<warning: I have only read the first volume of the series but I think I have given the manga a fair chance to win me over, and I absolutely refuse to let myself be subjected to such garbage anymore>
This manga is a gender-bender isekai school-life ecchi romance. (no, I'm not kidding). The premise of the story is that the MC (I don't remember the name, and I refuse to read it again to check), a boy, helps a stranger trapped under rubble when his school is hit by a landslide, during his helping he ends up passing out. When he wakes up, he realises
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that he now has a woman's body and is in another world. So basically, the stranger he/she saved was a prince from another world and because he/she was nice to him, he took him/her to his world to change his/her sex because he intends to marry them whether they like it or not. Yes that's the premise I'm not kidding. The premise already is absolutely trash. Even if you set aside the whole "kidnapping you and changing your sex against your will and also basically forcing you to marry me in the near future", the execution is absolutely laughable.
Art:
At first glance (meaning the cover) the art looks nice, like a modern romance style with a bit of old school shojo side to it. Once you dive in though you realise that the art is lazy, uninspired, boring and abolustely asinine. You can also literally tell from the first pages that the MC's face was already drawn like a girl, according to the artist's style: big eyes and round face which got me confused for the first few pages because I thought the MC was a girl. I don't know if the author was too lazy or if it was a conscious decision but yeah. In short the art is pretty bad and inconsistent. The composition and paneling is appalling and the whole manga reeks or unoriginality and complete failure to come up with anything visually interesting.
Plot:
The story is pretty bad, as the premise might have given away. Basically after the first transformation and the getting “isekaied” the MC and the prince go back to the real world and go to high school (talk about original). There’s not that much going on to be honest and what is there is mediocre at best. Basically most of what happens is : MC acts girly makes a mistake (of course) and the prince all cool and rape-y comes in to save them.
Characters:
When you think about ecchi isekai romance, you could say something along the lines of “Yeah the premise is trash but the characters are interesting and well written.”. Well, none of that is to be found here. The characters are absolutely trash. Literally all of them (for the few that are there…) go from eye-rollingly bad to actually infuriating. I’m not the biggest feminist of all times but the manga is basically everything every feminist could ever complain about. There are literally no women in this manga, apart from the gender-bended MC. And that MC is the most boring and vacuous character you could ever imagine. It actually kind of reads like a mix of all the sexist tropes you could imagine. Dumb? You got it. Flustered all the time for no reason? You got it. Incapable to do something right without the help of a man? You got it. Good at stereotypically “feminine” shit like cleaning the dishes, taking care of the house and cooking? You got it. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so pathetic and infuriating. Even with the plethora of trashy sexist “traits” the character literally has no personality. You literally know almost nothing about them, they have no hobbies (apart from cleaning the house, don’t forget the MC is feminine right wink wink), no preference, nothing they really like or dislike. I swear I read some rape hentai that were more respectful to their female protagonists than this shit. The prince I guess is supposed to be dark, mysterious a bit forceful just the way the women reader like it right? If that was the intent it’s completely missed. The prince appears as a maniacal creep, literally forcing his weird fetishes on someone that is unwilling. Most of the time he comes to “save” the MC the only thing I could think was “bro, nobody asked you, go away, you’re creepy as shit.”. The prince at least is shown to have a bit more personality than the MC, with some history about him being the prince and some political backstory bullshit. From what I remember the rest of the cast are male high school NPCs as well as the MC’s dad and brother. The brother is also a bafflingly bad character. The MC disappeared for week (when he/she got isekaied) and when he/she comes back home the brother’s reaction is to be flustered by his brother/sister’s boobs and to quickly turn away to not get aroused. Like wtf, it’s absolutely creepy and weird. He apparently always had a special “feeling” towards his brother but now that the brother is a sister, I guess the power of his peepee is awoken and now he needs to bang her or something I don’t know it’s really bizarre and creepy.
Ecchi/fan service:
Since the art is pretty bad, there aren’t even some nice fan service to enjoy here. Most of the ecchi scenes are super creepy and made me cringe a lot. There is a scene in particular where the MC “accidentally” ends up on top of his/her brother but the paneling and art is so shit that it actually makes no sense at all when you read it. I had to reread the pages three times because I genuinely didn’t understand what was going on. There are some creepy scenes involving the brother finding the MC’s panties and your typical changing room shenanigans. All the fan service is super creepy, very uncomfortable and very cringe inducing.
Overall:
I absolutely hated this title; I think it’s an absolute disgrace and kinda left me creeped out and with an uneasy feeling. The messaging is very blatantly sexist and the abysmal writing of the characters made this an unbearable read. If you have the paper version burn it. I can't believe that this has a good score and that people would review this as a 9/10 I literally can't believe it, must be a bug or something.
2/10
May 13, 2020
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