History Manga / Claudine

''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 Creator/RiyokoIkeda, published in Shueisha's ''Margaret'' in four chapters, and its only tankōbon was released on May 20, 1978. It's one of the first Japanese media to portray someone as {{Transgender}}.

%%* {{Transgender}}: Claude is a trans man.

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

* TransTribulations: While a lot of Claude's issues are directly caused by his turbulent love-life, the fact that he's seen by others as a masculine woman instead of the man he is definitely exacerbates these issues (most notably, his relationship with Maura is interfered with because it's seen as lesbian and thus inappropriate, Cecilia rejects him because he's "a girl", and Sirene [[spoiler:is accepted by Claude's brother because he sees Claude as a woman]]). In the end, something that [[spoiler:contributed towards [[SpurnedIntoSuicide his suicide]]]] is a phone call he has with his psychologist, who tries to assure him by saying that he's a man, and very masculine at that - something that Claude interprets as him being "an imperfect man".

The protagonist's birth name is Claudine de Montesse, otherwise known as Claude, a noble, regal, and extremely romantic young man. He is a transgender man and struggles to reconcile his conception of himself with being born female. Born to a French noble family, he is aware of the fact he is a boy and shares a special father and son bond with his dad to whom he has the most resemblance of all his brothers; when he's ten years old, his well-intentioned but ignorant mother then takes him to a doctor. Claude reveals the nature of his life, the doctor comes to respect and understand him, and then we start to see how the complicated and tragic events of Claude's life begin to develop from the beginning to the end of the story. . .

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: A distressed Rosemarie tells Louis about Claude and Cecilia, not knowing that Louis was also Auguste's lover. Louis ''snaps'' massively and burns down Cecilia's house, killing her and Auguste, and leaving Rosemarie herself with severe burns in half of her face.]]

* TransTribulations: While a lot of Claude's issues are directly caused by his turbulent love-life, the fact that he's seen by others as a masculine woman instead of the man he is definitely exacerbates these issues (most notably, his relationship with Maura is interfered with because it's seen as lesbian and thus inappropriate, Cecilia rejects him because he's "a girl", and Sirene [[spoiler:is accepted by Claude's bother because he sees Claude as a woman]]). In the end, something that [[spoiler:contributed towards [[SpurnedIntoSuicide his suicide]]]] is a phone call he has with his psychologist, who tries to assure him by saying that he's a man, and very masculine at that - something that Claude interprets as him being "an imperfect man".

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

* TheAce: At university, Claude becomes this. Obviously, he's more of a BrokenAce.

* ArrangedMarriage: Claude's parents.

* BreakTheCutie: Claude, [[spoiler: Maura]], [[spoiler: Rosemarie]]
* BrokenBird: Claude is mentally configured as male but born with female reproductive organs.
%%* BuryYourGays Bury Your Trans-people: [[spoiler:Claude.]] -- ZCE

* ClingyJealousGirl: Rosemarie, specially when younger.
* ComingOfAgeStory: [[spoiler: With a DownerEnding, however.]]
* CountryMouse: Maura
* DownerEnding
* GoodScarsEvilScars: [[spoiler:Rosemarie gets half her face scarred in the fire that killed Auguste and Cecilia.]]
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Poor, ''poor'' Claude.]]
* HotLibrarian: Cecilia Lacques, Claude's second love, worked as the librarian of the local high school.
* {{Jerkass}}: Louis.
* KickTheDog: When [[spoiler: Rosemarie "loses" Maura's first paycheck.]] Claude notices what happened despite everyone else believing [[spoiler: it was lost in the mail]], but he doesn't say anything.

* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Louis Lacques, and Claude.

* LoveHurts: Holy crap, Claude'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. (Then again, her dad had just died so she had to go anyway).]] Cecilia? [[spoiler: She only likes Claude as a friend, rejects his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, and later is murdered.]] Sirene? [[spoiler: She chooses Claude's eldest brother Andre over him... and then Claude offs himself.]]

* NoNameGiven: The Doctor, Claude's mom

* PrincelyYoungMan: Claude and his brothers.
* ProperLady: Madame Montesse, and also Cecilia. Rosemarie seems to have grown into one by the end of the series.

* ShoujoDemographic

* TallDarkAndHandsome: Claude's brothers Andre, Edouard, and Thomas.
* TransEqualsGay: Averted, as mentioned in YuriGenre below. And it's relatively respectful in its portrayal, at that.
* {{Transgender}}: Claude is a trans man.
* TransTribulations: Definitely. While a lot of Claude's issues are directly caused by his turbulent love-life, the fact that he's seen by others as a masculine woman instead of the man he is definitely exacerbates these issues (most notably, his relationship with Maura is interfered with because it's seen as lesbian and thus inappropriate, Cecilia rejects him because he's "a girl", and Sirene [[spoiler:is accepted by Claude's bother because he sees Claude as a woman]]). In the end, something that [[spoiler:contributed towards [[SpurnedIntoSuicide his suicide]]]] is a phone call he has with his psychologist, who tries to assure him by saying that he's a man, and very masculine at that - something that Claude interprets as him being "an imperfect man".

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: When Claude meets [[spoiler: Louis]], who mistakes him for a full-bodied boy.

* UptownGirl: Claude finds himself as a gender-inversion, when he falls for the maid Maura.
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Louis, who once was Auguste's lover... and ends up killing Auguste ''and'' his sister Cecilia.]]
* YuriGenre: Subverted, since Claude searches for female love interests yet identifies as male despite his female body. Therefore, it'd be technically incorrect to classify this particular manga as yuri.

* ShojoDemographic

* LoveDodecahedron: Claude falls in love with Cecilia Lacques, but she doesn't return his affections because she sees him as a girl. Cecilia's younger brother, Louis, is sleeping with Claude's father Auguste, [[spoiler: as is Cecilia]]. Rosemarie is in love with Claude since they were kids, is jealous of Claude and Cecilia and serves as an [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Unwitting]] ([[AlternateCharacterInterpretation or perhaps intentional]]) [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Instigator of Doom]] [[spoiler: when she reveals Cecilia and Auguste's affair to Louis, who goes {{Yandere}} and kills them both.]] And that's without bringing Maura or Sirene into the mix.

** This what drives [[spoiler:Claude to shoot himself dead after learning that Sirene dumps him for his older brother.]]

* {{Shojo}}

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

* UptownGuy: Claude finds himself as such, when he falls for the maid Maura.

* InterGenerationalFriendship: The doctor (in his 40's at least) and Claude (starts the story as a pre-teen boy, by the end is in his late teens)

* GenderAndSexualityTropes: More exactly, transgender. It was groundbreaking [[FairForITsDay in its day]].

* HotLibrarian: Cecilia Lacques, Claude's second love, worked as the librarian of the local highschool.
* JerkAss: Louis.

* ComingOfAgeStory: [[spoiler: With a DownerEnding, tho.]]

The protagonist's birth name is Claudine de Montesse, otherwise known as Claude, a noble, regal, and extremely romantic young man. He is a trassexual man and struggles to reconcile his conception of himself with being born female. Born to a French noble family, he is aware of the fact he is a boy and shares a special father and son bond with his dad to whom he has the most resemblance of all his brothers; when he's ten years old, his well-intentioned but ignorant mother then takes him to a doctor. Claude reveals the nature of his life, the doctor comes to respect and understand him, and then we start to see how the complicated and tragic events of Claude's life begin to develop from the beginning to the end of the story. . .

* BuryYourGays Bury Your Trans-people: [[spoiler:Claude.]]

* [[spoiler: [[BuryYourGays Bury Your Trans-people]]: Claude.]]

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding]]

* [[spoiler: TheHeroDies: Poor, ''poor'' Claude.]]

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

* NotGoodWithRejection: This what drives [[spoiler:Claude to shoot himself dead after learning that Sirene dumps him for his older brother.]]

* [[spoiler: SpurnedIntoSuicide: What specifically pushes Claude into shooting himself dead is how Sirene, his third and last love, leaves him for his older brother Andre.]]

''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 Creator/RiyokoIkeda, published in Shueisha's ''Margaret'' in four chapters, and its only tankōbon was released on May 20, 1978. It's one of the first Japanese media to portray {{Transsexual}}ity.

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

* {{Transsexual}}: Claude is a trans man.

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

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

* YuriGenre: Subverted, since Claude searches for female love interests yet identifies as male despite his female body. Therefore, it'd be technically incorrect to classify this particular manga as yuri. Remember, kids: homosexuality and transsexuality are both LGBQT issues, but are ''very'' different.

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

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* JerkAss: Louis.

* ShutUpKiss: [[spoiler: Claude gives one to Maura when she's grieving over her father's sudden death. Claude's mom catches them and they have a huge fight, which leads to Claude going to the doctor for the second time.]]

* [[spoiler: TheHeroDies: Poor, ''poor'' Claudine.]]
* HotLibrarian: Cecilia Lacques, Claudine's second love, worked as the librarian of the local highschool.
* KickTheDog: When [[spoiler: Rosemarie "loses" Maura's first paycheck.]] Claudine notices what happened despite everyone else believing [[spoiler: it was lost in the mail]], but he doesn't say anything.

* InterGenerationalFriendship: The doctor (in his 40's at least) and Claudine (starts the story as a pre-teen boy, by the end is in his late teens)
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Louis Lacques, and Claudine.
* LoveDodecahedron: Claudine falls in love with Cecilia Lacques, but she doesn't return his affections because she sees him as a girl. Cecilia's younger brother, Louis, is sleeping with Claudine's father Auguste, [[spoiler: as is Cecilia]]. Rosemarie is in love with Claudine since they were kids, is jealous of Claudine and Cecilia and serves as an [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Unwitting]] ([[AlternateCharacterInterpretation or perhaps intentional]]) [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Instigator of Doom]] [[spoiler: when she reveals Cecilia 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. (Then again, her dad had just died so she had to go anyway).]] Cecilia? [[spoiler: She only likes Claudine as a friend, rejects his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, and later is murdered.]] Sirene? [[spoiler: She chooses Claudine's eldest brother Andre over him... and then Claudine offs himself.]]

* TheMourningAfter: [[spoiler:Rosemarie never stopped loving and caring for Claudine, and we see her visiting Claudine's grave.]]
* [[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.]]
* NoNameGiven: The Doctor, Claudine's mom
* NotGoodWithRejection: This what drives [[spoiler:Claudine to shoot himself dead after learning that Sirene dumps him for his older brother.]]

* ParentsAsPeople: Claudine's mother, who is a good person 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.]]
* ParentalFavoritism: Auguste favored Claudine among his children because he was the one more similar to himself. Claudine is said to be pretty much the "second coming" of Auguste.
* PrincelyYoungMan: Claudine and his brothers.

* RuleOfThree: Claudine falls in love with [[spoiler: and loses]] three women.

* SleepCute: A very fatigated and cold Maura falls asleep on Claudine's shoulder right after arriving to the Montesse home in a rainy day.
* 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 for the second time.]]
* SnowMeansDeath: [[spoiler:Claudine kills himself]] on a snowy night. It's still snowing when [[spoiler:Rosemarie visits his grave.]]
* [[spoiler: SpurnedIntoSuicide: What specifically pushes Claudine into shooting himself dead is how Sirene, his third and last love, leaves him for his older brother Andre.]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Claudine's brothers Andre, Edouard, and Thomas.

* UnrequitedLove: Claude, towards Cecilia. Rosemarie, for Claudine.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: When Claudine meets [[spoiler: Louis]], who mistakes him for a full-bodied boy.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: A distressed Rosemarie tells Louis about Claudine and Cecilia, not knowing that Louis was also Auguste's lover. Louis ''snaps'' massively and burns down Cecilia's house, killing her and Auguste, and leaving Rosemarie herself with severe burns in half of her face.]]
* UptownGuy: Claudine finds himself as such, when he falls for the maid Maura.

* YuriGenre: Subverted, since Claudine searches for female love interests yet identifies as male despite his female body. Therefore, it'd be technically incorrect to classify this particular manga as yuri. Remember, kids: homosexuality and transsexuality are both LGBQT issues, but are ''very'' different.

* {{Transsexual}}: Claudine is a trans man.
* UnrequitedLove: Claudine, towards Cecilia. Rosemarie, for Claudine.

Claudine...! (クローディーヌ...! Kurōdīne...!?) 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 chapters, and its only tankōbon was released on May 20, 1978. It's one of the first Japanese media to portray {{Transsexual}}ity.

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 chapters, and its only tankōbon was released on May 20, 1978. It's one of the first Japanese media to portray {{Transsexual}}ity.

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 at age eight; 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. . .

'''Note''': Claudine presents as male in story, and will be referred to as such in TVT-land.

* TheAce: At university, Claudine becomes this. Obviously, he's more of a BrokenAce.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: Claudine gives one to Cecilia, but is rejected.]]
* ArrangedMarriage: Claudine's parents.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Claudine and Cecilia bonded over their love of books and poetry.
* BreakTheCutie: Claudine, [[spoiler: Maura]], [[spoiler: Rosemarie]]
* BrokenBird: Claudine is a female-bodied-but-male-identifying example.
* [[spoiler: [[BuryYourGays Bury Your Trans-people]]: Claudine.]]
* 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 his third and last love, Sirene]].
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Claudine's neighbor Rosemarie is in love with him, she 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".

Claudine presents as male and will be referred to as such.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Rosemarie.

* DownerEnding

* ProperLady: Madame Montesse, and also Cecilia

* {{Transsexual}}: Claudine

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: When Claudine meets [[spoiler: 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 chapters, and its only tankōbon was released on May 20, 1978. It's one of the first Japanese media that treats {{Transsexual}}ity.

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Claudine's neighbor 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".

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