Characters
- Hiromi
- Hiromi is an intersexual who was raised as a girl, who works as an office lady. She is the focus of the first part of the first volume.
- Ryoma
- Ryoma is an intersexual who was raised as a boy, but later in the story changes her gender to female. She is the focus of the second part of the first volume. At the beginning of the story, Ryoma is a teenager.
- Haru Hoshino
- Haru Hoshino is an intersexual who was born with both testicles and ovaries, but does not have a surgery during infancy to make him look like more of one gender than the other. At 10 months old he has to have his testicles removed due to a medical condition. From preschool through middle school, he always played with the boys his age in school, and is raised as a boy because of that. However in high school, because he was registered as female on his birth certificate, he is forced to live as a female for three years. His situation is complicated more by the fact his body is maturing in a more feminine way, such as developing breasts and menstruating, despite his wish to live as a boy. During his story faces struggles such as bullying and trying to accept his body for what it is, as well as making friends and falling in love.
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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