Kaze to Ki no Uta

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Synonyms: The Song of Wind and Trees, KazeKi, The Poem of the Wind and the Trees, The Song of the Wind and the Trees

Japanese: 風と木の詩

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 17

Chapters: 139

Status: Finished

Published: Feb 29, 1976 to Jun 1984

Genres: Award Winning, Boys Love, Drama

Theme: Historical

Demographic: Shoujo

Serialization: Sho-Comi

Authors: Takemiya, Keiko (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #550²

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MangaSho-ComiTakemiya, Keiko (Story & Art)

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Serge Battour is the son of a French viscount and a Romani prostitute, and despite his kind nature and academic talent, is shunned by his family and his peers due to the color of his skin. He begins to attend Lacombrade Academy, his father's alma mater, in the hopes that there he will find a place to belong.

Gilbert Cocteau is, like Serge, the orphaned son of a wealthy family, and is infamous at Lacombrade for his beautiful and delicate appearance, lack of dedication to schoolwork, and habit of prostituting himself to other students. He has no intention to connect with any of his classmates, instead devoting himself to his uncle Auguste.

Due to a shortage of living space, Serge and Gilbert become roommates even though Gilbert's antisocial nature has in the past made it impossible for him to room with anybody. Serge, being sociable and idealistic, is determined to be friends with Gilbert; Gilbert is only interested in either being able to manipulate Serge or push him away entirely. To the surprise of both of the boys, however, the two eventually form a deep, albeit generally dismal, bond that leads to a romantic connection.

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Sequel:	Koufuku no Hato, Kami no Kohitsuji -Agnus Dei-
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Cocteau, Gilbert

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Battour, Serge

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Rosemariné, Arion

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Beau, Auguste

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Biquet, Pascal

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de Ferrier, Jules

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Battour, Pavia

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Battour, Aslan

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Cocteau, Pale

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Cocteau, Anne-Marie

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Jul 14, 2014

JadeOlivia

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Kaze to Ki no Uta is a mature manga, not because of the sexual themes, but because of how emotional the characters and the feelings they posses. This manga is beautiful, the complexity of the characters, the drawings, and the overall theme...is breathtaking. I realize that many people aren't into BoyLove (BL), but I highly recommend this manga. It demonstrates the emotional struggles of young men, suppressing their desires, as well as the battles that 14 year old Gilbert possess of a new found sexuality. This contains all the bad stuff and wraps it in a neat little bow. It doesn't glorify rape, murder, homosexuality, ...

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Apr 2, 2020

Nid_Vicious

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[contains minor spoilers]

Before I get into my thoughts on this manga, I would like to address the concerns people have about the nature of some of the themes here. I very much agree with Oscar Wilde when he said that there are no moral or immoral books - they are either well written or they aren’t. That being said, I have no problems with the things I encounter in fiction at all. Especially in this Manga, which is loaded with things that I wouldn’t tolerate for a second should I happen to encounter them in real life.

That being said: I fell in love with this ... Manga, so my review will be heavily biased. When somethings stirs something in you, it’s hard to stay completely objective, although I will try my best to do so. You may want to keep that in mind should you decide to continue reading this review.

This Manga almost seems like it was written for me - meaning, it has a lot of elements I always look for or dream about, so seeing something so ‚dreamlike‘ in the real world, I got excited.

Set in one of my favorite historical periods (fin de siècle) in France, I expected a regular love story between two teenagers. It’s an all-boys school, so what else would happen, right? Well, to a degree, it is what happens, but the road to that is hard and long with no end in sight, and even when you think that they have finally reached their destination, this element of the story isn’t even half of what this story is about. Let me elaborate by talking about our two main characters for a bit.

Gilbert - he is the ultimate manifestation of addiction and fear. He has no sense of self since he was raised to be nothing more than a pet, causing him to lose himself in what he considers freedom - music, alcohol, dreams and of course, ‚love‘. He can’t be alone for a reasonable amount of time, and when he doesn’t get what he feels he needs, he will do anything to get it, anything - even if it inflicts pain on those the claims to love. The way he has been treated and continues to be treated by basically anybody other than Serge seems to only reinforce his idea that this is just the way things are. He can’t change. He doesn’t want to change, he wouldn’t mind staying like this forever, since reality is too much for him to handle anyways. The eternal boy.

Serge has always been a serious boy who is used to putting effort into everything he does. He soon realizes that being with Gilbert is to abandon everything - his dreams, his friends, his future. He suffers, but can’t leave Gilbert. Only when he realizes that he can’t catch this bird that is Gilbert, he sees himself forced to give up. Serge wants to save Gilbert and live a normal life with him, but Gilbert is not somebody who is willing to give up on his ways. Gilbert would be fine living like he did with Auguste (I’ll be damned if that man wasn’t modeled after Franz Liszt) except less cruel. Serge tries to provide Gilbert with a certain lifestyle, but to do that, he has to work and constantly suffer at the hands of his surroundings. Life with Gilbert makes him miserable, but he tolerates it for this impossible love. Each time there is a glimmer of hope, something goes wrong and it all has to do with Gilbert. Now, at the time, homosexuality was not considered a crime under the Code Napoléon, but that doesn’t mean that society did not frown upon such things nevertheless. He knows in his heart that there is no future for them, not only because they are both male, but because of Gilbert’s nature. Serge knows from his own father that you sometimes have to throw away everything you hold dear to be with the one you love, but unlike his father, Serge’s partner isn’t willing to do, well, anything. Gilbert doesn’t seem to care if he lives or dies, and Serge alone can’t take the burden which is both of their lives.

The story can get really over the top sometimes and a lot of the time, the character’s actions are completely unreasonable. In that regard, the story is a bit flawed and takes away from the realism for me, but in the end, I honestly didn’t mind that much because I got so emotionally involved in it. The main point, to me, is shattered hopes and dreams, and it can’t be helped that they do. It’s ultimately about the death of youth. It’s a classic tragedy.

Needless to say, I personally love the art. It's melancholic and beautiful.

This Manga just got me. It's an emotional thing, so I'm not sure how else to talk about it at the moment.

Thank you for your time.

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Mar 6, 2022

lebannen_

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I thought i was well past the point of getting emotional to the point of crying, over a manga/anime, and feeling a sense of profound emptiness after finishing a series after decades of being a weeb, but then i discovered THIS.

This series is an epic romantic tragedy, not entirely in chronological order.
As usual, the hallmark of a good series to me is one that makes you feel a very broad spectrum of strong lasting emotions, and i did. Envy, rage, hate, hopelessness, sadness, regret, frustration, stress and a few moments of bittersweet bliss.

Set in the late 1800s at a posh boys school outside of a ... small town in france, Serge battour finds himself living in the same room as gilbert, who sells his body for various reasons, and he finds himself getting emotionally attached to him, and also the story of both of their entire lives and how they were shaped as people.
Indeed, this series is full of every taboo you could possibly think of, to enjoy this series you need to have a MORBID sense of curiousity and an open mind (able to entertain ideas without necessarily accepting them). It is also very emotionally intricate/mature, so i can imagine a lot of younger people might not fully be able to "get it", i know i probably wouldn't have when i was 18-20 years old. So this series i imagine is for a more mature audience, in the sense of emotional and mental development.

The art is breathtakingly beautiful, which is why it took me as much as a week total to read it despite it only being 17 volumes, i like to read slow and really savour all the details.

I'm not usually someone to hate characters. In my entire 10+ years of being a weeb, i have never come across a character that i truly hated with a burning passion, no, not even characters such as the collectively despised Griffith from Berserk. He is a character that i can sympathize with because i can understand his emotions, although i don't condone his actions. At the top of my head as u write this review, i cannot think of a single manga/anime character that i truly hate. But it happened in this series, i absolutely hate Auguste, the cold blooded calculative sociopath, but i also hated Bonnard almost as much, although he seemed to treat Gilbert somewhat better than Auguste, he still raped him when he was still a child, and trying to pursue him despite knowing full well what kinds of hell he'd been through. What was even more aggravating and revolting to me is how he started taking the moral fucking high ground towards the end of gilberts background story. And this says a lot about the character work in this series in general, all of the characters are written so perfectly, including the side characters such as Pascale (one of my favorite side characters from this series).

Overall i don't think i could praise this series enough. Forget Clannad, forget kanon 2006, this is THE romance tragedy series that your heart desires.

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