Kaze to Ki no Uta Sanctus: Sei Naru Kana (1987)
November 6, 1987Release Date
Kaze to Ki no Uta Sanctus: Sei Naru Kana (1987)
November 6, 1987Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Noriko Ohara
Serge Batouille
Yuko Sasaki
Gilbert Cocteau
Kaneto Shiozawa
Auguste Beau
Hiroshi Takemura
Pascal Biquet (voice)
Yoshiko Sakakibara
Rosemarine
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Director
Tsutomu Kashiwakura
Carl Meiser (voice)
Keiko Takemiya
Writer
Nobuyuki Nakamura
Composer
Akihiko Takahashi
Cinematographer
Toki Udagawa
Producer
Masahiro Matsumura
Editor
Keiko Takemiya
Author
Show Hayami
Jack Dren
Yamako Ishikawa
Art Direction / Sound Supervisor
Yoshimi Asari
Producer's Assistant
Sachiko Kamimura
Animation Director
Tatsuya Hiramatsu
Production Manager
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 6, 1987
Original Name風と木の詩 SANCTUS-聖なるかな-
StatusReleased
Running Time1h
Genres
Wiki.
Kaze to Ki no Uta (Japanese: 風と木の詩, lit. "The Poem of Wind and Trees" or "The Song of Wind and Trees") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Keiko Takemiya. It was serialized in the manga magazine Shūkan Shōjo Comic from 1976 to 1980, and in the manga magazine Petit Flower from 1981 to 1984. One of the earliest works in the shōnen-ai (male–male romance) genre, Kaze to Ki no Uta follows the tragic romance between Gilbert Cocteau and Serge Battour, two students at an all-boys boarding school in late 19th-century France.
The series was developed and published amid a significant transitional period for shōjo manga (manga for girls), as the medium shifted from an audience composed primarily of children to an audience of adolescents and young adults. This shift was characterized by the emergence of narratively more complex stories focused on politics, psychology, and sexuality, and came to be embodied by a new generation of shōjo manga artists collectively referred to as the Year 24 Group, of which Takemiya was a member. The mature subject material of Kaze to Ki no Uta and its focus on themes of sadomasochism, incest, and rape were controversial for shōjo manga of the 1970s; it took nearly seven years from Takemiya's initial conceptualization of the story for her editors at the publishing company Shogakukan to agree to publish it.
Upon its eventual release, Kaze to Ki no Uta achieved significant critical and commercial success, with Takemiya winning the 1979 Shogakukan Manga Award in both the shōjo and shōnen (manga for boys) categories for Kaze to Ki no Uta and Toward the Terra, respectively. It is regarded as a pioneering work of shōnen-ai, and is credited by critics with widely popularizing the genre. An anime film adaptation of the series, Kaze to Ki no Uta Sanctus: Sei Naru Kana (風と木の詩 SANCTUS-聖なるかな-, lit. "The Poem of Wind and Trees Sanctus: Is It Holy?"), was released as an original video animation (home video) in 1987.