Shigeru excels at that, every Shounen Zoom volume it's about boys being boys, there's a sense of deep yearning for boyhood in all of his works. I guess cherishing the youth it's a very japanese thing, but this feeling is multiplied by tenfold if this is the subject matter. There's a fleeting moment in your life, long before developing homosexual tendencies, where you and the other boys lived in the same world.