Okay, this is going to be a long image description, but sometimes the images for this comic get taken down, so I'd like to save a description.
[Image ID: A comic about a person wearing a Japanese school girl uniform.
We see a young girl from behind with long hair, in the uniform, standing on a train. As she thinks we get closer to her, revealing a nervous expression on her face. She thinks to herself "Does anybody notice? Do I look strange? This is my first time in this city... First time wearing this outfit... first time... as a girl. I'm so nervous I need to pee."
She gets off the train, trying to push through the crowd. The announcer says "Arriving at Shinjuku Station." She thinks "It's too crowded in here. Where's the bathroom? Ah! Please be empty!"
She choses the men's restrooms, only to be met by a single person at the urinals. The person is dressed in another school girl uniform, with a very feminine apperance, currently utinating. She says "Huh." in confusion, and the stranger turns around and smirks when they see her. She looks confused and distressed, wondering "How did it... turn out like this?!" as she takes the urinal next to the stranger to use it.
She thinks "The cubicles were all taken. Ahh... I can't hold it any longer... Why did they have to take the middle one?" The stranger peeks over at her and stares, amused. "Please just let this be over before it gets any worse," she thinks to herself, sweating with tears in her eyes.
A man in a suit walks in, sees the two of them dressed as girls but using urinals, turns on his heel and walks away. She gets a look of miserable acceptance.
She then walks away from the station. "Today has been awful. I want to go home..." she thinks, as the feminine stranger from before creeps up behind her. "Why are they following me!??" She wonders in alarm.
The stranger says "I'm hungry!" with a cheerful smile.
"Huhh..." She replies in disgust and confusion, but her stomach growls and the comic cuts to them in a restaurant. "Somehow... we ended up here..." She thinks.
The stranger sits next to her in the booth, shoulders shoved together, instead of sitting across. They smile wide, looking very happy, while she mutters "too close..."
She thinks "looks nice," at the burger her meal partner eats, but then looks confused at the omlette-rice she starts digging into. As the woman eats a single plate of sandwiches, the stranger's plates pile up, eating a lot and enjoying it all. "Oddly enough, for everything that happened today, this moment isn't so bad..." she thinks as she sips her tea. It transitions into a flashback.
We see a young boy, and a teenage girl standing side by side. "I loved my older sister," a voiceover explains, "I looked up to her, I wanted to be like her, and sometimes..." We see a school girl uniform, and then the young boy looking in a mirror, wearing that uniform. "I wanted to dress like her too." the voiceover finishes.
"It's still not the same, no matter how many times I tried. I hate this body. But in reality... the thing I hated most was the "me" that I could never be." We see the young boy's distraught face, and then a female version of it with long hair, looking down at him in smug contempt. "It only made me feel like a fake. If I could... I wish..."
Suddenly, the child's mother walks in. "Kou, did you remem–"
The child, Kou, turns around in shock, and looks distressed. "–ber..." the mom finishes.
Suddenly, the mother snaps a picture using her smartphone. "Did your sister put you up for this? You look adorable~" She says, laughing and patting Kou's head. They look upset, tears in their eyes.
"N- no. I– I just wanted to see how it would fit." Then, thinks privately "I just want to be a girl."
The mother looks surprised. "Aren't you a bit old for dress-up?" she asks. The girl, Kou, looks distant and upset, but the mother doesn't seem to notice, laughing at the picture on her phone. "Your sister will enjoy this."
"It was so strange," the voiceover says, "She wasn't angry, nor disappointed, yet for some reason... her flippant response hurt more. Like my identity was nothing more than a costume that could be taken off at any moment."
The mother says "Get changed before dinner!" cheerfully.
We see scenes of the girl joyfully changing from the boy's uniform into the girl's uniform. "Is it that weird for me to wear this? Is it so out of reach... this outfit?"
"–your outfit," the stranger says.
The girl is frowning down at her cup, then she looks up apologetically. "Sorry, what did you say? I was spacing out..."
The stranger grins. "What?" the girl asks.
"Your outfit," the stranger says, "it suits you."
The girl blushes. "A- alright, you can stop making fun of me..."
"I'm serious." The stranger replies.
"I don't know if they truly meant it," the firl thinks, looking back down at her tea. She's blushing and smiling, tears in her eyes. "but it really made me happy..."
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