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Me, several dozens chapters into a manga literally called Chichi Chichi and so far has had incest, rape as comedy, age play, hypnosis, an adult male character who looks like a child and is explicitly said to look like one, and the line "I was suddenly wearing a diaper, and your sister was insulting me while giving me a titty fuck" : maybe manga bad?

Without the rape as comedy, incest, and a main character that is pretty much the male equivalent of a 100 year demon who looks like a young girl, I could get it as an OK harem hentai manga where the plot ... never really goes anywhere outside of adding more women for the main character to have sex with

Buy you know, that stuff

It is hard to write about why I dislike this manga without spoilering the ending too much.

Outside of the ending, it is mostly a normal crossdressing manga where the protagonist thinks the crossdresser is extremely cute but doesn't want to admit it. This is also true of manga where the crossdresser character is more accurately described as a trans woman but nobody in the manga seems to have ever heard of trans people. If Boy Skirt did not have the ending it did, it would be an OK if unoriginal guy falls for crossdresser manga.

Usually in this sort of manga, the protagonist realizes they ... romantically love the crossdresser regardless of gender or decide they are too sexually incompatible to be romantic partners. This manga takes a much worst third option that is much more frustrating than either of those two options despite being pretty similar to both them. The outcome does not feel like a natural development and goes against the developments in the rest of the story.

The manga was cut short, but I am not sad about it if the content that does exist is any indication. This manga felt like it was made on a bet to see who could make the most cis heteronormative manga.

You already have the "girly boy turned into a girl and boyish girl turned into a boy" cliche, but the manga makes it positively offensive by having the girl turned into a boy be clearly and continually stressed by it and the manga just treating it as wacky fun. Depicting gender dysphoria as just silly comedy is one of the more annoying things about ... much gender TF manga, but at least most of them suggest that the characters actually want to be a different gender or pretty much outright say girls that aren't stereotypically feminine aren't as much real women as those who are.

The art is fine but everything else made me hate this manga.

This manga is a storm of offensive cliches and an awful protagonist that is vastly worse than the creator thinks he is.

Even for 2002, the treatment of the trans woman character is complete garbage. The story takes the extremely offensive "...but it is gay to want to romance her," a protagonist who should be the villain, one dimensional characters, and various other standard crossdressing/trans manga written by cis people cliches and blends them into a disgusting slurry.

Even by the standards of a lot of similar manga, the manga quickly wears out the scenes where the protagonist ogles women like a sex offender.

These types of stories ... are nearly always problematic, but I cannot recommend this manga even for those who like such problematic stories.

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.

The story was pretty good.

Characters generally have motivations that made sense and didn't conflict with what they were doing in the story. I liked most of the characters a lot.

My main problem with some characters were how they were portrayed as not being monsters like the one love interest who is a serial killer. The character became a serial killer for extremely selfish reasons and yet the manga depicts the character as being more just a regular bad boy love interest. While there is plenty of vampire on vampire murder, killing humans is a crime in the setting and they don't need to ... murder to feed themselves.

Vampire rules sometimes feel like they are introduced purely for convenience and not in a way that feels very natural. The protagonist and the main viewpoint character doesn't understand the vampire world well, so it is not a huge issue.

I loved the art. The characters are drawn in a very old fashioned style that has fallen out of favor over the years. I love that style, but I understand a lot of people probably find it off compared to most more modern art styles.

I got a ton of enjoyment out of My Boyfriend Is a Vampire. I never felt bored while reading it all in one day, which is a rarity for me.

I found the story to be poor. The ending feels like it was extremely rushed. More than that, I felt the story didn't make good use of the setting. It is overall a fairly standard revenge story with a twist that feels out of nowhere and leaves a lot of questions unanswered in a very unsatisfying way rather than as something that feels intended not to be answered.

There is the occasional mention of how badly women in the country have it, but it doesn't really deal with that much and is more just in the background of the focus on revenge and as a way ... to show how evil these evil people are. Character motivations never felt like they expanded or developed naturally over the course of the manga instead of quickly getting changed for one reason or another.

The better parts of the story are where the protagonist thinks about more than the mechanics of getting revenge and it doesn't feel like the terribleness of various characters is there to continue to show how terrible the country is well after that had been extremely well established.

The art was good.

I really like this manga. I know it is nothing special and doesn't have much time to develop into much that is special, but it is the sort of thing I would have loved as a kid who didn't know they were trans yet.

The protagonist very much reads like a trans girl. The protagonist uses a glitch to play as a female character in the game and the character is what the protagonist thinks is an idealized version of themself. The story of a person who gets to become a female superhero in the real world and get a girlfriend thanks to playing an ... MMO makes it a wish fulfillment story for me.

Gender transformation manga are normally chock full of very uncomfortable tropes and being only 8 chapters long and cut short usually wouldn't prevent a gender transformation manga from having them. Trans Trans manages to avoid most of them.

Overall, Utopia of Homosexuality was fine except for a few things I had a big problem with which are hard to talk about without giving some idea as to what happens towards the end.

Potential spoilers

Without getting into too much detail, it has some cliches common to two best friends stories I dislike strongly. I don't think any character mentions bisexuality in the story, which makes a change in the relationship of the two main characters at the end of the story sting a lot more.

I much more strongly dislike the feeling throughout much of the story that people who really care about each other ... have to be a couple in a romantic sense. It does a huge disservice to aromantic and asexual people and none of people in the story appear to accept the possibility that friendship can be that deep without being romantic.

Other than that, the story, characters, and art are all fine. Most of the story developments I strongly disliked were towards the end. A lot of the characters had same face syndrome to some extent but overall I didn't have any problems with the art