What I wish to rant about...

! This is actually more common than one would think, (as I have a girlfriend who has a dick, but no balls, she has ovaries, Fallopian tubes, and a vagina!) BTW, a "vagina" is NOT on the outside! It's not that "Girls have vaginas, and boys have penises" as everyone thinks, but it's rather that girls have ovaries, and boys have testicles and a specific combination of Y chromosomes within their dna. What constitutes a boy or a girl is the number of chromosomes that are displayed within one's DNA, and people who have equal or near-equal parts per strand are called bi-gender. My girlfriend has 44 XY chromosomes, 46 XX chromosomes and 39 XXY chromosomes, so because she has more female chromosomes (XX) than Male (XY) or bi-gender (XXY) she is constituted as Female.

I also have a friend who is 45 XX / 45 XY and 38 XXY chromosomes, and they are considered bi-gender, as neither gender has more chromosomes than the other, and the mutated XXY chromosomes are higher count. My friend's ova-testies are inside of them, not descended like testicles and not as high as ovaries and release neither eggs or sperm but they are abnormally larger than testicles and ovaries are. My friend has a penis, but then there is a small hole underneath the hilt of the cock, where there is a small entrance, but no vaginal canal, cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes, or ovaries connected to the opening whatsoever. So they think that two separate zygotes merged while one was female, and one was male, and created a single human. My friend calls herself female, as she feels her mutated count (38 XXY) is higher than most, and being that there are more X's in the mutated gene strand, it gives her less testosterone than males need to function at full normal capacity, but only slightly more than the average female, so she has hideous hormonal ups and downs, and she experiences PMS... without the periods/menstruation, and without laying the eggs. She does not menstruate or "cum," but she says her orgasms leave her paralyzed and "numb," and her sex drive is THROUGH THE ROOF! Just like depicted in this manga! So there actually is some basis for cases like these!
She loves having her cock touched, stroked, and having her phallus fingered near her urethra, but she says that when she gets the feeling of "cumming" that it's extremely uncomfortable, almost like having an itch on the back of your knee or on your ankle, because only a small amount of clear liquid drips from the tip just before she orgasms. My friend's name is Jordan, since her parents wanted a gender neutral name in case the child grew up to fully transition into one gender or another, and Jordan was born looking EXACTLY like her mother did as a baby... But Jordan's mother died while giving birth, as she hemorrhaged and they couldn't stop the bleeding... Jordan is 21, healthy, and in a relationship with a 100% male guy named Aiden right now. Jordan has dated both genders just to see which gender feels more "right" for her, but says she feels more comfortable with males as sex partners. She and Aiden are happy, both are bi-sexual, and they are currently engaged and have a wedding date set for February 23rd, (her mother's birthday), in a private ceremony court house in order to avoid attention from media, just in case... but when they lived in Michigan two years ago, they tried to get married, but the courts said that "Gay marriage was illegal" and denied their request. Jordan is legally noted as "bi-gender" and neither male or female, but since she had a cock, the courts wouldn't let her get married to her fiance.

So... this is just something to think about... Gay marriage isn't just "for two people with cocks to sign a piece of legally binding paper" like so many believe it is... but some of the freedom of being able to have Gay marriage is for people like my friend, whose mind is "83% female and 17% male" as she puts it, but have the sexual organ of a penis that is traditionally "male" in the eyes of society... a chance to find love and partners and legally promise themselves to each other. It's not about what you have on the outside between your legs, but it's what chromosomes you have, and what gender you feel you are mentally and emotionally and spiritually that truly matters and constitutes your identity.
THAT is what's important. Humans need to get their minds out of traditional teachings that gender is based on your sex organs, and they need to be more open and accepting of the fact that gender is whatever someone decides mentally, emotionally, and spiritually for themselves. It shouldn't be illegal or legal to do, say, or behave one way or the other just because of your genetic makeup! It should NEVER be something that is decided by someone else, FOR YOU, that you are one gender or another! Just like it shouldn't be up to the government to tell me who I can or can't have sex with! THAT IS PERSONAL, and should be LEFT to the person to decide! Everyone else's job, is just to keep their opinions out of it, and love and support them no matter their choice! And everyone needs to stop saying things like "they betrayed me!" Well, isn't that cruel of them to let their gender identity crisis ruin your day and your conception of them as a person. wah wah! Boo hoo, poor you! Did their gender crisis bother your feelings? THEN SUCK IT UP AND MOVE ON! GOD! People need to stop making someone else's gender identity crisis, THEIR PROBLEM because they simply want to bitch about their confusion! GUESS WHAT?! THE PERSON WHO IS GOING THROUGH THE CRISIS, IS JUST AS CONFUSED AS YOU ARE, IF NOT EXPONENTIALLY MORE SO! They need love, support, and understanding... just like Haruka needed from Ryou-kun here, and that's really all it takes to touch their hearts.

Be the one person that doesn't scream bloody murder when they FINALLY muster up enough heart-broken courage to tell you! Be the one that says "Of course, that's normal! You are just fine! I wouldn't expect anything more or less from someone so entirely beautiful, and I couldn't ask for a stronger more courageous friend! I loved you before you told me, and I love you now. Gender doesn't change that. I'll always love you, and I'll always be here," and just WATCH the tears of relief, joy, and thankfulness come overflowing and pouring out straight from their hearts for you! It is one of the most beautiful things here on this earth in this life, and I'm proud to say that I have been able to experience it! The world is missing out on one of the purest forms of emotional bonding between two friends' hearts, and it breaks my heart to see people so ignorantly throwing it away because they don't understand, or they don't want to break tradition... All people deserve love, no matter what form, and this world is too damn angry to stop and smell the roses anymore... there needs to be more manga like this to reach more people of our generation, and the generation after that, and so on, and for this manga, I am extremely thankful, and could not have asked for more! Thank you for not adding a cliche sex scene, since that would have thrown EVERYTHING, involving the message of this manga, to hell! (No matter how much we all kinda wanted to see it! *SH!T THEM FUJOSHI/FUDANSHI URGES! SO STRONG! SO WISHFUL! (￣皿￣) *)
But thank you for keeping this Manga on point, straightforward, hopeful and relaying the message that the world desperately needs to hear!

If I could, this manga would receive 1,000,000+ stars, but for now, I'm leaving it at the limited 5, and I'm probably going to be looking for this bad beast on ebay, amazon, and anywhere else it might be sold, ALL NIGHT LONG! Well done Sensei... I applaud your artistic genius, and I am forever grateful! ARIGATO-GOSAIMASU!!! (ノ≧∇≦)ノ

-Shadow