Kakumei no Hi
The Day of Revolution

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Though it is true this manga isn't a paragon on what intersexuality is, and despite the fact it getting axed took away a lot of potential for the story to mature and get better, I still find it a heartwarming story even with the classic shoujo cliches and annoying type jokes from the time, and is still a very advanced story considering it was published in 1999. It's nice to see how Megumi's intersexuality isn't a factor for her family breaking apart, but instead brings them together once again, and how losing her friendship with her former clique, and being suddenly subjected to the type ... of things women are subjected to, is in fact very overwhelming for her (even if everyone hounding her for a date is played for laughs, her feelings about the matter are still very much there). Again, this story could have developed much more if only it could have gone for longer, but as it is, it's a very light, enjoyable read about an intersex girl finding love and trust.

I joined just to rate this. Which means something happens in the manga to totally make it hard to enjoy. I'll do the first part without any spoilers. The problem I have with the manga is the representation of the character. It is immediately assumed that she will marry a man once the change has happened. While I'm glad this deals with the issue on genotype women with phenotype male characteristics, it immediately trivializes women and what they want in general. She is ignored and brings this point up continually.
All ... the guys harangue her, including her new friend who herself is a woman, about how she must completely fill the gender role. She never becomes really more feminine (after telling her to be constantly) only visually beautiful. This seems to satisfy everyone because the main reason they are satisfied, appears in the ending.

It was portrayed to me at first mostly, as guy finds out she's actually a woman and decides to take the surgery. Then is still attracted to women.

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////She//// becomes//// attracted////to////// guys//and//dates//one///////
All the time for most of the manga she is attracted to women, and is shown constantly her attraction to females is now trivial. So after surgery and still attracted to women, a guy proclaims that she is a woman and should be taken by him because he is a man so she is attracted to him. Before all this she was practically going out with a girl. Suddenly once he proclaims this her heart beats and that's the end of it. Never mind this happened every time she touched her girlfriend. Her hormones were already in effect before, she fainted because they were just increasing, so saying it's a surge of new hormones is not logical and so degrading to women on so many levels.

I'd be fine if this wasn't so against the idea of Yuri. The men make light of her association with women and infer that it is something to be cast aside because it wont last. The one girlfriend is given many character flaws and is ambivalent after being an ideal significant other for the first half of the manga. Then suddenly shows character flaws once the guy she is to date is introduced. Why should a person suffering under this condition, have to be attracted to men after surgery which only changes her outward appearance and her girlfriend suddenly become unappealing? The story falls apart in my opinion at that moment. Why it's OK to tackle one issue and not support the other I don't know.

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Edit: Aside from this main issue, the story is well done which only makes the bias worse and more intentional. If the main character hadn't been so staunch in her first belief I might not have felt this way.

Combining a real world thing like intersex and a slightly more grounded setting than a lot of similar gender transformation sort of manga ends up making all the standard tropes creepier than the norm is for the genre. This is a genre with a lot of extremely problematic tropes to begin.

The protagonist's decision to transition is treated as a given and his opposition to the idea when they find out that most people don't do that is overridden by their parents with bad joke justification. The reason the protagonist gives for transitioning is that they wouldn't look like a man or be able to be ... fully a man, which is an insulting bad reason.

The sexual harassment by their friends is treated as mostly comedic.

Homosexuality is never really considered to any real degree. Everybody just treats the idea the main character will date men and not have any romantic relationships with women as a given.

The protagonist's wishes on everything is almost always ignored by supposedly supportive friends.

I was able to guess who the protagonist would end up dating almost as soon as the character appeared.

There are three characters who matter and have much of personality. This would not be a problem if I liked the characters, but I didn't. The protagonist is extremely reactive and doesn't make many decisions for themself without essentially being forced into it by others. The only female character with much of a presence in the story besides the protagonist is mostly there to pressure the protagonist into doing a bunch of different things. Her brother is characterized almost completely by hating being seen as not really a man because he is meek. Otherwise, he was really boring and without much of a personality. The gang the protagonist used to hang out with consists of interchangeable characters without any real personality differences that matter.

The art was fine but nothing memorable.