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Kanojo ni Naru Hi asks the modern question, "What would you do if somebody you knew switched genders?"

But another strikes closer to the heart, "What if that masculine, male friend that you had always relied on, that friend who would do anything to make sure/help you succeed, that friend that would hide in the background and help you ask that girl you like out--what would you do if that friend went from an alpha male to a soft-skinned, beautiful female?"

In Kanojo ni Naru Hi, the author, Akane Ogura illustrates the struggles of a young man named Miyoshi, who is conflicted as to how to ... deal with his (now-evolved female) best friend. The one friend--and person--he most looked up to as a man, has become a woman. "Do I treat her like a woman, or like a man like I always have?" Stuck between personal desires and social correctness, Miyoshi is stuck at odds as to how far he should go for his friend.

Equally conflicted is his best friend, Mamiya, who now must live life with the body of a girl. In a new world as a seemingly much more vulnerable human being (having once been accustomed to the strength of a man), Mamiya doesn't know how to deal with being a woman, resulting in an internal turmoil of feelings that she cannot explain or understand, both to herself and Miyoshi.

As one reads this gripping, fast-paced manga, one begins to wonder if this is in a way, a propaganda manga in which the author is trying to vouch for acceptance of Transgender Women and Men, or if this was merely an experience the author had felt that she wishes to portray within this manga. The struggles

Whatever be the case, this manga is a worthy read. With every page turned within this manga, the desire to receive the mysterious answers to our own, modern questions only grows stronger and our thirst grows deeper. Every page is filled with thoughts, with underlying meaning that can only be groped once read. And when the chapter ends, our hearts and minds groan out and desire for more--only to be filled with endless, seemingly unanswerable questions, with our minds and eyes always seeking the answers in the chapters ahead.

4.5 out of 5 Stars, for the fast-paced, but nothing short of excellent, Kanojo ni Naru Hi.

-Jayex-

P.s. Mangas that have not been completed to do not receive a 5 out of 5 stars. When the manga has been completed, and the Conclusion (and remaining chapters have proved to be of equal, not lesser quality then the chapters before it), then I will re-edit this and give this a 5 out of 5.

Thank you for reading this Review.

I've had mixed experiences reading gender-bender manga.

The better ones showed that gender is a social construct - that gender plays no role in determining who a person is or what they are capable of, and that preferences, hobbies, behavioral patterns... none of these are influenced by a person's gender, but rather by society's perception of gender and its need to assert gender roles.

The worse ones were quick to impose gender roles, swiftly establishing the Do's and Don'ts of being male or female, mercilessly confining their characters to a strict set of behaviors 'appropriate' to their respective genders.

Kanojo ni Naru Hi belongs to the latter.

I am not a big fan of gender benders, but Kanojo ni Naru Hi is already becoming one of my favorite manga.

Kanojo ni Naru Hi is about 2 childhood friends, Miyoshi & Mamiya. One day, Mamiya is hospitalized and goes through what is known as an emergence: the changing of genders. What will now become of the friendship between Miyoshi & Mamiya?

Unlike most gender benders, Kanojo ni Haru Hi isn't trying to go for comedy using the gender bender concept. There certainly are hilarious moments as a result of the change, but Kanojo is mainly aiming for drama. The manga explores a plethora of ... topics. For example, how does society perceive people who emerged? On a much smaller scale, is it possible for Miyoshi to fall in love with Mamiya? If so, will those feelings remain unchanged even if Mamiya were to revert back to a guy? Plus what would society think of their relationship?

More than anything, Kanojo ni Haru Hi is a story about how love triumphs all. As long as it is sincere, things like gender and opinions aren't going to get in your way. In this manga, we get to see a heart-warming relationship between 2 people who genuinely love each other regardless of gender and people's thoughts. Of course, at first, they're at odds about being together intimately, but they soon realize that they truly love one another & no matter what happens their desire to be together forever isn't going to disappear.

There is ordinary drama too. Drama you would see in any romance. Fortunately for us, it is never blown out of proportions. It's simple things that happen in our every day lives and always results in a nice romantic moment. Things like other people flirting with Mamiya. This drama actual contributes to the plot. It serves as a way for us to see just how much they love each other. Their love being so strong, they just seem like a typical normal couple without any special circumstances. That is all they could ever ask for, to be seen as people who simply love each other.

The art is just good. That's all there is to it. The characters are nicely drawn and so are the backgrounds. There's really nothing else to say.

Our 2 main protagonists are some of the best romance characters I've ever seen.

First, we have Miyoshi. He's a kind guy who is always concerned about Mamiya's well being, but he's not a perfect prince. He gets jealous too, but he doesn't become some over possessive psychopath. He actually apologizes every time, he feels like he did something wrong. He's merely a guy who's worried about would could happen to the person he most holds dear. When he gets jealous, you actually feel sympathy for him. In short, he's a great guy who has flaws but cute ones at that.

Next, we have Mamiya. Despite previously being a guy, Mamiya is currently nothing short of adorable. In a way, it's actually good that he was originally a guy because she retained the strength of a man. She's not some girl who cries all the time and lets guys step all over her. She's strong willed, knows how to fight, and has a soft side. Strong heroines who have a feminine side are the best heroines.

Kanojo ni Naru Hi is one of the greatest romance manga I have ever had the pleasure of readng. Everything about it is just right. The way they go about a gender bender plot, the messages they want to get across, the very satisfying romance, the realistic drama, & the likable characters who despite being flawed never came off as annoying even once. You will not regret reading this manga. If you're not a fan of gender benders, this manga will surely make you see it in a new light.

Well, that was an interesting manga. I went in expecting a simple shoujo story about a student who presented as male but decided not to be a male anymore and instead live her life as a woman from now on. I found this on a recommendation after reading Boku to Kanojo no XXX and I figured since I was in a little bit of a mood to read more manga, I decided to give this a shot.

I didn’t expect this to have a sci-fi angle but it’s an interesting way of doing it. Apparently, in this society, there’s a fixed amount of men and women. ... If there’s too many men, there’s an occurrence known as “emergence”. This is common with animals in the wild so it’s a little interesting that the author decided to use this angle to explain the sudden change in gender between male and female without something disrespectful.

Miyoshi, our main narrator, explained to us that sometimes it does happen – usually to younger boys as it was easier to do so. However, it’s pretty rare that an older male would go through it, but there’s a higher mortality rate because of it.

Naturally, this happens to his best friend, Mamiya. After a trip to the hospital, he comes back as a she – although her name doesn’t change, Miyoshi’s attitude does. Miyoshi is really unsure about his feelings because he knows Mamiya is his best guy friend – he’s struggling with dealing a female version of Mamiya. He seems to want to treat her like any other girls but he also has something called gynophobia, or fear of women. Coupled with the sudden emergence and the fact that the now female Mamiya is showing off her body to the other male students and is actually quite prideful of her female body, Miyoshi wonders if he’s falling in love because she’s a woman or if he had always had these feelings towards his best friend or could he trying to get over his gynophobia.

Mamiya actually takes initiative towards Miyoshi and, in her mind, tries to help him “cure” his gynophobia but in the end, Miyoshi starts pushing her away. Eventually, the two realize they do have feelings for each other but it’s not because of the fact that Mamiya’s gender changed.

Oh, no that matters but not in the way you’d think! When I mentioned that Mamiya is prideful of her female body, I don’t mean she’s sleeping around with men or purposefully showing off herself in a “slutty” matter. It’s a kind of pride that most women envy each other for – the quiet pride that she’s not ashamed of her body and she’s proud.

But Miyoshi is still very much a traditional man in the sense that he thinks that Mamiya shouldn’t be showing off like that and then, once again, considers his feelings for her.

For 5 short chapters, this was actually really interesting. It didn’t feel forced but it did feel a little rushed here and there.

There was a situation that, and this also happens sometimes, that the sudden change from male to female for the teen was going to be hard. We actually get a glimpse of Mamiya’s past and we see why she feels that she’s not good enough for her father – who’s gotten busy with work (but she can’t help but worry if her father sees her mother who had committed infidelity and just left the family one day); why she strives so hard to be good at everything (“Because maybe she’ll come back if I do good…”); and just Miyoshi’s reaction to her body even though he has gynophobia. Not only that, the sudden change from male to female has put them on edge because of a combination of their raging hormones and personal issues with the situation.

I actually felt I could relate to this in some way but, of course, not completely. This isn’t my story to be told and it’d be unfair of me to take that away to those, especially, trans teenagers who may have read this one shot and felt for Mamiya. I really liked how this manga handled this kind of situation: they treat emergence as something that’s normal but there are a lot of people who seems to find it “disgusting”.

It’s really easy to find parallels to the real world with some of the real world issues that’s going on – not just in the United States but all over the world.

And in the end, the two realize that, no matter what gender they are, they love each other. Mamiya admitted that as she grew up, she pushed people further and further away only because of her issues with her mother but Miyoshi effortlessly climbed that wall and saw through her. Even as the two grew up, Miyoshi saw things of Mamiya that no one ever saw but never really questioned it – after all, sometimes friends need to cry and not be questioned why.

Miyoshi realized this after he realized that the opposite was also true: Mamiya saw things about Miyoshi no one really knows, or care to know. There was a girl who tried to date Miyoshi but he was more concerned about Mamiya’s state of mind as she adjusted to her new body. He even rejected the girl! Not only that, he even scolded himself for falling in love with her only until after she’d turned into a female. I’m not sure if I’m remembering correctly, but I think he even told her that – that’s why he was avoiding her.

Sadly, Mamiya couldn’t handle her body and the soul-crushing thoughts that maybe Miyoshi didn’t really love her; that Miyoshi only loved her because of her new body. There was an instance where Mamiya tried to have sex with him but he told her to stop. He didn’t want to have sex under the guise of lust – he wanted to do it for love.

Okay, maybe he meant with her in particular but you know how these shoujo manga are. She then became a cocoon for 5 years before she was able to stabilize herself.

Yeah, the cocoon came out of nowhere but it didn’t completely throw me off only because it makes sense if you understand mitosis. I’ve read and seen weirder. It was rather sweet that even during that time, and before she turned into a cocoon, Miyoshi would visit her literally every day for 5 straight years. Every time someone would try to go out with him, he would refuse. Why? Because he’s so infinitely loyal to his Mamiya.

I want to think the cocoon is a (not-so-subtle) symbol of the treatments and possible sex change a trans person might go through – as it does take years to accomplish but I’m going to stop there. All this story to me is a nice story about two best friends falling in love, no, realizing their love for each other after a huge change happened to one of them. No matter what, love sees no gender and these two aren’t an exception to that rule. This isn’t the story about a man emerging to a woman – this is about an emergence of love between two people.

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.

[ 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.

*Some spoilers, be advised*

Story: 6/10

The premise of this manga is almost irresistible for someone like me, who is part of the LGBT community. In a world where the male-female ratio is equal, when there is an imbalance, a person will ‘emerge’. That is to say, a person will change from one gender to the other, on a chromosomal level. I couldn’t wait to read this when I heard about it. I wanted to see the impact that such a change would have on psyche, but it barely delved into that aspect of the story. If you are expecting a deeply meaningful, psychological manga with ... elements of romance mixed in due to this premise, you’ll be sadly disappointed.

In short, this is just a romance, pure and simple and it does not focus on the problem of ‘emergence’ as a form of psychological or emotional trauma for the characters. It’s a love story where it happens that one of the main characters happens to have been a male and the best friends Neo (was male but is now female) and Miyoshi fall in love after Neo’s emergence.

While it does deal with gender differences and questions relating to being able to love someone despite gender, it’s very…shall we say shallow? It also tends to be very stereotypical, which isn’t surprising given that this is from Japan. Still, it’s stereotypical enough to make me cringe on several occasions. I was hoping for more, but I did not find it in this. That is not to say, however, that I did not enjoy it as a whole, because I did. I simply wish it had been done better.

Art: 8/10

The art was very eye-catching, and is completely my style of artwork. While I’ve definitely seen better, I have nothing bad to say for the art.


Character: 5/10

This is where the realism of the concept of emergence falls apart: the characters. While there are scenes that show discrimination for those who ‘emerge’ the characters themselves never seem to have the slightest problem with it. It’s completely accepted by everyone, which is very hard to believe. In this day and age, people have plenty of phobias regarding Transgender issues and it’s hard for many friends and families to accept because…well people generally don’t understand it. Yet in this manga, everyone (of import) is perfectly fine with the 17 year old boy suddenly becoming a girl, even the person in question. The father is fine with it, the step-mother, the little sister, the love-interest’s family, friends at school, etc…they even immediately switch to using the female pronouns, something that people even today have problems doing that easily.

The only one who really seems to show any since of having problems dealing with the change is the love interest, which I feel is a very missed opportunity. It does mention that the Main Character, Neo, didn’t want to change, but we never really see that internal struggle. If we had, the manga greatly would have benefitted from it. Instead, it’s mostly just hinted at and never really delved into too deeply, which was a very missed chance for character growth and development. Overall, I found the love interest and best friend, Miyoshi, to be much more developed than any of the other characters. He struggles greatly with the changes in

Enjoyment: 7/10

I did enjoy the manga. It was interesting to read, but it left me feeling…slightly annoyed. There were so many chances for this manga to be an extraordinary feat of perfection, but it never reached that protentional. Instead, the manga focused on things it should not (in my opinion) focused on. Examples:

- When Neo came out, he acted as if he was fine with it. It was mentioned that he hadn’t been okay with it, but we never really see that from Neo’s perspective. We didn’t see that struggle from becoming a female after living happily as a heterosexual male for seventeen years.
- It glosses over Neo’s struggle with fears of whether or not Neo can be loved by Miyoshi, something I thought was interesting, but it was done in a very haphazard way, and resolved way too quickly.
- The manga never mentioned Neo’s thoughts on changing from a heterosexual male to a heterosexual female. If his mind was un-phased by the emergence, there should have been a sexuality issue. While the issue was addressed, it was so brief as to be non-existent. Neo simply comes to the revelation that the only guy he/she could be with is Miyoshi and that’s the end of it. Neo’s change to liking men is briefly explained by the amount of estrogen in his body, but even so it was a weak explanation as lesbians have plenty of estrogen as well, but they don’t suddenly start having sex with men because of it.
- The manga focused too much on both of them getting jealous than it did most other issues, something I thought was irrelevant. Instead of focusing on petty jealousies, there was plenty of other problems the manga could have focused on.
- Neo slept five years of life away, yet the impact that had on his/her psychological wellbeing wasn’t discussed at all. If a person lay in a coma for five year and suddenly woke up, I imagine the person would have a least a bit of trouble grasping that five years had passed without awareness, yet those missing five years didn’t seem to bother Neo in the slightest.
- Too many male/female stereotypes for my taste, which was shown my pretty much everyone in the manga, even by Neo, who should have known better.

I understand that to many, these many seem like petty, minor details, but they are the details which interested me most, and where simply not addressed or not addressed properly, which is a shame. Otherwise, it is a good manga. Once I began reading, I couldn’t stop, and finished it in one day.

Overall: 7/10

I wouldn’t say this manga is a masterpiece, or even that the manga is great. I enjoyed it greatly, and couldn’t stop reading once I began, but there were too many problems for me to ignore because of that. It’s one I might read again, but not one I’d give enormous praise to. Hence, I’m going to rate this as a seven out of ten.

[Spoilers pre-ch.5]

In a world where young boys are forced to have a sex change when there's a decrease in the female population, a male highschool student named Miyoshi Kyousuke found his best friend, Mamiya Nao, had gone under this "emergence."

Sounds pretty decent, something possibly "slice-of-life" like, to deal with a theme like that. But, no, this is absolute trash. If I could give a zero rating, I would.

The story makes me so angry, I had to drop it. It's the typical back and forth of a shoujo manga, where they deny their feelings and whatnot until a good amount of chapters pass. The only good ... aspect in it is that there's a dominant female love interest which is uncommon in shoujo. I don't mind that as much as I mind the fact the author does not know how transgender women work. The story is full of stereotypical aspects of gender and cliche moments. It's like they heard a little bit on them once and then made up how the rest of it works. It had so much potential, but it's as if the author slapped together dot pointed ideas and didn't expand on it.

It starts off normally, and Mamiya faints one day, before being hospitalized for two weeks and suddenly, he's a hot, long haired babe. Now, I'd be okay if the setting was something futuristic, or fantasy based, but it isn't. It's ridiculous as he's turned into a beautiful, petite girl in the span of two weeks, and it's strange as they performed surgery on all of his body rather than his chest and lower regions. It's like his conscious was put into another body, not that he, himself, had changed. The worst part is that his best friend begins falling for him a few days after- Not in the span of months or years- A few days. Once his best friend is some beautiful, hot girl, Miyoshi doesn't think about the morals of the circumstances- He just straight up falls for Mamiya.

They don't even explain the moral or social views on this "emergence" besides this one time that the girls in their grade come up to tell Mamiya to stop acting the way he is around the boys now he's a girl, and that "emergence" is disgusting even though it's part of their world. I don't think the author looked into or thought about much with the gender change.

Mamiya wears a revealing swimsuit and nothing is wrong with his body. No scars, nothing. Yet, despite trans women being unable to have periods unless they have a uterus implanted, he has one. Which is strange because you'd think they want to help women and the birth rate, so why would anyone take a uterus and put it in someone else? Another problem is that women are automatically weaker than men, which is really sexist for a shoujo manga. Marketing a shoujo manga and making it sexist like that is really stupid. To add to that, somehow, Mamiya is weaker than when he was a boy, like as if they rid him of any muscle (Probably to put into his boobs).

Being the perfect woman, he is automatically viewed to the guys as a way to gain sexual access, with no moral understanding or concept to it. They try to jump him to add to the list of cliches in the manga.

Moving on. The art is decent. There's nothing great about it, but there's nothing really bad about it either. It gets a bit unnatural at points, but it's not taking away from the manga, although I feel that the author doesn't know how to draw other poses besides some generic things you'd see in another shoujo manga.

Characters. Oh, boy. There's nothing good about them. The character development tries to exist, but if it does, I have a hard time to see it all the time throughout the manga.

Miyoshi is straight up a plain guy. There's nothing good about him. He's boring and has a phobia of females because some girl rejected him in 2nd grade. This makes him a bit uncomfortable around Mamiya, but not as much because he's his best friend... just a girl now. He starts getting indecent thoughts about the attractive new body of his best friend and falls for that, not for Mamiya himself. He then goes back and forth with jealousy and pretending he doesn't like him, and everyone keeps asking if they're dating now he's a girl. Although Mamiya and his antics cause Miyoshi to quickly get used to some of the girls and somehow become popular among them, it's a fast development that doesn't even get much light as most people would think he could talk to girls normally before they even mention that.

Mamiya, on the other hand, is a boy who toughs things even when it's hard and won't let other people see him vulnerable and upset. It's somehow more appealing when he's a girl. He at first is seen as a cool and collected person, even after the sex change, and eventually his distress about being changed without his consent comes to light, before suddenly disappearing in the next chapter. He is immediately accustomed to being a woman, and acts like his usual self among his guy friends. He drops his guard and it's always Miyoshi to come to the rescue before any of them jump Mamiya. Yet, Mamiya, who was a boy and had the mind of a boy earlier in the manga had disappeared to become a separate character, a more feminine one, who also falls for Miyoshi just because he comforts him in his time of need. He's dominant in some scenes, even going as far to sexually assault Miyoshi, but it's okay because it's not his boy self anymore.

I just didn't overall enjoy this manga. It was poorly constructed, as if the author just needed another manga out in order to earn money. Honestly, I don't know how this got popular enough to get past the first volume. It's as if the author wanted to make a shounen-ai/yaoi series, but was too embarrassed and made this instead.

It's just terrible, and I would not recommend anyone to read unless they want to feel as if they got cancer.

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.

Usually, when it comes to gender bender stories they're preoccupied with turning back into the gender they started with, however, this felt surprisingly refreshing in how quickly the change was accepted (in a way the world they live in helped) and because of that, this felt like a trans story.

In the beginning, you can tell that this was supposed to be very short, like a few chapters at most, so there are some very small inconsistencies to the story when new elements are added, but overall it is really well done and the characters continue to be layered throughout the short 20 chapter run.

The characters ... are the strong point of this series and the reason you should read it. They're adorable and approach their romance in such a human way that it feels like a breeze of fresh air as hot tears roll down your face.

I really appreciated how the series stayed focus and moved the characters forward. It genuinely feels like we got to see a full romance from start to finish. And it was a pleasant surprise to see a few chapters go back in time to when the characters were kids and strengthening their bonds to the point where that you can see how they would have fallen for each other.

Really well done and emotionally tight manga.

SPOILERS AHEAD

holy shit, this was a ride and a half. i have several questions that'll probably never be answered but here goes.

i found this manga quite problematic to read.

it kept throwing this in my face: "you see, nao used to be a guy but is now a girl" i know. i've been reading it from chapter one and you don't need to tell me that every other panel. this was probably why i couldn't think of nao as a girl in the beginning, but later you just realize love can happen without regard for gender and the manga conveyed this idea in the simplest ... and subtlest way possible. which is maybe the only thing i understood from reading this.

in one of the chapters, i got the feeling kyousuke kind of regretted seeing nao transform, like he lost his best friend (male nao) to female nao. after that one chapter, he seemingly has no problem with it anymore. and this had no closure whatsoever.

nao falling in love with kyousuke was a little bit unnatural. if her thoughts were the same as when she was a guy, how did she start seeing her best friend in a romantic way immediately after emergence? this was never answered.

this manga kind of...rewired my brain. i don't know what to think about it, really. it's weird and i wouldn't recommend it to anyone. read only if you're bored and have nothing else to do.

Personally I thought the premise was quite interesting and the romance was cute at times, but there wasn't really much to take home from this story. Every chapter just seems to retread the same path each chapter, someone goes through insecurities and troubles and then the other character fixes it by reassuring them. The story and the characters are only skin deep and it's really hard to feel anything for them.

Despite my rating of 5 I don't think the story is bad, it's just very mediocre and bland. There was a lot of room for conflict and for the author to delve into the emotional ... experiences of what someone might be experiencing in such a situation. However, they rather just brush that all aside and just have some character say some pretty word and smile and that somehow always fixes the problem. It's just boring.

The story is really good. I liked the interactions between both MCs, the way they grew throughout the manga, and I also appreciate having Mamiya's point of view in some situations, even though most of the time we are in Miyoshi's head. I really liked the romance in this, but I wasn't expecting so much drama.
I'll just say this: I like the drama until the chapters 16-19, where I completely hated any drama that popped up. Those 4 chapters really annoyed me not only because of the over-the-top or unnecessary drama, but also because of the constant flashbacks and transitions. Anyways, the last chapter ... was good at least.
One more thing, I really don't mind that the manga didn't go deep in the switching gender and emergence stuff. I came here for the romance, and I got what I wanted.

I liked the characters. Mamiya and Miyoshi have nice and distinct personalities, and some of the other side characters were cool, even though they really don't matter much (except maybe for Sakura and both MCs families).

I liked the art. I think it was nice, but this was my first manga so I don't really know. (there's some nudity as well)

So... I believe any romance lover like myself will like this, but if you aren't... well, I don't know, try it and see if the plot interests you.
If you are here and expect the manga to go deep in the switching gender stuff... GO BACK!!!... or just remove those expectations.

The pacing is a little fast and choppy in some areas, and it kind of ruins the story some times, but other than that i would still recommend reading this. Unlike most gender benders this story delves deep into the relationship between the main characters. Their relationship starts very early on and the rest of the manga is about their problems and over coming them together. And I know Im repeating myself but they do go a lot farther in their relationship compared to other gender bender manga.

Mc - 6/10
Side characters - 6/10
Story/Plot - 6/10
Consistent Chapters 6/10 (I read it after it was done so ... yeah)
Translations - 9/10
Overall portrayal of emotions and Feelings - 7/10
Art - 9/10
Overall - 7