Maybe The World Is Catching Up

Would you believe, in The Australian Financial Review of all places, there is a full-page article about a manga comic called Wandering Son, which tells the story of two teenage kids....Shuichi, "a boy who wants to be a girl" and Yoshino, "a girl who wants to be a boy".

The article says that the story was originally published in a magazine called Comic Beam, ran from 2002 to 2013 and was adapted into a TV series in 2011, which was apparently very popular. They claim over a million readers and viewers.

Perhaps some of you aficionados have heard of this or maybe even read or watched the story. It would seem that at least a segment of Japanese society is more sympathetic to people like us than most Western ones, at least in comic books.