Seibetsu "Mona Lisa" no Kimi e.
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Manga involving different sexualities and gender identities, aside from heterosexual, lesbian, gay & cisgender.

Important mention: I am only including manga that focus on the sexuality/gender of the queer characters (at least quite a bit) or their journey to discovering themselves. So just having a queer character in a manga is not enough.

If you're looking for short reviews for each one, I do have a post on my blog discussing them. Unfortunately, I can't provide a link here, but you can find one on my profile.

I love reading tragic and twisted romance. So I made this stack for myself and also for the people who enjoy reading them. Hope you'll be able to find something new through this stack ^^


I have a stack for "Short Psychological Manga" if anyone is interested 
Here's the link:

https://myanimelist.net/stacks/7723

This is a list of works focusing on stories where characters experience gender or biological sex shifts as a significant part of the plot.

There is either a supernatural or major psychological component to all of these entries. Pure crossdressing works are excluded.

Comments for each entry are currently a work in progress.

Notable works that are not on MAL (yet; currently in pending approval queue):
Saki to Mika; by Sakujirou

DISCLAIMER: not every title on this list is trying to be a "good and realistic representation". But I believe even "problematic" depictions are worthy of note. You've been warned.

List of manga with non-binary characters(aka X-gender in Japan): protagonists, main characters and side characters. I tried to include only the confirmed ones.

Note: arranged in the order of release. Some of the titles are NSFW.

Work in progress!

Not found on MAL: Watashi no Kanojo wa Otoko no Ko(2018), Alien Idol(2018), Douruanki(2019).

Some manga that features a non-binary/x-gender character. Some are headcanons- those are indicated by question marks.

Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/37987


Extra non-binary manga that's not on MAL (yet):

Onna no Karada ga Iya nano de Mune wo Torimashita
Kazuki (x-gender) (protagonist)

Then I saw RuPaul's Drag Race': coming out as X-gender in Tokyo
M. A. Joy (x-gender) (protagonist)

Kyouhaku sei Shougai desu!
Asuka Miyazaki (x-gender) (protagonist)

Kyouhaku sei Shougai Chiryou Nikki
Asuka Miyazaki (x-gender) (protagonist)

Unknown Color
Chiaki Hinaga (non-binary) (protagonist)

Quintet×Question
Mokuba Ao (x-gender) (main)

Bloody Chinatown
Kanaya (gender-free) (main)

Bara Shishaku
Gideon (genderless/gender ambiguous?) (main)

Manga with asexual (ace) and/or aromantic (aro) characters. Some are headcanons- those are indicated by question marks.


Not on MAL (yet):

Soujitsu/Soushitsu
Mio (aro) (main)

1% no Koi: Doutei no Boku to Asexual na Kanojo
Ritsuka Mizuno (straight and ace)

17.3 about a sex: Watashitachi no Real
Tsugumi Hara (aroace) (main)

Koi wa Nai Kedo, Kekkon Shimasu!
Sachiko (aroace) (main)

Hadashi no Seimei
Asuka Sakurai (aro) (main)

Love-Razu: Koi ga Wakaranai Danjo no Hanashi
Hayami (aro) (main)
Tsukase (aro) (main)

Tamago no Tsurezure
Iori Morita (aro?ace) (protagonist)

Friends Until the Fourth Verse
Jin Hyung-In (gay and ace-spec) (main)

Manga that aren't about trans characters but, like, really are about trans characters

some of the manga have aroace characters too

We asked passionate readers which manga you need to read now—and here are the results!

Finalists are listed in the following order: Main List, Unique Art/Story, Should Be Anime, Best for Beginners. Every title is officially available outside Japan in at least one language, with one or more volumes published in 2023.


Official Challenge Stack
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2. Choose a manga you haven't started reading yet
3. Read at least 2 volumes of that manga by April 30th

*　Manga you started reading before the challenge began (Feb 25) will not count. Pick something new!

*　Please make sure to write the number of volumes you read in your manga list. If you have 0 volumes read in your list, you won't get the badge.

More manga featuring LGBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, binary transgender, non-binary, genderqueer, intersex, queer, pansexual, asexual, aromantic, etc.) characters in non-BL/non-GL manga. Some are headcanons- those are indicated by question marks.

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/37019


Not on MAL (yet):

"Onna" to shite Idakaretai...Seitenkan shite, Hatsukoi wo Mou Ichido.
Sanae Takahashi (trans woman) (protagonist)
Machiko (trans woman) (supporting)

Akarui
Maki Sanada (trans boy) (protagonist)

Chiguharu
Tooru/Tohru (trans man) (protagonist)
Yuki (trans woman) (main)

Gay Fuuzoku no H Jijou
Kazuaki (gay) (protagonist)
Nori (gay) (main)

Girlfriend
Megumi Makimura (bi) (protagonist)
Kaoru Shirasaki (trans woman) (main)

Itsuka Shinu Shoujo
Yuuki Akai (trans girl and lesbian?) (main)

Kamisama, Boku wo Koroshite Kudasai - Otoko no Karada de Umareta Jigoku
Subaru Kawase (trans girl) (protoagonist)

Ore no Karada wa Nande Onna Nanda?
Ryuutarou "Ryuu" Suzumiya (trans man) (protagonist)

Otto wa Jitsu wa Josei Deshita
Tsushima Tsushima (pan) (protagonist)
Wafuko Tsushima (trans woman and queer) (main)

Sayonara Chinchin Welcome Manman ~OL ni Naritakute Seibetsu Tekigo Shujutsu shimashita~
Yoriko "Yoripi" Kamikawa (trans woman and lesbian)

finding oneself

Transgender (binary trans, non-binary, and/or intersex) manga with official English (at least partial) translations. Some of my trans labels are headcanons- those are indicated by question marks.
Organized roughly by release order in Japan.

(My definition of a trans manga is one that has a main trans character. Them being transgender may or may not be a big impact on the story.)


Not on MAL:

"Onna" toshite Idakaretai... Seitenkan Shite, Hatsukoi wo Mou Ichido./Hold Me, Baby, As a Lady... -First Love Again in the Body of a Woman.
Sanae Takahashi (trans woman) (protagonist)
Machiko (trans woman) (supporting)

Kamisama, Boku wo Koroshite Kudasai - Otoko no Karada de Umareta Jigoku/The Pain of Living in a Male Body
Subaru Kawase (trans girl) (protagonist)

Akarui/Light
Maki Sanada (trans boy) (protagonist)
*published in English release of Boys Run the Riot

Manga I gave a 10/10

I realized I had more queer trans characters to write about. Some are headcanons- those are indicated by question marks.

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39952