A body swap story that takes things a bit more seriously than usual.
The characters swap when they're very young, and can't figure out how to switch back, leading them to go through puberty in each others' bodies and move onto middle and then high school.
Body swapping is obviously a concept ripe for exploration of varying aspects of the human condition, something for which it is basically never actually used. This series gets closer than usual, but stops just short of actually get too deep or introspective.
Still, it's pretty good, I think. The characters have a pretty believable "friends who fight all the
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Sep 20, 2024
This a pretty good series, but it does take a bit to hit its stride.
If you were to stop after twenty or so chapters, you'd be left with the impression that this manga is entirely about a self-important chick trying to get a simp-resistant dude to start simping over her on principal, all while she refuses to admit she actually likes him. And while you wouldn't necessarily be wrong, there's quite a bit more to it than that- although it takes a bit longer to establish as much. By 40 chapters things are a bit more clear. What's interesting about this series is that ... 
Nov 22, 2023
Yancha Gal no Anjou-san
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For your bog-standard pretty girl-teases-nerd format, this is probably about as good as it can get. There's actual progress, and you actually get to see the fruits of that progress, which is nice and all-too-uncommon. Also the chick isn't a raging sadistic sociopath like Nagatoro, which is also nice. The real secret sauce, I think, is that the teasing isn't the main focus, here- their relationship is. Dude doesn't get caught up in trying to "win," and girl never puts her own pride or stubbornness above conveying her feelings. The progress of the relationship is steady and (relatively) believable- the series takes its time to
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