Kanojo ni Naru Hi

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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

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.

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.