Hourou Musuko 5 #5

As Shuichi and the others begin junior high school, they find that Sasa, Saori, Yoshino and Makoto are all in the same class as Shuichi. They meet a strange classmate named Chizuru Sarashina, and Shuichi and Yoshino are instantly captivated by her. Saori quickly butts heads with Momoko Shirai, Chizuru's friend, who is jealous of Chizuru paying attention to anyone else. Yoshino joins the basketball club with Chizuru, and the drama club decides to put on a play where the gender roles are reversed. Shuichi's homeroom teacher, Manabu Saisho, proposes doing something similar to his students, who like the idea. Finally, Yoshino and Saori rejoin Shuichi's group of friends, though Saori says she still hates Yoshino and Momoko. Shuichi and Saori separately write scripts for their class play, then together write a story taking elements from both drafts; the result is a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet where Romeo is a transgender girl and Juliet is a transgender boy. Yoshino is mortified when her basketball coach tells her to buy a bra, not wanting to admit that her breasts are growing. Yoshino tells Shuichi that she wishes she had a flat chest like her, and Shuichi tells her that she is jealous of Yoshino for having been born a girl. Another day, Saori asks Shuichi whether she likes Yoshino as a boy or as a girl.

Drama / HQ, comics, mangá / LGBT / GLS