend from kindergarten at the train station. Now Akira and Fumi have the chance to rekindle their friendship, but life has gotten a lot more complicated since they were kids. Fumi is glad Akira is back in her life. Even in kindergarten, Akira knew how to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2006
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SWEShimura, Takako
Summary: V.1: "The fifth grade. The threshold to puberty, and the beginning of the end of childhood innocence. Shuichi Nitori and his new friend Yoshino Takatsuki have happy homes, loving families, and are well-liked by their classmates. But they share a secret that further complicates a time of life that is awkward for anyone: Shuichi is a boy who wants to be a girl, and Yoshino is a girl who wants to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WANShimura, Takako
Summary: "With the success of their performances of the play 'The Rose of Versailles', the class decide to do a riff on 'Romeo and Juliet.' Nitori-kun and Chiba-san write the script together, but Chiba-san has an agenda: she wants to play Romeo, with Nitori-kun in the role of Juliet. But Nitori-kun wants the male-idnetified Takatsuki-san to play Romeo. With her usual prickliness, Chiba-san force...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WANShimura, Takako
Summary: "A genre-defining saga of love and friendship between girls. Akira Okudaira is starting high school and is ready for exciting new experiences. And on the first day of school, she runs into her best friend from kindergarten at the train station! Now Akira and Fumi have the chance to rekindle their friendship, but life has gotten a lot more complicated since they were kids... Fumi is elated now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SWEShimura, Takako
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WANShimura, Takako
Summary: "Nitori-kun gets his first signs of acne. This may well be the end of the world. But when he turns to nationally famous model Anna-chan for help, events take an unexpected turn. Meanwhile, Nitori-kun and Chiba-san are scouted by the theater club after the success of their gender-bending play, The Rose of Versailles. But when Takatsuki-san congratulates Chiba-san, Chiba-san calls her a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WANShimura, Takako.
Summary: "In the second volume of Shimura Takako's superb coming-of-age story, our transgendered protagonists, Shuichi and Yoshino, have entered the sixth grade. Shuichi spends a precious gift of cash from his grandmother on a special present for himself, a purchase that triggers a chain of events in which his sister Maho learns his secret, and Shuichi inadvertently steals the heart of a boy Maho in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics 2011