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{{quote| ''"Gilbert Cocteau, you were the greatest flower to ever bloom in my life. In the faraway dreams of youth, you were a bright red flame, blazing so fiercely...You were the wind that stirred my branches. Can you hear [[Title Drop|the poem of the wind and trees?]] Can you hear the tumult of our youth? Oh, there must be others who so remember their own days of youth....''"}}

'''''Kaze To Ki No Uta''''', also known as either "''The Song of Wind and Trees''" or "''The Poem of Wind and Trees''," is a 17-volume manga series by [[Keiko Takemiya]] that was written from 1976 to 1984. It was one of the first [[Shoujo]] manga to focus on a homosexual relationship between boys and the first to have sex play a major role in the story; Takemiya, along with then-roommate and fellow mangaka [[Moto Hagio]], is credited with kickstarting the shounen-ai genre (Takemiya's earlier work, "''In the Sunroom''" was the first manga to have shounen-ai elements). The series, though controversial, was able to win the prestigious Shogakukan Manga award for shojo in 1979, as well as now being regarded as a classic.

Also has a [[Kaze to Ki no Uta (Manga)/Characters|character sheet]], so please help out with the blurbs!

* [[Art Evolution]] - Compare the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140904080605/http://manga.animea.net/kaze-to-ki-no-uta-chapter-4-page-3.html art of the earlier volumes] of the manga with the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120807111636/http://fuckyeahtakemiya.tumblr.com/post/11063627615/yomigaere-jules-bb-sometimes-there-are-things art of later volumes.]

* [[Beautiful All Along]] - Patricia, although she really [[Hollywood Homely|wasn't all that unattractive to begin with]].

* [[Big Fancy House]] - The chateau 'Cherubin de la Mer' and the Battour estate.

** Possibly subverted with Pascal, who has proven to be more than capable of doing well in classes, but has failed three years in a row because he prefers to spend his time studying more useful/interesting things (like knitting).

* [[Broken Bird]] - Gilbert could probably count as one of those rare male examples. For comparison, have a look at another male example, Souma in the manga series ''[[Sakura Gari]]'', which has a lot of similarities in style with ''KazeKi'', with both Souma and Gilbert having very similar backstories and behaviour (i.e. rape, trauma, death, and a ''lot'' of [[Break the Cutie]]).

* {{spoiler|[[Bury Your Gays]]/ [[Death Byby Sex]] - Poor Gilbert didn't have a chance, did he?}}

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]] / {{spoiler|[[Rape Asas Backstory]]}} - Gilbert, Auguste, and Rosemarine, to different degrees. Gilbert [[Trauma Conga Line|got the worst of it]].

* [[A Day in Thethe Limelight]] - ''Koufuku no Hato'', the one-shot epilogue to the story, focuses on Rosemarine and Jules.

** Gilbert actually ''is'' mistaken for a girl a couple of times as a child. It's not a difficult mistake to make when he's 9-119–11 years old and wearing flimsy clothing.

* [[Friend to All Living Things]] - Gilbert was like this as a small child; he was once seriously injured trying to save a fox from a group of hunting dogs.

* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]] - Auguste has some rather nasty scarring on his torso {{spoiler|from when his step-brother tried to [[Kill It Withwith Fire|burn him]] after discovering Auguste was sleeping with his wife}}. On the good side, Angeline has some noticable burn-scarring on her face {{spoiler|following an incident where her hair caught alight on a fireplace when she was trying to save Serge from a punishment she thought he didn't deserve}}.

* [[High -Class Call Girl]] - Paiva.

* [[Impoverished Patrician]] - Jules de Ferrier.

* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"]] - Gilbert (jeel-behr), among others. [[Justified Trope|To be expected]] since most, if not all, of the cast is French.

* [[Wife Husbandry|Lover Husbandry]] - what Auguste does to Gilbert as a child comes very close to this, manipulating, torturing and warping his mind so he'll be absolutely devoted to him, "his puppet" as he calls him. The only difference is that the "lover" part seems to have been initially unintentional, and that [[Shotacon|Auguste didn't wait until he was an adult]]... or [[Rape Is Love|wait until he was even 10 years old]]. There's a lot of [[Squick]] in their relationship, to say the least.

* [[New Transfer Student]] - Serge.

* [[Odd Friendship]] - Deeply religious, straight-laced, hard working honour student Karl and rebellious, eccentric, [[Brilliant but Lazy]] atheist Pascal. Serge strikes something of a balance between the two, but they were friends before they met him.

* [[Race For Your Love]]

* [[School Uniforms Are the New Black]] - Ususally justified by the setting, although not always (for example, characters are often shown in other clothes in the dorms, suggesting they're not mandatory outside of school hours, yet Serge and Gilbert still wore theirs for most of the summer vacation).

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]] - Seemingly the only reason Gilbert hasn't been expelled despite the fact that he rarely goes to classes and engages in a lot of very un-catholic activities with other students.

** Also, in volume two, some boys are seen completing an ''[[Astro Boy (Mangamanga)|Astro Boy]]'' jigsaw puzzle. [[MST3K Mantra|We'll just ignore how little sense that makes in 19th century France.]]

* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]] - Is the school named Lacombrade or Laconblade? Meanwhile, the headaches that the characters' names cause are covered on the character sheet; Gilbert's about the only one whose name is spelt consistently.

** Also Pascal. Occasionally bordering on [[Mad Scientist]].

* [[Wide -Eyed Idealist]] - Serge, to a degree. [[Break the Cutie|Less so later on]].

* [[When He Smiles]]: Gilbert, as Serge comments on very early on in chapter 4.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] - Gilbert, Gilbert, Gilbert, Gilbert.

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