Wandering Son(放浪息子Hōrō Musuko) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takako Shimura. It began serialization in the December 2002 issue of the monthly seinen manga magazine Comic Beam. The first bound volume was released by Enterbrain in July 2003 in Japan; as of March 2010, ten volumes have been released. Wandering Son was selected as a recommended work by the awards jury of the tenth Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006. The series is licensed in English by Fantagraphics Books, which is scheduled to release the first volume in North America in December 2010. An anime adaptation was announced.