OTOKONOKO

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This story is set in Japan in the 1920's and follows the life of a nineyear- </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>old Japanese boy named Takeru Kitagawa who was forced to </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>endure a childhood of psychological abuse and who later following </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the attempted rape of his mother by a yakusa gang member he was </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>cruelly mutilated for trying to defend her. As a consequence he </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>sustained a cruel and malicious life-changing injury which in turn </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>led to his mother's subsequent decision to abandon him. Takeru now </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>finds himself completely alone in discomfort and pain and now </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>abandoned he is left to survive on his own and fearful in his desolate </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>home. Whilst he struggled to cope with his debilitating injury as a </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>eunuch he tries his hardest to survive in the cruelest of situations. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ultimately he ends up being sent to a Yokohama orphanage by the </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>authorities which was located some distance away from his old home </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>in Spring Village. The only glimmer of hope that he was left with </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>was to seek out his grandfather who he had never met and who he </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>was told lived somewhere down south in Wakayama prefecture. We </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>are able to follow his life's twists and turns and with him explore his </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>emotional journey as he transitions from being male to being seen </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>as female.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p>