Manga is unflipped. Always begin reading in upper-right corner, and proceed left and down. ^^

Notes:

1. "Gyokusai" really does mean "death for honor". No gray translation area exists, that's exactly what he says. Melodramatic? Yes, a bit. This IS shoujo manga, after all. ^^ But this word does drive home just how much that ambiguous "girl" disturbed him. Homosexual characters are much more prolific in manga and anime than in Western stories, but to be gay in Japan is not nearly as accepted as it is in most of the Western world. Gay men in Japan are still expected to get married, have kids, lead a normal life, and through it all keep their "perversions" discreet--and remember, this story is set in the 1980s. That he was so memsermized by someone with such a male air is disturbing to our hero, and if this person does turn out to be a boy, it could be devastating to what he knows about himself, and it would definitely change everything in his life. "Death for honor" indeed....

last tweaked 7-19-05, created on 12-28-02 by slr2moons@hotmail.com