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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....''"}}
It is 1880 at Lacombrade Academy, an all-boy's boarding school in France. Serge Battour is a cheerful and kind [[New Transfer Student|new student]] who is trying to fit in with the rest of the student body, despite the taboo of his [[Roma|Gypsy heritage]], made obvious by his dark skin. However, his roommate Gilbert Cocteau - who will sleep with anyone if he can manipulate them to his advantage by doing so - is not helping the situation, especially when he makes it his personal goal to bring about Serge's downfall. [[Will They or Won't They?|The two boys may destroy each other or come closer together.]] {{spoiler|[[Bittersweet Ending|Or both.]]}}
''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.
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Also has a [[Kaze to Ki no Uta (Manga)/Characters|character sheet]], so please help out with the blurbs!
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* [[The Ace]] - Serge is smart, athletic, good looking and, among other things, a musical prodigy and an excellent equestrian.
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* [[Berserk Button]] - Don't call someone 'dirty' when [[Son of a Whore|Serge]] can hear you.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]] - Serge can have quite a temper, and may God help you if you hit his abovementioned [[Berserk Button]].
* [[Bi the Way]] - Serge, [[If
* [[Big Fancy House]] - The chateau 'Cherubin de la Mer' and the Battour estate.
* [[Bishie Sparkle]] - Gilbert has a pretty serious case of this.
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** 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 9-11 years old and wearing flimsy clothing.
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]] - It seems like nearly every male character would be willing to have sex with Gilbert, if they haven't already done so.
* [[Evil Uncle]] - Auguste {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father|or so we are initially led to believe]]}}.
* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]] - Gilbert has no fewer than ''three'' of these over the course of the manga.
* [[Expy]] - If you watch the full-length ''[[Toward the Terra]]'' anime, be sure to look out for Serge Starjon.
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* [[Gonk]] - The character designs of some of the extras are...interesting.
* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]] - Auguste has some rather nasty scarring on his torso {{spoiler|from when his step-brother tried to [[Kill It With 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}}.
* [[Gorgeous Period Dress]] - School uniform aside, Gilbert's ''entire wardrobe'' seems to consist of this.
* [[Hates Being Touched]] - Rosemarine, by everyone except Jules and later Serge. {{spoiler|It's all Auguste's fault.}}
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* [[Incurable Cough of Death]] - Serge's father died of [[Victorian Novel Disease|tuberculosis]].
* [[Internal Monologue]] - Lots of these.
* [[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.
* [[Kaneto Shiozawa]] - The voice of Auguste in the OVA.
* [[Kick the Dog]] - Pretty much everything Auguste does, and then some.
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* [[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.
* [[The Ojou]] - Angeline.
* [[One
* [[Parental Abandonment]] - Serge's parents died within a year of one another when he was very young. Gilbert's moved away without him {{spoiler|after his mother went a bit crazy and [[Offing the Offspring|tried to kill him]]... when he was still ''an infant'', no less}}.
* [[Parental Incest]]/[[Villainous Incest]] - {{spoiler|Gilbert and Auguste. Gilbert [[Driven to Suicide|does not take this revelation well.]]}}
* [[Peek
* [[Pimped
* [[Plenty of Blondes]]: All but about three of the female characters are blonde, and a rather large number of the males as well. Possibly related to the [[Phenotype Stereotype]].
* [[Princess Curls]] - Rosemarine and Angeline.
* [[Purple Eyes]] - Rosemarine.
* [[Really Gets Around]] - Gilbert. Clearly established on the ''first page''.
* [[
* [[Rape and Switch]] - {{spoiler|Gilbert and Auguste. The former was raped first by Bonnard and then by his own father-posing-as-uncle when he was nine, and the latter was raped by his stepbrother at a young age.}}
* [[Rape Leads to Insanity]]: {{spoiler|Gilbert and Auguste}}, which is related to the [[Rape and Switch]] trope above. Needless to say, these incidents are the reason how the two guys became so screwed up, especially Gilbert.
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* [[Romantic Runner Up]] - Patricia.
* [[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.
* [[Shout Out]]
** Serge's father was named Aslan, almost certainly in reference to ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]''.
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* [[Slipping a Mickey]] - If {{spoiler|Auguste}} offers you wine, drink it at your own risk.
* [[Smoking Hot Sex]] - Serge does this at one point in what is probably the closest thing the series gets to full-on [[Fan Service]].
* [[So Beautiful
* [[Something Else Also Rises]] - easy to miss, but some of those "random shôjo flower moments" actually read as this.
* [[Spell My Name With 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.
* [[Spiritual Successor]] - To Takemiya's earlier oneshot ''Natsu e no Tobira'' (''The Door to Summer''), in that they both revolve around 14-year-old boys at a French boarding school.
* [[Spot of Tea]] - Tea seems to be involved in nearly all of Jules' scenes, and at one point he rambles about how much it means to him.
* [[Star
* [[Student Council President]] - Rosemarine seems to be an entire [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]] in and of himself.
* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]] - Gilbert invokes this with Carl on purpose to get him to leave him alone.
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* [[Tsutomu Kashiwakura]] - Carl's voice actor in the OVA.
* [[Wide Eyed Idealist]] - Serge, to a degree. [[Break the Cutie|Less so later on]].
* [[Will They or Won't They?]] - {{spoiler|They do}}.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]] - Serge gets this quite a few times, especially in the 16th volume.
* [[When He Smiles]]: Gilbert, as Serge comments on very early on in chapter 4.
* [[The White Prince]] - This is Rosemarine's nickname, though Serge's father Aslan fits the actual trope better.
* [[White
* [[Whole Episode Flashback]] or, more accurately, ''six volume'' flashback, with three volumes devoted to [[Backstory|Gilbert's childhood and three devoted to how Serge's parents met and his early life.]]
* [[The X of Y]]
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