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Episode 4: My Name is Given ~The Sound of Your Name~

Shuichi starts to grow concerned about Yoshino, who has been spacing out recently. While writing his screenplay, Maho's colleague, Anna Suehiro, teases him to the point of making him cry. Meanwhile, Yoshino meets up with her transsexual adult friend Yuki. While at Shuichi's house, Saori comments to him about how his screenplay represents him wanting to be a girl loving a male Yoshino. The next day, Yoshino and Shuichi go out shopping for clothes, where he asks her to play Romeo in the play so she can see him as a girl. She accepts the role, but did not interpret it as Shuichi conveying his feelings for her. Meanwhile, Anna decides to buy Shuichi a phone strap, although he is not sure what she means by it. The next day at school, the teacher suggests that volunteers help Shuichi and Saori with their script, which aggravates Saori. When Saori invites Shuichi over afterwards, he states that despite being turned down by Yoshino, he still wants to become a girl for his own sake. Saori, who still has feelings for Shuichi, asks that he does not mention Yoshino in front of her again.

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Wandering Son
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Wandering Son

TVFINISHED2011
Fifth grader Shuuichi Nitori is considered by most to be one of the prettiest girls in school, but much to her dismay, she is actually biologically male. Fortunately, Shuuichi has a childhood friend who shares similar feelings of gender dysphoria: the lanky tomboy Yoshino Takatsuki, who, though biologically female, does not identify as a girl. These two friends share a similar secret and find solace in one another; however, their lives become even more complicated when they must tread the unfamiliar waters of a new school, attempt to make new friends, and struggle to maintain old ones. Faced with nearly insurmountable odds, they must learn to deal with the harsh realities of growing up, gender identity, relationships, and acceptance.

Lauded as a decidedly serious take on gender identity and LGBT struggles, Takako Shimura's Hourou Musuko is about Shuuichi and Yoshino's journey to discover their true selves as they enter puberty, make friends, fall in love, and face real and difficult choices.

Note: The full version of Hourou Musuko was originally intended to be 12 episodes, but the programming block it aired on only had space for 11 episodes. Therefore, episodes 10 and 11 were edited together and aired on TV as episode 10. Episode 12 was aired on TV as episode 11. The full versions of episodes 10 and 11 were included on the BD & DVD releases and are included in the Hourou Musuko Specials entry.

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