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The setting: A boys' boarding school in Germany, sometime in the mid-20th century.
One winter day, fourteen-year-old Thomas Werner falls from a lonely pedestrian overpass to his death, right after mailing a single, brief letter to another boy at the school:
To Juli, one last time.
This is my love.
This is the sound of my heart.
Surely you must understand.
Thus begins Moto Hagio's The Heart of Thomas – one of the most compelling and enigmatic manga graphic novels ever created, and a pioneer in the popular boys'-romance genre.
I'm so tired of Brandish. Hopefully she doesn't literally stomp Karameel and ruin all that dragon hype but knowing she represents Hiro's fetish I wouldn't be surprised if she does.