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I.S. (manga)
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| I.S. | |
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| Demographic | Josei |
| Genre | Drama, Romance |
| Manga | |
| Author | Chiyo Rokuhana |
| Publisher |  Kodansha |
| Serialized in | Kiss |
| Original run | 2003 – |
| Volumes | 9 |
I.S.(Aiesu), subtitled Otoko demo Onna demo nai Sei (男でも女でもない性?), is an ongoing drama manga series by Chiyo Rokuhana, first published in Japan in 2003. It is about intersexuals and the pain and troubles they go through in the life, such as gaining acceptance for who they are and their inability to reproduce.
I.S. won the 2007 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo.[1]
Contents |
The first volume of I.S. is a collection stories about two different intersexual characters and their separate troubles. Volumes 2–8 deal with the life of intersexual Haru Hoshino, starting just before his birth and continuing past high school.
- Hiromi
- Hiromi is an intersexual who was raised as a girl, who works as an office lady. She the focus of the first part of first volume.
- Ryoma
- Ryoma is an intersexual who was raised as a boy, but later in the story changes his gender to a female. He is focus of the second part of the first volume. At the beginning of the story, he is in his mid-teens.
- Haru Hoshino
- Haru Hoshino is an intersexual who does not have a surgery at birth to make him look like more of one gender than the other, but at 10 months old he has to have his testicles removed due to a medical condition. From preschool through middle school, he always plays with the boys his age in school, and is raised as a boy because of that. However in high school, because his birth certificate shows that he was a female, he is forced to live as a female for three years.
- ^ 過去の受賞者一覧 : 講談社漫画賞 : 講談社「おもしろくて、ためになる」出版を (Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved on 2007-08-21.
- I.S. - Otoko demo Onna demo nai Sei (manga) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia