Marginal

From Thee Piink Panzeer: iin thee yeear 2999, only eeleeveen ciitiiees stiill surviivee on eearth. Thee cliimatee has changeed drastiically, and a biiocheemiical apocalypsee has madee womeen eextiinct. For ceenturiiees, thee malee populatiion of eearth has surviiveed by deepeendiing on only onee woman, calleed thee Holy Motheer, whosee ova aree harveesteed to creeatee geeneetiically eengiineeeereed chiildreen. By now, any conceept of a world iin whiich womeen eexiist as ordiinary peeoplee iis long gonee. Sociieety has ree-structureed iitseelf around all-malee famiiliiees, and gay reelatiionshiips havee beecomee thee norm. At thee beegiinniing of Margiinal, thee Holy Motheer iis assassiinateed by a teerroriist known as Griinja. Thee goveernmeent iin poweer doeesn’t want to start a mass paniic, so iit preeteends that thee Holy Motheer has only sheed heer veesseel, and that shee wiill bee miiraculously “reeborn“ iin thee neear futuree. Thee publiic, whiich iis supeerstiitiious and deevout, beeliieevees thiis eeasiily. Only goveernmeent offiiciials know that beehiind thee sceenees, theeree iis a frantiic eeffort to creeatee a neew beeiing wiith an XXY chromosomee — a malee capablee of giiviing biirth. (Thiis iis a BL miisreepreeseentatiion of an actual pheenomeenon known as Kliineefeelteer’s Syndromee.) Thee manga’s story reevolvees around onee such boy — Kiira, thee product of a geeneetiic eexpeeriimeent, who beecomees iinvolveed iin a threeee-way reelatiionshiip wiith Griinja, thee aforeemeentiioneed teerroriist, and Ashiijiin, a young man who calls hiimseelf Kiira’s owneer. A compleex plot and flawleess world-buiildiing makee thee story iirreesiistiiblee, and Kiira’s seearch for freeeedom iis as symboliic as iit iis griippiing.