History Manga / Claudine

For the sake of transgender issues, Claudine shall be referred to with male pronouns within this and other pages.

* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Louis Lacques, and Claudine in a sense.

* [[spoiler: GoodScarsEvilScars: Rosemarie gets half her face scarred in the fire that killed Auguste and Cecilia.]]

* [[spoiler: NarratorAllAlong: The Doctor, who narrates the story as he reminiscences about his old cases. He does think that Claudine was right into identifying himself as a male.]]

* [[spoiler: SnowMeansDeath: Claudine kills himself in a snowy night. It's still snowing when Rosemarie visits his grave.]]

* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Sirene

** [[spoiler: TheMourningAfter: Rosemarie never stopped loving and caring for Claudine, and we see her visiting Claudine's grave.]]

* HairOfGold: Claudine is a blond

* TransEqualsGay: Averted, as mentioned in YuriGenre below, and it's relatively respectful in its portrayal, at that.

* TransEqualsGay: Averted, as mentioned in YuriGenre below.

* ChekhovsGunman: 15-year-old Claudine sees a pretty girl through the window of a ballet academy. Two years later, the girl returns to his life: [[spoiler: she's Sirene]].

* KickTheDog: When [[spoiler: Rosemarie "loses" Maura's first paycheck.]]

* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Louis Lacques
* LoveDodecahedron: Claudine falls in love with Cecilia Lacques, but she doesn't return his affections because she sees him as a girl. Cecilia's brother, Louis, is sleeping with Claudine's father Auguste, [[spoiler: as is Cecelia]]. Rosemary is jealous of Claudine and Cecelia and serves as an [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Unwitting]] ([[AlternateCharacterInterpretation or perhaps intentional]]) [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Instigator of Doom]] [[spoiler: when she reveals Cecelia and Auguste's affair to Louis, who goes {{Yandere}} and kills them both.]] And that's without bringing Maura or Sirene into the mix.
* LoveHurts: Holy crap, Claudine's love affairs all end up badly. Maura? [[spoiler: They share a kiss, but Madame de Montesse catches them and Maura is sent back home.]] Cecilia? [[spoiler: She only likes Claudine as a friend, rejects his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, and later is murdered.]] Sirene? [[spoiler: She chooses Claudine's eldest brother over him... and then Claudine offs himself.]]

* SleepCute: Maura falls asleep on Claudine's shoulder right after arriving to the Montesse home.
* ShutUpKiss: [[spoiler: Claudine gives one to Maura when she's grieving over her father's sudden death. Claudine's mom catches them and they have a huge fight, which leads to Claudine going to the doctor again.]]

* [[spoiler: [[BuryYourGays Bury Your Trans Persons]]: Claudine.]]

* BrokenBird: Claudine is a female-bodied-but-male-identifying example

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Claudine's friend Rosemarie, who confessed her love to him but was rejected. She does seem to be the girl who understands him better, out of all of these involved in his life: she calls him "a true man given a female body".

* YuriGenre: Subverted, since Claudine identifies as a male despite being female-bodied, and searches for female love interests. Therefore, it'd be technically incorrect to classify this particular manga as yuri.

* [[spoiler: BuryYourGays: Claudine.]]

The protagonist is Claudine de Montesse, a softspoken and sensitive female-to-male trans person. Born to a French noble family, he starts to identify as a male when he's ten years old; his well-intentioned but inexpert mother then takes him to a doctor. Claudine opens up to him, they become good friends, and then we start to see how Claudine's life begins to develop from the beginning to the end of the story. . .

Claudine...! (クローディーヌ...! Kurōdīnu...!?) is a classic {{shojo}} manga set in the turn of early 20th century France. It was written by RiyokoIkeda, published in Shueisha's ''Margaret'' in four chaptera, and its only tankōbon was released on May 20, 1978. It's one of the first Japanese media that treats {{Transsexual}}ity.

* LoveHurts: Holy crap, Claudine's love affairs all end up badly. Maura? [[spoiler: They share a kiss, but Madame de Montesse catches them and Maura is sent back home.]] Cecilia? [[spoiler: She only likes Claudine as a friend, and later dies.]] Sirene? [[spoiler: She chooses Claudine's eldest brother over him... and then Claudine offs himself.]]

* CuteBookworm: Cecilia Lacques, Claudine's second love, worked as the librarian of the local highschool.
* HairOfGold: Claudine is a blond
* [[spoiler: TheHeroDies: Poor, ''poor'' Claudine.]]

* LoveHurts: Holy crap, Claudine. Maura? [[spoiler: They share a kiss, but Madame de Montesse catches them and Maura is sent back home.]] Cecilia? [[spoiler: She only likes Claudine as a friend, and later dies.]] Sirene? [[spoiler: She chooses Claudine's brother over him... and then Claudine offs himself.]]

* ParentsAsPeople: Claudine's mother, who is ''completely'' unprepared to handle Claudine's situation. Claudine's father Auguste seems to be more of an OpenMindedParent, [[spoiler: though he has his own issues... ''specially'' in regards to Cecilia and Louis.]]

* SleepCute: Maura falls asleep on Claudine's shoulder right after arriving.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: When Caludine meets [[spoiler: Louis]].

* [[UptownGirl Uptown Boy]]: Claudine finds himself as such, when he falls for the maid Maura.

* LoveHurts: Holy crap, Claudine.

* ParentsAsPeople: Claudine's mother, who has a good heart but is ''completely'' unprepared to handle Claudine's situation. Claudine's father Auguste seems to be more of an OpenMindedParent, [[spoiler: though he has his own issues... ''specially'' in regards to Cecilia and Louis.]]

* [[UptownGirl Uptown Boy]]: Claudine finds himself as such, when he falls for the maid Maura.

* {{Transexual}}: Claudine

* {{Trans sexual}}: Claudine

* ParentsAsPeople: Claudine's mother. Claudine's father Auguste seems to be more of an OpenMindedParent, [[spoiler: though he has his own issues... ''specially'' in regards to Cecilia and Louis.]]

Claudine...! (クローディーヌ...! Kurōdīnu...!?) is a classic {{shojo}} manga set in the turn of early 20th century France. It was written by RiyokoIkeda, published in Shueisha's ''Margaret'' in four chaptera, and its only tankōbon was released on May 20, 1978. It's one of the first Japanese media that treats {{Transsexual}} issues.

The protagonist is Claudine de Montesse, a softspoken and sensitive female-to-male trans person. Born to a French noble family, he started to identify as a male when he was ten years old; his well-intentioned but inexpert mother then takes him to a doctor. Claudine opens up to him, they become good friends, and then we start to see how Claudine's life begins to develop from the beginning to the end of the story. . .

* [[UptownGirl Uptown Kid]]: Claudine finds himself as such, when he falls for the maid Maura.

Claudine...! (クローディーヌ...! Kurōdīnu...!?) is a classic {{shojo}} manga set in the turn of early 20th century France. It was written by RiyokoIkeda, published in Shueisha's ''Margaret'', and the tankōbon was released on May 20, 1978. It's one of the first Japanese media that treats {{Transsexual}} issues.

* CuteLibrarian: Cecilia Lacques, Claudine's second love, worked as the librarian of the local highschool.

* GenderAndSexualityIssues: More exactly, transsexuality. It was groundbreaking [[FairForITsDay in its day]].

* [[spoiler: NarratorAllAlonmg: The Doctor, who narrates the story as he reminiscences about his old cases. He does think that Claudine was right into identifying himself as a male.]]