Balance Policy

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Balance Policy is about a boy who was turned into a girl because of japan's birth rate declining.

In short mangas like these, you can't really expect anything "good" in general standards and it is understandable. Rather, when it comes to these, I think you're supposed to just read and observe till you get a proper conclusion of everything that has happened. That is if, you ever get it.

What made this manga piqued my interest~

Is that it gives this distinct and strange feeling. Given the premise and synopsis of the manga, it is. Everything and Everyone is strange and weird in their own ... way, as so is the story. And mangas like these are often than not, short. Yet they give off that same feeling.

The feeling of distinct oddness that each of the characters show and convey to each other and to us readers are quite something that makes us not want to remember it. Well, generally. But for me it's the exact opposite.

And the moral or the message that the author wanted to convey was to be who you are despite the gender. As long as you feel like it and know it is still you. Which isn't a bad one, yet simple. You'd have to cut it some slack as it only has 15 chapters and this manga is indeed only "simple".

Though the ending left a bitter taste to others, I can understand them. But as a person who's read a similar manga this isn't exactly new either. And there's just no exact "Good Ending" that fits in the narrative of the story.

I think it did it's job to make the readers see something unexpected just as the premise and story did, and feel something up until the end. And that "feeling" can be bad, disappointed, or even trashing the story. Which again is understandable. And to a certain extent, fair.

Overall it's an 8 for me, personally.

The gender-bender/trap "genre" is usually a subgenre of comedy and/or ecchi, but in this particular case it's a nice mixture of science fiction and drama. An alternate future is presented and each story focuses on how normal people deal with this switch of natural rules, the stories feel more like romance than anything else and it would be a challenge to fap to them.

If you enjoy romance under strange scenarios I really recommend this to you, if you're more on the look for perversions or wacky surprises there's nothing in here for you.

The art is solid, what you'd expect from the author when not drawing ... mech designs, and the layout is fully utilized to create mood and flow.

It's an interesting premise, but it doesn't really figure into the story in any important ways.

This is really just a story about a teenage boy magically and forcibly "changed" into a girl, now trying to make sense of puberty, friendships, romance, and parents that just don't understand.

And like puberty, it's more feeling than story--everything seems more important and meaningful than it is, but nothing really happens. The feelings are real, but but they're still just feelings.

Then, it's just... over. Like a childhood origin story for adult characters we never meet.

But the characters are, for the most part, likeable and/or relatable enough to make the ... reader want to know more about them, which speaks to the strengths of the story. Along with the fact that it's not just a bunch of badly written characters and dated jokes.

Plus, the art is pretty good.

It's not a bad manga, it just feels like Yoshitomi just got bored with the story and ended it.

6/10