Kanojo ni Naru Hi

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[ Contains Spoilers ] ( First Review For Manga Without Adaptation And Boy x Girl )

When I was thinking about what I should write in this review for this manga. I thought about the manga's story about how the boy became a girl and imaged myself in that scenario as the MC. Imagining my friend become a girl.. It's unimaginable in fact but it does sound quite humorous. Fun fact, just right after I finished pondering and I read the next page ( final chapter - around where their daughter grew ). The name of my "childhood" friend pops up as the name of ... their daughter, making me laugh like crazy and accidentally woke my mom up. Bwahahahahaha! What are the chances?! This is probably the most funny and coincidental romance manga I've ever read in my entire life.

Okay, aside from the occurrence. The manga's actually okay itself and held the romance standard pretty well. I was actually reading this in the toilet instead of masturbating because I suddenly felt bored and boy thanks to this manga I think that I'd be able to open up to more manga now. Kanojo ni Naru Hi is, well, a pretty hot romance manga that does live up to my expectations ( because it was able to make me forget about masturbating, it's pretty adept ).

This manga is also the first boy x girl manga I've ever read without any adaptations and I think that this is a good start. I'm planning to read more manga and perhaps review them and that's all thanks to this anime for opening the path for me into the world of manga.

This manga's pretty good. You can read it if you want but at the same time it's not necessary. The only reason why i gave it 10/10 is because my scale is pretty low and pretty much anything that can make me happy can get 10/10. That is all.

A brief summary of my thoughts is that, Kanojo ni Naru Hi isn't bad but it's not great either. Read it if you want, just don't take it too seriously.

With that out of the way, Kanojo ni Naru Hi is a manga that, more so then any other I've read, will vary depending on what you want this manga to be. Don't get what I mean, that's fine I'll try to elaborate.

The first thing you'll notice when you approach this manga is the premise, a guy spontaneously transforms into a girl and it's out of his, or her, control. After that it follows ... the misadventures of the guy who was best friends with the newly made female before she was a she. With this premise the first thing one might assume is that it's going to tackle gender issues, acceptance of oneself, and challenging common views on the two subjects.

But it really doesn't do that much. The manga portrays two sides, the side that thinks emergence is disgusting and the side that thinks it's fine. But neither side manages to portray their side outside of shallow emotional knee-jerk reactions.

In regards to the side that looks down on emergence, it's understandable the stance they take. Whether or not you support transgenderism or not, the reality is that it is a small subculture of human life. It's a foreign thing that very well may frighten or disgust people, especially if they have a preconceived notion of gender and sex. And on the other hand, if someone experiences transgenderism, or in the case of this manga 'emergence,' it's something that is outside of the individuals control. The individual likely didn't ask to be put in a position like they are in. And even if it was their choice, it is their choice and no one else should control their life.

See that previous paragraph is comprised of simple arguments for both sides that I came up with in maybe fifteen minutes, but the author couldn't manage to do the same in the entire publishing time. Instead of posing questions that challenges how people think on both sides of the issues the author goes down the path of "We should accept everyone," which is fine if that's what you want to read, but I was disappointed.

Instead when I look at it, and it's side story "Kanojo ni Naru Hi Another," both are much better read as stories about accepting oneself, especially Another. They both do decent jobs tackling how different individuals may feel, even if some of the romance is forced, and when read with that idea in your mind they're fun.

If you want to read something that better tackles the idea of sexual and gender identity, go read "Himegoto: Juukyuusai no Seifuku" or "Shimanami Tasogare." They tackle the previously mentioned ideas in real ways that help you understand what the characters face.

Other wise if you just want to read something that touches these issues on a surface level with average art but good character development, Kanojo ni Naru Hi is an alright pick.

This is my first time writing a review, so I apoligize if I do a poor job.
Despite that though, I have to say this is a manga I've read the entirety of, and could never find myself enjoying.
So, what is it that makes this story so awful to me? It's the complete and flagrant disrespect and ignorance towards transgender people. (please note that I myself am not trans, but as someone of the lgbt community, this still bothers me)

Story: I'm a huge fan of shoujo, and I kept seeing this manga around, so I decided to finally read it. I'll be keeping this short, ... and trying to highlight the main problems I had with it.

So, we have our two main characters, one of which has just been turned biologically female. From the beginning, it miffed me how they started to immediently refer to Nao as weaker then before, and started using female pronouns. It's alright in the end because Nao herself was comfortable with it. I liked Nao's loose views on gender, and thought this story might be trying to say that people are the same, no matter what gender they are, biolgically or otherwise, but I could not have been more wrong.

When Nao started being viewed as nothing more then a character to project sexual advances onto, it was...disapointing to say the least. What plays out afterwards is your standard romance, accept for the fact that the female MC is almost always seen as nothing more than a doll. I enjoyed her personality, but even still, this story can't really be saved by just her.

Now, I'll be going into the two inccidents in the manga that bothered me the most. First is the only actual trans character. I don't remember much about her, except that she desperately wanted to undergo the emergence, and be able to biologically transition the female, and so, was doing research on Nao. Despite this though, other characters constantly refer to her as a man, and act as though Nao should be wary of her because "that's still a man afterall".

The second inccident is the bath house story. The son of a bathhouse owner the MCs went to has just undergone emergence, and had went into the mens bath, much to Miyoshi's horror. They procceed to treat this kid as a female, despite him being very much still male on the inside, and act as though he should just get over it already and accept that he's now a girl. I think I don't need to explain while this is a problem.

I'm not saying this manga is a crime against humanity, or that you're wrong for likeing and enjoying it!! These are all my opinion, and I know I'm focusing on the negatives....but when the negatives are this huge to me...it's hard to see anything else.