Re-examining the work today is difficult, however, as I wrestle with flaws which only become more obvious to me as time goes be. I’m not the first to say this about Shimura Takako’s original work or to tell tales about how the story and its characters changed their lives and helped them to understand themselves.
Things got worse before they got better, but Wandering Son was the time my barely-teenage brain finally begun to process thoughts it had been experiencing since a very young age. I was this weird child who would crossdress when no one was around to see it and was left confused about why I always felt jealous of other girls and wished I was one of them. Wandering Son spoke to me in a way no piece of media had before because I saw myself in Nitori’s struggles with gender identity in a way I hadn’t before, even though I never understood this fully at the time. Wandering Son’s anime adaptation, based on the long-running serial manga by Shimura Takaku from 2002 until 2013, premiered in January 2011 in the same season as Puella Magi Madoka Magica during the first anime season I decided to watch new shows on a weekly basis. As soon as I had the opportunity to talk about any anime from the last decade, I knew immediately what I wanted to discuss.
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