Welcome Back, Alice
Manga · 2020 · Completed
Drama, Romance
Welcome Back, Alice is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shūzō Oshimi. It was serialized in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from April 2020 to August 2023, with its chapters collected in seven tankōbon volumes. This manga explores complexities that lie under gender identity and sex, covering explicitly honest experiences of teenage psychosexual development and how it affects our perception of the opposite sex. The course of this manga also involves honest ramblings in form of journals of the author, Oshimi's, experiences himself from his younger adolescence to early-adulthood times. The two main characters are Kei Murota and Yohei Kamekawa, whom Kei is close friends with since childhood and calls for strange encounters of intimacy revolving around their gender identity.
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