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Houkago Hokenshitsu is very underdeveloped for a manga about an intersex character. You can tell that not a lot of research was made into this; filled with VERY bad representation for women and lgbt people that it made my blood boil to continue this. The idea for the plot was very interesting, but the Characterization and the really bad representation just couldn't do it for me. Plus, there's something very unsettling about the setting of the manga that I can't just exactly point through. It didn't feel like it was taking place in the real world and just felt, creepy.

Sou and Kureha were VERY annoying ... as characters, and as with the mc, I just couldn't find them to be well written enough. Sou especially just really pissed me off with all of the things he did with MC. Seeing MC still falling for him even though he did such terrible things to them only cuz of their "female instincts" just pissed me off.

What I disliked the most though, was the MC's sexuality getting in the way of their gender identity. Apparently, them falling for a man makes them a "female" and them falling for a woman makes them a "man". You being attracted to said gender has NOTHING to do with your gender. Also, MC only wanted to Identify as male only because men are considered stronger in society and women are considered weak. I don't really mind them having that mindset at the start of the story but seeing upon the story not doing anything to refute those very sexist and misogynistic claims just wasn't doing it for me.

The boxer guy didn’t just assault his friend and take advantage of her feelings and got away with it easily without it being mentioned in the story later on at all.

Tsugu is the only character in the entire manga that I actually liked, She’s very energetic and bright and a really cute character overall. The baker boy was pretty okay, the other two are the only ones I have problems with. The glasses girl didn’t have any personality whatsoever, and we pretty much weren’t really able to see much of her character. The boxer guy, well, I dislike everything about him. He had no growth ... and didn’t at all get to understand the consequences of his actions. If only he did, the series would’ve been a lot more powerful and better.