Moto Hagio
is a 1974 Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Moto Hagio. Originally serialized in "Shūkan Shōjo Comic", a weekly manga magazine publishing "shōjo" manga (manga aimed at young and adolescent women), the series follows the events at a German all-boys gymnasium following the suicide of student Thomas Werner. Hagio drew inspiration for the series from the novels of Hermann Hesse, especially "Demian" (1919); the "Bildungsroman" genre; and the 1964 film "Les amitiés particulières". It is one of the earliest manga in the "shōnen-ai" (male-male romance) genre.